Just out (+open access): 'The Material Body: Embodiment, history and archaeology in industrialising England, 1700-1850' eds Lizzy Craig-Atkins & me. A unique collaboration of historians & archaeologists who stepped outside their discipline to study embodiment
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#CfP for our Online Workshop on 'Global Dress and Migration in History' on 29 and 30 Nov, co-org with
Dr Svenja Bethke Arts and Humanities Research Council HyPIR at Leicester #migrantdressarchive #fashionhistory #dresshistory #migration #globalhistory #twitterstorians Deadline 21 June ⎜Details👇Please apply and RT

News of a new PhD opportunity at ARU - come work with me and Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse on a fantastic collection of some c. 1,000 workhouse objects!

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Very much looking forward to giving an online Thread Talk for the Embroiderers' Guild on Saturday at 2pm, looking at the history of the smock frock and the 19th century women who made them. Please join us if you can - details at embroiderersguild.com/thread-talks/

I am delighted to share a Call for Articles for a special issue of the 'Journal of Historical Research in Marketing' that I am editing focusing on clothing and fashion. Please share with your networks - more information here: emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-pape…

Bunching Scilly Whites, St Mary's, 1900. The narcissi were prepared in large sheds, the men doing the trimming and boxing, the women the bunching. Growing spring flowers was the largest industry on the Scillies until tourism eventually overtook it.

In 1807, the ship Anne Marie was captured by the British Navy while sailing from the Faroe Islands to Denmark. Five packages and two hundred letters were confiscated from the ship and survived, still sealed, in the Prize Papers. What’s inside? Read below to find out. /1

Memorial to General Rowland 'Daddy' Hill, 1st Viscount Hill, who fought in the Napoleonic Wars. He was born in Hawkstone Hall #OTD 1772. St Mary's Magdalene Church, Hadnall #Shropshire
#AnimalsInChurches #HorseSense #AnimalsInChurches Hour

Posted this on Insta but love it so much I gotta post it here, too. This is an embroidery (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) of a sailor’s return to his sweetheart from the second half of the 19th century. It’s a sailor’s woolwork or “woolie,” stitched by a sailor during his downtime

Today is Plough Monday, by tradition the start of the farming year, a day of significance in every rural community. This 1849 headstone for 21 year old Samuel Croft at Blyford, Suffolk has a relief of horses unharnessed from the plough, a symbol of his labours being over.

From an advertisement for D.H.Evans's Oxford Street Department Store, Christmas gifts for servants, a nice few yards of suitable fabric to make a new uniform dress Killerton swatches as a magazine supplement, about 1900-1910

For the smock lovers in your life, there is 30% off my book, until midnight tonight, on the Bloomsbury website ⬇️
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Workers at the Barnsley factory of William Sugden and Sons, clothing manufacturers, now part the Wakefield Shirt Group.

👔CALL FOR PAPERS! 👗All political fashion enthusiasts! Check out this CFP for a one-day symposium at De Montfort University on political dress and fashion. Due date 15th December. Contact Dr Elisabeth Gernerd for details!

‘A Single to Sydney’ - a tale of London’s women convicts
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Bought this photo recently of house builders. Think this is around 1910 but what fascinates me the most is the old chap 3rd from right whose clothing is more 1870s/1880s rather than 1900s/1910s. When dating pictures it’s always important to remember people kept clothes for years

Happy Easter everyone. Hope you're having a lovely time. Here are Mr and Mrs Miles, of Dudgeley Mill, All Stretton, ca. 1880. This man wears his smock with pride and confidence, as should we all [PH/S/14/1/143] #shropshiresmock #greatsmockswearersofhistory

We’re very excited to announce that Dutchtextiletrade.org is now live, as is our special issue of jhna.org. This debuts our first 25 years of data and will expand as the dataset grows Dr. Marsely Kehoe Carrie Anderson

I am thrilled to announce our 'Stitches that Speak' online seminar series that I am co-organising with Dr Serena Dyer to follow on from our Symposium on 20th April! All talks will be online via Teams. Email or DM for links! 🪡🧵 #dresshistory