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John Bright Collection @jbrightcollection.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

In their free time, our assistant curators Sage & Annie have come up with an exciting project. Follow them and their collaborators on instagram at @uncovering.dressmakers to learn more! #19thcenturydressmaking #whomademyclothes #historyofdress #historyoffashion #victorianfashion #vintagelabels

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wraith 👻 @morsdilectio.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

this 1887 painting featuring turkish women in bustles and hijab has made my day. 'women in travel' by osman hamdi bey.

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Dr Sally Tuckett @sallytuckett.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Transatlantic Threads is now available for preorder! edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-transat... Use code NEW30 for 30% discount. @edinburghup.bsky.social Image: David Allan (1744-1796) thought to be one of earliest known portraits of a black woman by a Scottish artist. Nationalgalleries.org

Book cover with blue border and white font that reads “Transatlantic Threads: Scottish linen and society c.1707-1780” by Sally Tuckett. The image is a watercolour sketch of a woman standing barefoot on a cobbled street. She wears a blue petticoat and white gown, with a blue and white checked apron.

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Dr Fern Riddell @drfernriddell.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Delighted to see that Queen Victoria’s Journals are back up and running, and freely accessible for everyone in the UK once more: www.proquest.com/qvj/?account...

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Explore millions of resources from scholarly journals, books, newspapers, videos and more, on the ProQuest Platform.

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chertseymuseum.bsky.social @chertseymuseum.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

#FridayFrocks #SpringIntoAction: Here’s a garment that would be very suitable for the lovely warm weather we’re currently experiencing here in the UK. This wonderful pair of cotton Beach pyjamas date from c.1933 – 1938.

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

I'm recovering from a breakdown at the moment and trying to get back on my feet with my workshops & Etsy. If you could maybe RT my new creative & mental health workshop (previous few posts today,Friday 25th) it would help so much to show it to a few more eyes. I'd really appreciate it, thankyou 🌿

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Kate Atherley @kateatherley.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

New online class coming this spring: Introduction to Shawl Knitting, with Rowan Connect. A four-week class designed for lace novices, this dives deep into everything you need to know to be confident with a lace project. Sessions are recorded for later viewing. www.rowanconnect.net/introduction... 🧶

A picture of a blue handknit lace shawl, with text superimposed "Introduction to Shawl Knitting with Kate Atherley".

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John Bright Collection @jbrightcollection.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Cheerful stripes swing gracefully as a lady turns towards her friend in a plate from 1831 'La Mode', illustrating how our bodice might have looked before its skirt was cut off. www.thejohnbrightcollection.co.uk/costume/bodice-and-inner-sleeve-supports-2/#1830sfashion #1830sdress #costumehistory

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Matthew McCormack @historymatt.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Next week, I'll be having a chat about my new book with @serenadyer.bsky.social as part of the Northampton-Leicester @histassoc.bsky.social programme. 6pm on 11 March. It's online and free to attend - sign up below: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...

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In Conversation: Shoes and the Georgian Man

Serena Dyer talks with Matthew McCormack about his new book, Shoes and the Georgian Man, published by Bloomsbury in January 2025.

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Tiny treasures on my feed in the week we discovered tiny ladies’ magazines in a Victorian purse

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Diane Watt @dianewatt.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Any one on here know anybody working on Juliana Berners, The Book of St Albans? Or Sopwell Priory? Burrell Collection falconry furniture to grab your attention.

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Imperfect Product @imperfectproduct.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

GoMA on the radio tonight! @weare1of100.bsky.social

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 07/02/2025

Tomorrow is #NationalSnowdropDay! We’ll be celebrating these iconic heralds of spring all day. Wondering how to look after these little bulbs, or where you can see them in the UK? Check out our feed tomorrow, where we’ll also be reposting your snowdrop pics, so don’t forget to tag us! 📸James Beck

A drift of snowdrops in a wood. The camera is at knee level, with showing thousands of snowdrops among trees.

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Glasgow Women's Library @womenslibrary.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hello to all of our new followers! Glasgow Women’s Library offers: Books📚 Museum Collections 🕰 Archive Collections 📜 Public Events 🎟 Learning Opportunities 📝 Exhibitions 🔲 Adult Literacy & Numeracy 💭 A safe space ❤️ A warm welcome 🤗 A cup of tea ☕️ And so, so much more 🗣👩‍🎨📽🎶 #LibrariesMatter

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National Library of Scotland @natlibscot.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Welcome to the National Library of Scotland's Bluesky account! We're chuffed to be joining you all here 🦋 Lets run through some introductions!

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

📢 Calling all historians and researchers! The Women's History Network is now accepting abstracts for its 33rd Annual Conference, themed "Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums, and Personal Collections." More info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GLAM

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WHN Annual Conference 2025, Call for Papers

First Call for Papers Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Pe…

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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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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

For #TextileTuesday here’s a lovely #tapestry c1500 depicting #January in #BurrellCollection showing a wealthy family host a guest - who they’ve sat in the best seat next to the fire. It was lent by Mrs Burrell to the 1901 Glasgow International Exhibition #textilehistory

Woven tapestry with an interior scene on the left; a visitor ‘Jenuari’ in a fur-lined gown sits at a table in front of a large fire and is served food and drink by a wealthy family, a mille-fleur tapestry in background, a dog in the foreground. On the right an exterior scene with a man riding a horse, another collecting firewood, and five men playing hockey in the foreground.

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Dr Sarah Scaturro @saruzzza.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

We’ve got five stellar paid internship opportunities in our conservation department, varied levels from undergraduate/pre-program to graduate, working with objects, paintings, or frames. recruiting.ultipro.com/CLE1004CMA/J...

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I've opened my Etsy shop for: 🌿botanical calendars to arrive in Jan 🐚a few of my limited edition art prints 🪶jewellery orders for🌲(UK only) 🌸vouchers for my jewellery designs(rest of world) My prints & calendars are designed using recent research to improve mental health: etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

My photo of a botanical collection -feathers, seedheads, pebbles, shells-my best selling design

A sterling silver necklace whose pendant is a recycled silver cast of a jay feather

My photo of flowers I grew and others I found at a local honesty florist in Wicken. Dark background, bight rainbow colours in the flowers

The 12 botanical photos in my 2025 botanical calendar

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Heading to work Christmas dinner & wishing I had something as warm and festive as this red silk velvet dolman in #GlasgowMuseums collection to wear on the freezing bus

Side view of a woman’s mantle or dolman in red silk velvet plush trimmed with brown marabou feathers. Wide sleeve flared from elbow. Shaped and cut to go over a small bustle.

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Paula @pjreyuk.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If you’re struggling to keep warm at home or just struggling with the dark winter days and are in Renfrewshire, there’s lot of Winter connections groups on this winter for free www.renfrewshire.gov.uk/article/1300...

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Find your nearest Winter Connections space - Renfrewshire Website

Winter Connections spaces and events in Renfrewshire.

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Karie Ghoulish 👻 @kariebookish.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

A very chilly day in Glasgow. If you are struggling to stay warm, remember that Glasgow Libraries have the heating on and offer free hot drinks. No need for a library card to snuggle up on a seat.

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Greg Jenner (Historian) @gregjenner.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It’s that special time of year where I tell you about 19th century Christmas cards being so batshit weird! Here’s a podcast I did with Dr Ferren Gipson - expect clowns assaulting cops, polar bears savaging men, giant wasps attacking kids, and more weird animal fun! artuk.org/discover/sto...

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Here’s a couple of details of two of the panels with ‘HA’ on the left and #HenryVIII’s title on the right “King of England and France, Lord of Ireland, and Head of the Church of England’ #Wolfhall #16thC

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

For this week’s #Tudor Sunday is a stunning bed head in #BurrellCollection made for #HenryVIII and his fourth wife #AnneofCleves

An oak bedhead with carved, painted and gilded decoration. The central panel has an inscription describing Henry as King of England and France, Lord of Ireland, and Head of the Church of England, and the date ‘1539’. The left-hand panel bears the Royal motto ‘DIEU ET MON DROIT’ (‘God and my Right’); the right-hand panel the ‘AH’ monogram for Anne and Henry.

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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Centuries ago, many astronomical books included moving parts to help readers interpret the world around them. This biscuit recreates a diagram from Sacrobosco’s ‘De Sphaera’ (c.1550). It could be used to calculate the changing length of daylight hours through the year. 🍪

Two biscuits stacked on top of one another, designed to look like a rotating diagram from an early modern astronomical book. The lower biscuit is circular and features a series of horizontal lines and tiny numbers in an early modern font. The top biscuit is roughly in the shape of boat: the 'mast' area reads 'zenith'; the main body of the shape features tiny figures in historical dress holding astronomical instruments and a Latin motto reading 'Nulla dies sine linea'.

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

For #TextileTuesday here’s another #Tudor textile from the Kimberley collection now in #BurrellCollection - an embroidered panel, possibly headcloth for a bed as there’s a matching valance, in red wool mockado velvet, appliquéd black velvet floral motifs and yellow embroidery #16thC #TextileHistory

Embroidered panel for a bed headcloth in crimson red linen and wool mockado woven with linen warps and wefts and wool pile, decorated with black silk solid cut pile velvet appliqué motifs embroidered in yellow silk thread and cords worked in straight, fly and couched filing stitches, French knots and couching in an arabesque design depicting flowers, including aquilegia, carnations, daffodils and roses. Plain crimson red wool velvet or mockado panel below. Embroidered and plain panels mounted on larger linen panel with narrow border along top and deeper border along bottom.

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Continuing my #Tudor Sunday posts here’s a lovely heraldic stained glass showing the arms of #HenryVIII impaled with those of #JaneSeymour - one of four stained glass shields with both their arms in the #BurrellCollection #16thC

The Royal coat of arms of Henry VIII with three leopards quartered with three fleur de lys on the left and the Seymour arms on the right with a wreath with red and white roses and initials HR

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Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

It's happening, I'm trying to make #WednesdayWallpaper a thing. And starting off strong with William Morris's "Trellis", 1862 (designed)/1864(manufactured) - with birds by Philip Webb. Distemper color on paper, printed by Jeffrey & Co. V&A E.452-1919 collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O78220/...

A section of William Morris's "Trellis" wallpaper. A blue backgrounded pattern of a green trellis and fat green rose stems, with green leaves and pink blooms. Black-and-yellow birds perch on the trellis. There are beetles in some of the rose blooms and small bugs flying in front of the background sections.

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Fabulous Fashion! @fabulousfashion.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Girl’s bonnet with original box 1852 Source FIDM, fidmmuseum.pastperfe... #victorianfashion #fashionhistory

Yellow bonnet mounted on a faceless head dummy.

The outside of the bonnet is yellow and has a brim going around the face, tied together with a ribbon bow below chin, the fabric and the ribbon is a lovely contrasting color of robins egg blue. The brim is decorated with smaller bows on each sides at ear level. The backside of the bonnet has some kind of skirting going on, not sure on accurate term, hanging below the flat back cap.

Hat box, paper, bold print, floral on blue background, golden colored flourishes.

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Shirley Wajda @stwajda.bsky.social · 08/01/2022

Covid-19 interrupted the publication of an essay colleagues and I wrote four years ago on the 1920s One-Hour Dress. Finally acquired the images and today submitted everything to be published. Celebrated by taking a long nap. #ImAnOld #FashionHistory #TextileHistory #DIY

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Adrian Streete @profastreete.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Each year, Archives and Special Collections at the University of Glasgow advertises several Fellowships for visiting researchers. The application deadline for 2025 is 6th January. It’s an amazing collection, especially for medievalists and early modernists - apply! www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

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John McCafferty @jdmccafferty.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

August von Sachsen, 1565 Lucas Cranach the Younger (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

For this week’s #TextileTuesday here’s a rather unusual #17thC embroidered panel depicting David and Sheba - particularly fun are the #raisedwork butterfly on the tree, spider walking across the building and turkey in the right border #Textilehistory

Embroidered panel in linen embroidered in light blue, blue, dark blue, light brown, brown, cream, light green, green, dark green, red and yellow silk and metal thread, purl, mica, straw and silver raised and padded work depicting David and Bathsheba, with Bathsheba seated between two female attendants, top right David watches from a balcony, set in landscape with buildings and fruit tree with butterfly and spider. Border with horse, camel, stag, lion, birds, including a turkey, flowers, including aquilegia, borage, carnation, cornflower, daffodil, foxglove, rose and tulip.

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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

For everyone in your life, I mean those in the US and Canada, with academic monographs on their holiday wish lists, Yale UP is running the 30% sale code HOL30 until December 6th. This includes my book, too.

Book cover for Chloe Wigston Smith’s book Novels, Needleworks, Empire, pictured outside the buildings of King’s Manor

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

The valances had been in the Wodehouse family at Kimberley for centuries until they sold them in the early 1930s. The Burrells purchased them in 1933 and - textile conservators may want to look away - displayed them on a tester bed at Hutton Castle in the Scottish borders #textilehistory #embroidery

Valances with HA around the top of a four-poster bed. A smaller embroidery and door on the left. A seventeenth century raised-work mirror and tapestry on the right

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

A detail shows the appliquéd design with ‘HA’ for #HenryVIII and #AnneBoleyn with acorns - a royal emblem - and honeysuckles - one of Anne’s emblems #textilehistory #embroidery #16thC

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Rebecca Quinton @rpzquinton.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Continuing on from last Sunday’s #Tudor theme here is one of a pair of rare surviving valances in the #BurrellCollection made for #HenryVIII and #AnneBoleyn #textilehistory #16thC

A valance in light cream silk taffeta with black cut pile silk velvet appliqué motifs embroidered in red (now faded to pink) with an 'HA' for Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, acorns and honeysuckles, with a fringe along the bottom edge

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Word of the day is ‘librocubicularist’: one who loves nothing better than reading in bed. (Not easy to say, but I’m glad to know it exists).

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A Guide To Regency Dress @austendress.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I would like to announce that I have a third book on Regency dress in the works. *Not* centred on Jane Austen, this one's a general guide to clothing, hair, jewellery and textiles of Britain c. 1795-1820, out October 2025, again with the wonderful @yalebooks.bsky.social. More details as they arrive!

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Simone @monalunasimone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Fashion plate from 1787 depicting the latest Viennese fashion. Journal des Luxes under der Moden. From the collection of the Rijksmuseum. #FashionHistory #18thc #FashionPlateFriday

Young woman dressed in the latest Viennese fashion. She wears a dress with a scalloped hem, striped bodice and skirt. Fichu. Accessories: feathered hat, earrings, fan. Print from the fashion magazine Journal des Luxus und der Moden, published by Friedrich Justin Bertuch and Georg Melchior Kraus, Weimar, 1786-1826. Object number RP-P-2009-2698.

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Simone @monalunasimone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Fashion plate from 1822 depicting a woman wearing a blue redingnote with red trimmings. Costume Parisien. From the collection of Willet-Holthuysen. #FashionHistory #19thc #FashionPlateFriday

Costume Parisien, nr. 2091: Chapeau de bois blanc, garni d'un chiffon de gaze lisse. Redingote-Blouse en toile lustrée garnie de galons de soie. Gibecière de lacets de soie tressés. Object number A 55988.

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Simone @monalunasimone.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Fashionable bonnets depicted in Costume Parisien, 1819. From the collection of Willet-Holthuysen. #FashionHistory #19thc #FashionPlateFriday

Costume Parisien, nr. 1868: 1.Chapeau de pluche. 2.Chapeau de velours simulé, garni en rubans de satin. 3.Chapeaux de satin, garnis en duvet. 4.Chapeau de velours simulé, garni en étoffe chenillée. 5.Chapeau de velours natté. Object number
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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Charles Frederick Worth was partial to referencing the natural world in his lavish textiles. This historically influenced mid #1880s ballgown consists of a voided velvet with arum lily repeating, trimmed with bunches of ribbon and creamy lace, Kerry Taylor Auctions #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Another day, another design for a ballet costume for a vegetable. Today’s special: the radish (pen and ink and watercolour on pencil, V&A)

A drawing of a ballet costume for a radish featuring a crimson radish head and leafy base (with a gesticulating leaf arm)

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