I don’t want to be the Womenswear Gal. I want to talk about how by the late 19th century, 5 million birds representing 50 species had been killed to put on ladies’ hats and muffs and that’s why doing anything with a native bird species in the US is illegal.

Join me at the end of the month in Ballarat at Sovereign Hill for my talk on The Complicated History of the Corset!

More details here: sovereignhill.com.au/events/history…

Had a great time chatting to ⁦New Books Network 📚⁩ about Shaping Femininity (still counts as new in academic time!). You can listen to it below: newbooksnetwork.com/shaping-femini…

Why are we so comfortable denigrating the creative output of our grandmothers? It may seem insignificant within the context of much more urgent global issues, but in a new piece for Hyperallergic, I argue that it is symptomatic of the systematic devaluation of feminized labor.

Fully funded, 4 yr PhD studentship (AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships Scheme) ‘Disability’ & Stuart Seafarers, 1600-1750' (JOWITT_24HISAHRC) at University of East Anglia & National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. Apply by 9/5/24
jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA920/phd…
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Assistant Lecturer, Gender ans Women’s History job with UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE | 0.5 FTE, fixed term, 1700-present. Looks like a great job for a newly finished PhD or ECR! timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listin…

Delighted to announce that applications are now open for a fully-funded AHRC CDP PhD studentship with me Edinburgh College of Art with V&A on The Extractive Museum: The formation, evolution & dispersal of the Museum of Practical Geology collections, 1835-c.1901 eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ah…

My baby, the Royal School of Needlework Collection and Archive website, is now live! First up are 100 objects that represent the breadth and depth of our holdings. I’ve put my heart and soul into this, as have my wonderful team of volunteers. Do check it out! collections.royal-needlework.org.uk/home

Stuart queens' reproductive bodies were closely scrutinised and managed. Their experiences are at the heart of my open-access article in the current Court Historian, 'Sacred Vessels': Maternity, Infertility and Dynastic Politics at the Stuart Court tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Further proof (if you needed it) that cuts to the arts and humanities are driven by an ideology of ignorance rather than any commitment to 'sound fiscal management' 👇🏽

Thanks Caitlin Cassidy for another insightful and essential piece!

Thank you Alan Lester :) UK friends, I am in London in May for this event at KCL, australian studies centre - love to see any of you that week! Lecture on 17th May, on Bennelong & Phillip, Australian memory, the British imperial past....

Such a privilege to see my NEW ARTICLE on Amazonian biocreativity & 17th-c featherworking in colonial Dutch Brazil published ahead of print in CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY:

👉🏾journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Wenner-Gren Foundation SAPIENS

Excited to announce the cfp for the big culmination of @MakHistDress’s in-person events: a festival of making!
Do send in your proposals for papers, performances, and demonstrations!

Does anyone recognise this town, painted by Gilbert Spencer, probably c. 1920s? The tower of the church (or cathedral?) is quite distinctive.

“Some will doubtlessly cheer the trimming of supposedly ‘low-value’ subject areas. They may be less enthusiastic about the knock-on effect their demise would have on [STEM] subjects, or the wider impact of rapid restructuring … a £130 billion [sector].”

#MaryandGeorge is now out in the US on STARZ 👑 If you’re interested in learning about the real Mary Villiers and the women of the family, have a read of mine and Sarah Bendall article on the The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Had an awesome time talking to Bernadette Banner all about maternity corsetry! If you’ve ever wondered about the who, how and why? Check out the link below!

How Did Pregnancy Corsets Work? (Ft Dr Sarah Bendall) youtu.be/VCuWQ8t3dUI?si…

PhD scholarships in early modern history in Sydney with Katie Barclay

I’ve been lucky to have had early access to this and everyone must read it!! OA until 12 April!!

You're so right Joanna, let's get back to educating the clergy for administrative positions in church and state before it's too late!