It's hard to overstate the impact of this education. Not only were consumers more informed, but people at home knew how to mend clothing or repurpose things they no longer wore. There was a *culture* of repair, such that people bought and kept things for longer.

Delighted to see my latest article is available on Open Access. ‘The Politics of Pageantry: Royal Tours and Imperial Pomp on the Periphery of Empire.’ Thank you ⁦Diplomacy and Statecraft⁩ for your encouragement and support. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Happy International Women's Day! To celebrate, we are making Caroline Stanford's talk on Eleanor Coade and her London manufactory available to watch here: youtube.com/watch?v=d8w30k… Caroline Stanford

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I’ve just posted possibly the most important thing I’ve written – something I wish I could ask every woman to read. (Link in bio). Like many people, I’m watching Adolescence – and am struck by how online misogyny is so far presented as a young man’s game.

Come and do an MA with us, with this newly launched scholarship:

Frankie pics still missing. Anyone got a lead here?

🧵I've been quiet about something that happened to me while travelling for work this year (largely because I've been receiving counselling since), but I can't shake the worry that this may be happening to other guests at your hotels, @Marriot.

A wonderful start to today’s study day, ‘Multiple Identities: Telling Life Stories Through Objects’ as Kate Kennedy challenges is us to ‘find the whispers’ of past lives behind objects.

Emily Cockayne (UEA) discusses the lives of garments and shines a light on the lives of menders, whose sheer skill (hiding their material interventions) has made their art and lives invisible to us today.

Ok, so in big career news - this very exciting thing is happening. I'll be moving to Denmark for a year after the summer. I can't wait to meet all the other new fellows! aias.au.dk/events/show/ar…

Can anyone help me with these three signatures from 1882, please!

Joan Eardley (1921- 1963) "Flowers by the Wayside", UK painter who was based in Scotland #WomensArt

One of my favourite finds and still something of a mystery. A small hammer or anvil attached to a repurposed file. It’s been suggested it may have been used in gold or silversmithing . #mudlarking #mudlarkingfinds

Please join me on Thursday 5 June at the William Morris Gallery, London E17 for an illustrated talk on the Old Nichol district of late-Victorian London. £10, 7.30pm williammorrisgallery.co.uk/event/william-…

‘The national museum of absolutely everything’: new V&A outpost is an architectural delight theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

I’ll be doing my first-ever London walks for City Lit next month and would be delighted if you’d care to stroll with me. First up, a 2-hour exploration of Whitechapel/Spitalfields and life there in the late-19th-century – on Tuesday 8 July, 11am shorturl.at/pfG0Q 1...

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Penning Poison: neighbours and anonymous Wicked Little Letters youtu.be/Cx7FBzwZO-M?si… via YouTube

I last had time to sew in November. I'm trying to get back into it. I'm bad at faces, so apologies Arifa for my version of the cover of your amazing book (which I loved so much). Rules : I reuse materials I already have / I can't spend longer sewing than I did reading