Material Culture
A starter pack for people interested in material culture from all disciplinary perspectives.
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@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
@sarahabendall.bsky.social
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
@laurenworking.bsky.social
Early modernist at the University of York | Writing a book about how the Americas & its peoples influenced Tudor/Stuart art, lit, & style | TEMPEST for Oxford World's Classics (2024) | BBC Radio 3 New Gen Thinker | Rep'd by Emma Bal at Madeleine Milburn.
@janehamlett.bsky.social
Professor of Modern British History at RHUL. Research interests: family, home, material and visual culture, mental health and animals. Also keen on cats…
@rebeccaolds.bsky.social
Early Modern Dress & Textile Historian | Researcher Maker Teacher | UofGlasgow PGDip Dress & Textile Histories | www.timesmith.co.uk | cycling, live music, cats | former trademark attorney | 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇳🇱 (she/her)
@vtisaac.bsky.social
Material Culture Historian | Past Curator | Specialist in 19thC theatre costume & dress | Writing a biography of actress Ellen Terry | @concoshistories
@luciewhitmore.bsky.social
Fashion Curator Museum of London | Fashion City exhibition and book coming October 2023 | PhD on WW1 fashion 2018 | She/Her | Views my own
@metcostume.bsky.social
Public domain works from The Met's Costume Institute dept. Automated #artbot thanks to @andreitr.bsky.social and @botfrens.bsky.social
@sims-mss.bsky.social
We post about manuscripts, mostly from UPenn. SIMS brings manuscript culture, modern technology and people together. https://schoenberginstitute.org/
@bethanbide.bsky.social
Lectures in fashion, textiles, and dress history and Director of the Pasold Research Fund. Interested in fashion cities/ museums/ object biographies/ Jewish fashion makers/ 20th Century ready-to-wear clothing.
@juliepark.bsky.social
Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
@historyhannahb.bsky.social
Professor of British History, University of Manchester. Social historian of northern England. Currently partial to a bit of material culture, religion, digital community history, popular culture and boxing. 🗃️
@drangelasutton.bsky.social
Author: Pirates of the Slave Trade Professor: Communication of Science & Tech Director: Fort Negley Descendants Project & Builders and Defenders Database www.buildersanddefenders.org www.AngelaSutton.info
@mdamkjaer.bsky.social
Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
@annapjudson.bsky.social
Durham Classicist (languages, Linear B, epigraphy, archaeology). Member of WCC and WIASN. Blogging (intermittently) at http://itsallgreektoanna.wordpress.com. She/her
@jennscott1485.bsky.social
Historian, writer, re-enactor. Interested in Scots clothing and sometimes battles from 1450-1750. https://www.helion.co.uk/military-history-books/the-men-of-warre-the-clothes-weapons-and-accoutrements-of-the-scots-at-war-1460-1600.php
@emlynkd.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer @ics.bsky.social, Uni of London Former A/Director, British School at Rome Archaeologist 🏺 Ancient wine & oil 🍇🍷 Co-director, faleriinoviproject.org 🏛️ FSA FRHistS FHEA. 🔗: https://sas.academia.edu/EmlynDodd
@profcatheriner.bsky.social
Pro-Vice-Chancellor University East Anglia and Professor of Early Modern Studies. Previously Director, Institute of Cultural and Creative Industries, University of Kent; everyday life, material histories, creative heritage.
@rpzquinton.bsky.social
Dress & textile curator. Occasional quilter & appallingly bad knitter. She/her. Views my own.
@dbellingradt.bsky.social
Historian of communication flows currently at Universität Augsburg | Co-editor of JbKG https://t1p.de/JbKG | Team #skystorians | I do enjoy my work | 🐘 https://historians.social/@dbellingradt | linktree: https://linktr.ee/danielbellingradt
@marloavidon.bsky.social
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
@eicathomefinn.bsky.social
Historian of Britain and colonialism, material culture, the EIC. Also works on equalities, museums, open access & research policy. Download the EIC @ Home open access volume here: https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/88277 (or individual chapters via JSTOR)
@nguthrie.bsky.social
Collector. Antiquary. The Material Culture of the Jacobites (2014). Guthrie’s Guide to Better Legal Writing (2017, 2021). Trustee, George R Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art
@lindaaburnett.bsky.social
Researches Linnaean natural history, the Scottish Enlightenment, history of racism, instructions and collecting. Senior Lecturer & mum of 3.
@isabellarosner.bsky.social
Textile historian🪡 curator, Royal School of Needlework | research associate, Witney Antiques | host, Sew What? podcast | PhD on early Quaker women's needle, wax, and shellwork | views my own, etc. | she/her
@fourredshoes.bsky.social
Dress & Textile Historian | Curator | Fashion History | Culture | Archaeology | Books: @AustenDress 2019; Jane Austen's Wardrobe 2023 | In Lenapehoking / NYC
@mcshistory.bsky.social
Indie dev. studio specializing historically accurate RTS city builders, artifact/site digitization and reconstruction, historic consultation/research, and educational materials. Blending digital and physical media to put in history into the hands of all.
@amaterialworld.bsky.social
A series of free #materialculture events at @warburginstitute.bsky.social | Theme for 2024-25: Work v. Play | Posts by convenor @louisamckenzie.bsky.social https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/whats-on/material-world
@materialwills.bsky.social
The Material Culture of Wills, England 1540-1790: a Leverhulme Trust project using digital tech & volunteers to transcribe 25,000 wills. Volunteer for us: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/hjsmith/the-material-culture-of-wills-england-1540-1790
@chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social
Prof of eighteenth-century studies in York | material culture studies, women’s work and the Atlantic world | print culture & dress history | trying at social media 📚Novels, Needleworks & Empire https://yalebooks.yale.edu/9780300270785/novels-needleworks-a
@serenadyer.bsky.social
🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History ✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch 🎬 Presenter @englishheritage 📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency She/her
@sallytuckett.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer Dress and Textile History | Eighteenth-century dress & textiles | Scotland | Tartan | Linen | Knitting
@sallyholloway.bsky.social
Historian of emotions, gender, visual & material culture, researching ❤️ & 💔 | Author of The Game of Love in Georgian England: https://tinyurl.com/nz7wkwah | AHRC Research, Development & Engagement Fellow | On maternity leave until 05/25
@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social
Academic (#c18th century #literature) and Head and Prof of English and Related Literature at the Uni of York working on periodicals, media, women writers, material culture, dress history. Writer. Crafter. #SEND parent. Coffee Lover.