The Modern Venus: Dress, Underwear, and Accessories in the Late 18th-Century Atlantic World. Elisabeth Gernerd. Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2023. 280 pp.; 127 color ills. Cloth £59.50; Paper £27.99; E-boo...

So lovely to read such a great review of The Modern Venus in West 86th! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Lovely to hear a nice review of my book! If anyone is looking for a book review of Venus, Kimberly has one ready to publish! @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social

I’m so glad you liked it, but so bummed that they are being so difficult and presumably AI focused! Book reviews are already a labour of love, they shouldn’t ask for anything unnecessary. I think Venus has already trained AI, so…. But, so pleased you liked it!!! It means so much coming from you!

Teaching prep for my contour students!

📢New resource for members!

Designing a new course? Or, looking for inspiration to update that intro survey? The NACBS website now hosts a syllabus repository. Check it out and add your own!

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✨ Please share ✨ Don’t forget to get your abstracts and bios in for our BSECS (long 18th c.) PGR/ECR conference in Bath on Facades! Details below 👇 #skystorians #18c #19c #17c

A digital collage remixing cultural heritage material related to Black History

Learn to make a digital collage using free software and cultural heritage collections from Europeana. Have fun, boost your digital and creative skills, while exploring vintage artworks and photos! ➡️ bit.ly/3CkQTq3

The book Material Literacy in 18th Century Britain, posed before the King’s Manor building in York.

Hello, new followers! CECS is delighted to share a book giveaway: Material Literacy in 18th c Britain, co-edited by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social (CECS’s new director) and @serenadyer.bsky.social (CECS alum). To enter: reply to our post with your favourite #18thC material object / skill

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.

@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:

Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...

Brilliant! And such a lovely hand.

Reminder: the deadline for the MHS-NEH Long-Term Fellowship is 15 Jan.

Next deadline: 1 February: The New England Regional Fellowship Consortium (NERFC) will award over 25 fellowships in the spring of 2025. Learn more here: www.masshist.org/fellowships/...

Fellowships | The New York Historical Our unique fellowship program provides scholars with deep resources and an intellectual community to develop new research and publications.

Come work with me! Applications for 2025-2026 Fellowships at The New York Historical are due by Feb. 23, including predoctoral and postdoctoral fellowships in the Center for Women's History! www.nyhistory.org/careers/fell...

🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁

We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive

Never mind Charles and Diana mugs, may I introduce you to this plate depicting a tiny-headed Queen Anne with half her nips out (c1702–14)

Fanciers of 17th/18th-century commemorative ceramics, there are lots more to browse 📜 🔨 > www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auctio... #18c

Front cover visual of a book, reproducing a painting of a seated woman in a red dress with a long white apron, sitting and working on some kind of hand craft (weaving or embroidery?) in her lap.

New from @amsterdamupress.bsky.social -

Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, & Material Culture
Ed. @sarahabendall.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social
aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Read the intro (no paywall!) here: assets.ctfassets.net/4wrp2um278k7...

The Mistletoe Muff by Raphael Kirchner, 1915-16, MFA, Boston collections.mfa.org/objects/5546...

A scalloped edged, triangular design for a gentleman's neck handkerchief featuring stylised leaves.

Took advantage of the email drop off to finally add the most recent batch of #C18th patterns onto my website. There are now 269 originally needlework designs freely available on the Lady's Magazine website: ladysmagazine.omeka.net Rather fond of this gentleman's neck handkerchief...

Thrilled that my book, The Modern Venus, won ADH’s best research monograph award! #bookaward #fashionhistory #dresshistory #18thC

Last day for the 30% off Bloomsbury Academic sale! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-ve...

Bath and Beyond: The Social and Cultural World of the Georgian Assembly Room This book re-examines spa and assembly culture as key venues for sociability in the eighteenth century. Focused chiefly on the eighteenth century, this volume looks forward into the nineteenth and ear...

So delighted to have a chapter on the Bath Marriage Mart in this fab volume on Bath. Congrats @hillaryburlock.bsky.social @georgianlords.bsky.social and to the wonderful series editors @profelainechalus.bsky.social @deborahsimonton.bsky.social www.routledge.com/Bath-and-Bey... #skystorians #18c

The Modern Venus From rumps and stays to muffs and handkerchiefs, underwear and accessories were critical components of the 18th-century woman's wardrobe. They not only created…

Happy 1st Birthday, Venus! And 30% off! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/modern-ve...

Hello Bluesky! Did you know that we have 17 bursaries available for the BSECS Annual Conference?

To find out more and apply, please use this form: (forms.office.com/e/ZJAmgxRHLd

Applications close at midnight UK time on 20th November

@bsecs.bsky.social @asecsoffice.bsky.social #18thC

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Disgusting, isn’t it? John Lewis’s shocking Christmas advert is actually about … shopping Where’s the lonely man on the moon? Where’s the plaintive piano ballad sung by a wan Victorian girl? This year’s John Lewis ad is packed with unforgivable sins

Potentially the best review I've ever read! Gonna have to start teaching retail history and consumption just to include it. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

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Saw these absolutely charming drawings by Robert Dighton and Anthony Highmore wandering round Bloomsbury yesterday 😍

📣Out now on #firstview!

Zara Kesterton (@zarakesterton.bsky.social) on 'Artificial Flowers in the Credit Records of an Eighteenth-Century French Fashion Merchant'

#Clothing #Botany #Knowledge #Science #Women #History 18thc 🗃️🌷💐🌹

👉Read OA here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

At the Lewis Walpole Library: The Paradox of Pearls: Accessorizing Identities in the Eighteenth Century, curated by Laura Engel #c18th #c18 walpole.library.yale.edu/programs/exh...

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