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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Happy Easter to all who are celebrating today. This season of renewal invites us all to believe in the triumph of light over darkness, life over death, love over hate.

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margaret beaufort fan @tudorhistetc.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

#ElizabethofYork was born #OTD in 1466 and died OTD in 1503. Elizabeth was born to #ElizabethWoodville and #EdwardIV at #Westminster Palace. She had many siblings including the brothers known as ‘The Princes in the Tower.’ 1/

Elizabeth of York (c. 1470, Royal Collection).

Wood funeral effigy of Elizabeth (1503, Westminster Abbey).

2 books on Elizabeth of York.
Left: Elizabeth of York: The Forgotten Tudor Queen - Amy Licence.
Right: Elizabeth of York and the Birth of the Tudor Dynasty: Uniting the Roses - Beverley Adams.

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Brooke Welborn @mantuamaker.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Nothing like historical street art! In Leicester, UK.

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Lizet Kruyff @lizetkruyff.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Vikings arrived there ca 1000 years ago, after all.

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Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

In keeping with the pink fashion theme I hope you enjoy this lovely early 19th century pelisse that belonged to Lady Glenlyon sister-in-law to the 5th Duke of Atholl #dresshistory #Regency #fashion

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King Richard III Visitor Centre @kriiicentre.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

#OTD in 1457, Henry Tudor, later Henry VII and first Tudor monarch, was born at Pembroke Castle, Wales. 90 later in 1547, his son Henry VIII died aged 55 at Whitehall Palace, London, leaving the throne to his nine-year-old son, Edward VI, the first Protestant-raised monarch

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New York Times Opinion @nytopinion.nytimes.com · 23/01/2025

“You can tell what kind of conservative a person is by discovering what year they want to go back to,” our columnist David Brooks writes. “For Trump, it seems to be sometime between 1830 and 1899.”

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Opinion | How Trump Will Fail

The problem with populism is that it doesn’t work.

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:

Histories of fashion, dress, and textiles are not just found in texts, images, and extant objects. The ‘embodied turn’ (Davidson, 2019) has seen scholars, curators and makers alike turn to their needles, dyestuffs, and looms to investigate how making can elucidate on how we understand the garments of the past. Joining the generations of conservators and experimental archaeologists who have employed similar methods, these maker-researchers are employing innovative techniques and practices to consider how retracing the creative processes of the past can reveal new dimensions to historical material knowledge. However, much of this research is difficult to capture and translate into the traditional written formats of the monograph or journal article. It is tacit, felt in the fingers, hands, and body, and challenging to wrangle into a comprehensible written form. Recreative Reflections invites authors to experiment with short-form modes of articulating and communicating their recreative practice approaches to dress and textile history.

We seek short essays of 1,000 words to appear as part of the Recreative Reflections section of the Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library. These may comprise of pieces of reflective writing, autoethnographic studies, or accounts of making projects and the interventions and new knowledge which they exposed. We especially encourage authors to consider the broader value of their recreative work. How, for example, might it feed into understandings of historical bodies, notions of gender, the relationship between bodies and machines, or the temporalities of making.

Reflections should be submitted to Dr Serena Dyer and Dr Sarah Bendall at serena.dyer@dmu.ac.uk by 24th February 2025.

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Brooke Welborn @mantuamaker.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

So many amazing garments to be auctioned from the Barretto Lancaster Collection. Thankful there are so many good photos of every piece! #dresshistory www.kerrytaylorauctions.com/auction/deta...

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NicDaisy @nicdaisy.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

🪡 Unknown. Evening Dress and matching Spencer, c.1820. Blue woven silk with silver floral trellis design. © & collection the V&A musuem #Fashionhistory

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Brooke Welborn @mantuamaker.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Here is my current list of accounts to follow for #dresshistory and #textilehistory go.bsky.app/UFrjFze

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Dr Serena Dyer @serenadyer.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Spent a fabulous day with part of the 18th-century mantua-making dream team. We’re working on an exciting new collaborative making project with Leicestershire Museums Service 🪡

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A reflection on the meaning of America for MLK Day. If you need a reminder of a genuine American hero and what it means to work on behalf of a truly great America. Sunday Musings open.substack.com/pub/dianabut...

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Sunday Musings

Remembering Martin Luther King in the Shadow of Authoritarianism

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Diana Butler Bass @dianabutlerbass.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

A poem for reflection, 01/20/24: "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes. poets.org/poem/let-ame...

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Carolyn Day @carolynaday.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Today in fun with archives — this delightful condemnation of neoclassical dress "They dislike the Ladies Dress which is said to consist of nothing more than Petticoats & Shoulder Straps" #research #archives #18thcentury #neoclassical #dresshistory

Letter that says "They dislike the Ladies Dress which is said to consist of nothing more than Petticoats & Shoulder Straps"

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Some sayings don't change over time: (Rijksmuseum)

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 14/01/2025

Coming up on 7 February, Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University) will give our Medieval Lecture on how women travelled in the medieval world. While our in-person tickets have sold out already, you can still join the lecture online! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1118707587...

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ONLINE:'Dangerous Journeys: Framing women’s movement in the medieval world'

The Royal Historical Society's Medieval Lecture 2025 will be given by Professor Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University).

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Brooke Welborn @mantuamaker.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

“Jesus didn’t come into the world to save individuals from their personal sins or get anybody to heaven. Jesus was born to defeat the powers and principalities that had set themselves up as gods — and who established their kingdoms and empires in place of the Dream of God.”

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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

I don’t know who made this but great job

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Dr Johnson's House @drjohnsonshouse.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Christmastime in Dr Johnson’s life looked slightly different from how we celebrate the festive period today. Read our Writer-in-Residence Sam Moore-Verity's blog post on Georgian Christmas traditions. From Kissing Boughs and Yule Logs to Plough Monday and Twelfth Night Cakes. tinyurl.com/yatttx8w

A print from 1794 of a Twelfth Night celebration, adults and children around a table with a cake.

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Matt Campillo @mcampillo.bsky.social · 15/05/2024

"Our great mistake is that we tie hope to outcome." Cynthia Bourgeault

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NicDaisy @nicdaisy.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

🪡 Pretty in Pink Hooded CApe & Muff, 1780-1810 Handwoven silk fabric in satin weave edged with fur, lining of silk fabric in double-strand weave in the cape and silk twill in the sleeve, intermediate lining of wool batting, silk ribbon, hand stitching. Collection & ©️ National Museum of Norway

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Sarah Bendall @sarahabendall.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Just some trims trim left to go! I’ll be debuting this English gown this Saturday at my “300 Years of Women’s Fashion” workshop 😊

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Brooke Welborn @mantuamaker.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

When you finally find the portrait that calls your name! Portrait of a Lady by Nicholas Gosse, 1821.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Bluesky Users 🚩🚩🚩 DO NOT FALL FOR ENGAGEMENT BAIT 🚩🚩🚩

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