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Marlo Avidon

@marloavidon.bsky.social
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Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Thank you so so much for coming Rachel - It was so much fun to meet you and hear about your research!
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Should add that I feel similarly about the far more reasonably priced Liberty x Adidas collab
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
gorgeous gorgeous girls want overpriced morris & co. trainers
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Who will win, my laptop memory or one 50 page word document?
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
@zarakesterton’s incredible pie charts are officially award winning! If you haven’t read her article yet, you must go check it out 💐
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Zara Kesterton @zarakesterton.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Thrilled to have been recognised in this lovely award by @historicaljnl.bsky.social! Huge thanks to @marloavidon.bsky.social for being an excellent camerawoman on a cold and rainy day 💐
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Question for the Restorationists: Does anyone know anything about a particular ‘stocking incident’ that happened c. 1671 that was so indecent that it couldn’t be described in a letter or printed in an 19th century volume of correspondence 👀
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's really happening!
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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A reminder that our first meeting of Lent Term is TONIGHT! You don't want to miss these three wonderful papers!
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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
We are thrilled to share our Lent Termcard 📚 We have some amazing speakers lined up for February and March, so you don't want to miss out - be sure to join our mailing list for further updates and to join us online!
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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
If your New Year's Resolution for 2026 was to submit to the Workshop for the Early Modern Period, you are in luck, as the deadline for our Lent Termcard is this Monday, 5 January! See below for more details!
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Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
We hope everyone had a Happy New Year! Like true early modernists, here is our New Year's Gift to you: a reminder that the deadline to submit to the Symposium is THIS Monday, 5 January!
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Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
There is only one more week to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Court Symposium! We welcome any and all submissions engaging with the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts from various interdisciplinary perspectives. See the attached CFP for further details!
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The symposium is already shaping up to be a fantastic day of interdisciplinary research - You definitely won't want to miss it!
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Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶 We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
RIP Samuel Pepys, you would have loved this announcement 🙏 www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...
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Hollywood’s Cheesiest New Star? Parmigiano Reggiano Reportedly Signed By UTA for Film and TV Placement
The agency will reportedly work with the Parmigiano Reggiano Consortium to get "the king of cheeses" product placement in Hollywood projects.
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
That’s me!
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In case you’re on the fence about checking out my new article on the Evelyn family and their paradoxical attitudes towards contemporary dress, check out the abstract below! Or maybe I can tempt you with some of the wonderful fashion prints showing some of the wacky styles of the period
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England
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Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714 @stuartsymposium.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Beyond excited for this amazing term card! If you’re interested in attending, but can’t make it to Cambridge, get in touch and I can get you added onto our mailing list for all future Teams links!
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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
You still have a few days left to send in your abstracts!
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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Term CFP on the theme 'Defining Environments. ' Abstracts are due on 20 September, and we look forward to reading them! Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I manifested this during the #SHSConf2025 pub quiz @louisebell.bsky.social
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
As always, I had the best time at #SHSConf2025 ❤️ It was an amazing chance to share some of my current research and meet some wonderful scholars! Thank you to all the team at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for facilitating such an enriching conference!
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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Final couple of touches to the ol' powerpoint slides for #shsconf2025 tomorrow. Come along to the Early Modern Networks: Work, Leisure, and Consumption strand to take a trip into the maritime with me, alongside print trade and fashion with @marloavidon.bsky.social and @joesaunders1.bsky.social
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Had an amazing first day at #SHSConf2025 - Was so caught up in the excitement these were the only pictures I managed to take (whoops), but can confirm the Black Country Living History Museum makes the best conference venue EVER!
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Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
I’ve only had a very quick look whilst running to a panel, but how cool a venue is @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for this year’s @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference?! #SHSConf2025
Bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds. Looking down a road there are a row of old buildings on the left side. The one closest is obviously a music shop.Bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds. Small pub called the Elephant and Castle. Red brick work has green, red and yellow tiles on the bottom section of the front of the pub.Bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds. Looking down a road with cables above. There are buildings to the right of the street.A green sign with cream writing on reading: this exhibit is closed for a private function. Sorry.
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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Fantastic roundtable at the #SHSConf2025 on material culture! Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨
Picture of the roundtable at the Social History Society, showing one man introducing the speakers and four people on the right hand side discussing the topic.
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
I realize it's been a long time so figured a Life/PhD Update is slightly overdue! In the last couple months I have: - Finished a second journal article - Completely transcribed and quantified several account books into Excel - Read a lot of letters - Clung onto my sanity
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
I'm really excited to share this fun little piece I wrote for the Society for the History of Children and Youth's Digital Childhoods Blog - I've fallen in love with little shoes and hope you do too! shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...
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The Magic of Children's Shoes - Digital Childhoods
Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children’s clothing survive from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While textiles degra...
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
It’s been a while since I’ve been online (shamelessly been in the trenches transcribing account books) but you don’t want to miss out on another exciting term of WEMP!
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Really thrilled to share the final piece of my Samuel Pepys project. It was a joy to be invited to film in the Pepys Library! Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible. Check it out on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...
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Pepys' Guilty Pleasure
YouTube video by Cambridge University
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
This is almost certainly a Cambridge thing, but I've been asked if I'm named after Christopher Marlowe 3 times in the last 5 days... I must give off Renaissance playwright energy ✍️
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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Cambridge friends - I'll be presenting my research at the Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar next week on 12 February at 5:15 (in the Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall) I would love to see some familiar faces there, along with anyone interested in the lifecycle and dress!✨
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Today’s excuse for a late essay submission… The space bar on their keyboard got stuck. What’s your favorite student excuse?
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Northern Early Modern Network @nemn-network.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
✨We are thrilled to be extending our call for Committee applications until the 18 February ✨ Read below for more information, or DM us for a plain text version. You can apply using the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Please share widely!
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It's really me and my Transkribus procrastination against the world.
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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We are thrilled to release our Lent Term Card and to share the news of our first session next Monday, 3 February! To tune in virtually, be sure to join our mailing list. DM us for more information, and we hope to see you there!
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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
We're kicking off the new term with a bang! Be sure to read this week's fabulous post from Sietske van der Veen 'Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City' Read more on the blog using the link below! doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i...
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Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City
By Sietske van der Veen ( Twitter/X: @SBvanderVeen; Bluesky: @sbvanderveen.bsky.social) The documentary Occupied City (De bezette stad,2023) contrasts everyday life in Amsterdam’s cityscape today, …
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
I humbly ask, no beg, for an academic search engine that consolidates major museum collections into a single searchable database🙏
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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Welcome to the official BlueSky for the Cambridge Doing History in Public Blog - We are a postgraduate run blog attempting to bring accessible and engaging history to the public! You can check out our posts using the link here: doinghistoryinpublic.org
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Doing History in Public
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Northern Early Modern Network @nemn-network.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
With a new account, it is the perfect time to shamelessly plug the fact that we are recuriting new members to join our wonderful Commitee! Read below to find out more and apply using the link here: forms.gle/YopXm3A55Ac7...
We are thrilled to be opening up applications to join the Northern Early Modern Network Committee. The Northern Early Modern Network was originally established to provide a regional network for early modern scholars in Scotland and the north of England. Since its creation, the scope of the NEMN has been extended and includes members from around the world. We help to facilitate connections between postgraduate research students and early career researchers across the United Kingdom and beyond and to provide a hub of information about events, conferences, and resources relevant to early modernists. The Committee consists of an interdisciplinary group of postgraduate researchers from institutions across the UK interested in fostering a collaborative academic community of postgraduate and early career researchers specialising in the Early Modern period. We have previously planned the highly successful NEMN Conference, several series of virtual workshops and training sessions, as well as maintained our website, blog, and newsletter. 
As we look towards the future, we are seeking dynamic, dedicated, and passionate researchers to join our team and collaborate with the current committee to develop and expand the Network. We welcome applications from postgraduate (taught or research based) and ECRs based in the UK for any of our current positions or several potential new roles. We are especially keen to hear from applicants interested in pursuing new opportunities and ideas for the Network, and are open to adjusting or creating new roles to match applicants interests and expertise.
If you are interested in joining the committee, please fill out the following application, attaching a brief Bio/Academic CV, an expression of interest and potential ideas for the Network, and what roles you wish to be considered for. We ask that all applications be submitted by 31 January 2025. If you have any questions, please contact the committee via email at northernearlymodern@gmail.com.
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
A much needed, and iconic catch up with a fellow late 17th -century material culture enthusiast 😍
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Question for the Restoration / Late-Seventeenth century #Skystorians Does anyone have any good reading recommendations on hunting or equestrian culture in England c. 1660-1700, especially under Charles II?
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
What's this? An extended Deadline? You don't want to miss out! Get your abstracts in by the 13th!
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
You still have a whole week to get your abstracts in - You don’t want to miss an exciting term of workshops!
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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
We are thrilled to announce our Lent Call for Papers- If you are interested in submitting a 20 min paper on the theme of 'Exchanging Knowledge,' please send us your abstract by 6 January! Read below for more details or DM us for a plain text version.
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The Workshop for the Early Modern Period (WEMP) invites submissions for papers to be presented during Lent Term (February-March 2025). The theme of this term is Exchanging Knowledge, c. 1450-1800. All current graduate students at the University of Cambridge and any other institutions are encouraged to apply. Possible topics may include but are not restricted to:
 
Methods and sources of knowledge exchange 
Transnational vs. local knowledge
Microhistorical knowledge
Knowledge in trade and commerce
People, knowledge, and writing
Goods and ideas 
Authority and censorship
Boundaries and borders

The workshop provides a forum for graduate students (MPhil/MA and PhD) to present their research on any aspect of early modern history in a friendly and welcoming environment. WEMP aims to provide a platform to present new ideas, receive feedback on your work-in-progress, and gain experience presenting in front of an audience of fellow early modernists. The format consists 
of two twenty-minute papers followed by a joint Q&A, refreshments, 
and the opportunity to mingle and socialise. 

In Michaelmas Term 2024, WEMP will be running fortnightly on
Mondays at 5 pm (UK time). The workshop will also run in a hybrid 
format. Non-Cambridge-based speakers and members of the 
audience will be welcome to join us on Zoom. 
If you do not want to miss any updates, do not forget to 
subscribe to our mailing list:
https://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/workshop-early-modern-period-wemp.

If you are interested in presenting your work, please send a provisional title, an abstract (300 words max.), and a short bio to the convenors at camwemp2024@gmail.com by 6 January 2025
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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Thrilled that my review of the lovely @susannah-lw.bsky.social 's edited volume Floral Culture and the Tudor and Stuart Courts is out now in The Court Historian. You can read my review here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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The Flowering of British Court Culture
Published in The Court Historian (Vol. 29, No. 3, 2024)
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