The importance of small things was a common theme throughout the Material Culture in the 17C & 18C event last Friday 🌟🌟🌟

We are delighted to announce our final session of the term (and academic year)!! Taking place tomorrow (Tues 28th) in Room 9 of the History faculty, and online! Subscribe for the link: lists.cam.ac.uk/sympa/info/soc…

This catalogue of army regulation medical and surgical field equipment by Savory and Moore dates from the late 19th century.

First visit to the Depot Boijmans Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam and I am totally overwhelmed & hugely impressed. Let’s normalise getting to see the backs of paintings, the undersides of ceramics & glass, and all the amazing conservation and art handling that goes into museum practice!

One of the better 18thc medical cures, put your finger into a cat's ear...

An early example of a breast pump. The glass vacuum cup screws into the cylinder pump for use and has a small release valve to control pressure. There are no manufacturer markings, but it is similar to one shown in S Maw & Sons catalogue of 1866.

An east view of #Edinburgh taken from the Scott Monument shortly after it opened in the 1840s. The watercolour was completed in August, in the year 1847 at 11.45am by artist Joseph Ebsworth. #ForeverEdinburgh #artist #Scotland #art

NEW ESSAY SERIES: The Story No. 1 | Fieldwork – The Linnaean Way | Preparations prior to a Long-distance Journey in the 18th Century (3600 words). ikfoundation.org/itextilis/the-…

Abandoned gem somewhere in France 📷 Julien Harlaut

28 Jun 1793 We got up about 4 o’clock this morning & at 5 got into the Bath Coach… Briton on the top… The Coach only carries 4 inside Passengers. We had a very fat Woman with a Dog & many band boxes, which much incommoded us… About 10… this Evening… got safe & well to Bath.

Happy #WorldChocolateDay! To celebrate we have an engraving of a cocoa plant & insects from Maria Sibylla Merian's insects of Surinam

A 'new-fashioned' printing press from Joseph Moxon's 'Mechanick exercises on the whole art of printing', the first printing manual published in English.

#Miniature #books pt 5: Early printers would make miniature books as a practical challenge to showcase their skills. Apprentices also trained by creating mini books, based on the theory that it would improve their precision and care when printing full-sized volumes. #minibooks

⭐ Free #Edinburgh exhibition ⭐ If you're in town for #EdFringe check out our exhibition Wild & Tame. Exploring animal history from unicorns and mermaids to Charles Darwin and the SuperVet Find out more: rcpe.ac.uk/heritage/wild-…

Channelling spirits of the past with this eerie 19th-century French phrenology snuff box. 💀✨ Find out more about this object on our Collections Database using the item Object Number: 6096.

Dr. Mariana Di Giacomo Thanks to the wonderful Isabela Tapia we now have an Italian translation of the #museum30 prompts!

Enjoying this amazing conference: The Society’s Collections and Research Day 2024 youtube.com/live/8E7t0FFP3… via YouTube, so many fascinating projects and objects on display!

#PancakeDay #ShroveTuesday #MedievalRecipes.

From the archives of All Things Georgian for #WomensHistoryMonth - '18th-century business women - trade cards' - wp.me/p3JTNy-3nA

Super interesting to watch!