🚨Project news! I’m working on Encounters: Early Modern Diplomacy in 50 Objects, 1500–1800 with @RoutledgeHist. From jewels to treaties, it’s diplomacy told through the objects that made history. Stay tuned! 📜 #HistTwitter #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern

Moving today's research from the archive to the sewing table as I work on a Tudor Hood using the handy kit from Tudor Tailors. Several hours of sewing through buckram means I can no longet fill my fingers 😅

Book cover with a young woman making lace

Just arrived in the post (had to queue up at the post office depot but it was worth it!)...a privilege to be part of this book which packs in so much information and examples of how you learn from materials and remaking. Congratulations, @sarahabendall.bsky.social and @serenadyer.bsky.social.

An image of a text that reads The same faire Juell geven by her Matie to the Ladye Carye, Sir George Careys wyfe

Day 3 of looking at QE's inventories & I get a sense that she wasn't keen on keeping things she was gifted #Tudor #NewYearsGifs #Jewels #BritishLibrary

In search of Queen Lizzie's jewels at the British Library today, cross-referencing inventories & gift lists to figure out which jewels she kept & which were re-gifted #Tudor #NewYearsGifts #BritishLibrary

Migrating over.....