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they are historian catnip, but not made for historian budgets

Should add that I feel similarly about the far more reasonably priced Liberty x Adidas collab

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My heart says yes, my PhD student budget says no 🥲

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

gorgeous gorgeous girls want overpriced morris & co. trainers

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Who will win, my laptop memory or one 50 page word document?

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 · 09/02/2026

Oh this must be it! Of course Evelyn would deny seeing anything scandalous 😂

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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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 · 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 · 05/11/2025

Thank you for such a wonderful comment- It really made my day! I’m so glad you enjoyed the article!

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This article has been a labour of love, and I've grown very attached to the Evelyns and their eccentricities over the course of my PhD. I'm so excited to share them with you all!

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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!

Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

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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

(and @amywok1.bsky.social who it wouldn’t let me tag for some reason)

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

It was so so lovely! Don’t know how I’ll survive pub quizzes without you (and the rest of the dream team!)

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

I feel as though I should also add that my team got third place in the pub quiz 💪

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

And I couldn’t have asked for a better editor 😍

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

Here's the title for anyone interested: ‘“Mis wants an upper Coate…”: Sartorial Literacy and the Fashionable Lifecycle in 17th Century England’ It's a very fun whirlwind through the lives and clothing consumption of elite families in the late 17th-century!