Does anyone have access to old issues of Costume from 1983? I have a student in need of the following and Dal doesn't have access:

Staniland, Kay, and Santina M Levey. “Queen Victoria’s Wedding Dress and Lace.” Costume 17, no. 1 (1983): 1–32.

@grouchox I firmly believe that more academic books could use some whimsy in their cover design.

Fashioning Acadians is now officially available for preorder! (I'm so excited to see six years of my life finally exist in physical form!)

https://www.mqup.ca/fashioning-acadians-products-9780228018926.php

It's a history of some Nova Scotia #Acadian fashion systems, and also a proposed methodology for extracting social information from material remains - mostly small archaeological finds from domestic manufacture.

"Fashioning Acadians is a history of clothesmaking and dress in Acadia from 1650 to 1750. Through the analysis of four Acadian settlements in what is now Nova Scotia, Hilary Doda uncovers the regional fashions and trends that had begun to emerge prior to the violence of the deportations of 1755. Men’s and women’s wardrobes are described from head to toe, from headdresses and hairstyles down to stockings and shoes, along with accessories such as buttons, buckles, and jewellery."

The book releases October 31st --- pass the word around! #materialculture #dresshistory #atlantic #histodon

My article on Cape Breton overshot is out now in Textile History. This project started out as a look into a weaving style and ended up in human geography and place attachment theory in the Scottish diaspora; quite the ride!

"‘Be sure to incorporate a little history’: Nostalgia and Stories of Place in Cape Breton Overshot Weaving"

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6ETIAUEQX8JNNP477X4Q/full?target=10.1080/00404969.2023.2189442

My immediate reaction is that it's a yad, a pointer for reading Torah so that your finger doesn't get oils or dirt on the scroll. But how did it get to South Devon? The Jewish community didn't re-establish itself in England until Cromwell, so if this is late-16th-early-17th century, it was made elsewhere and brought back.

I've tried to find contact information for Brian Read in the hopes of learning more about this find, but no luck so far. If anyone knows him / can pass this on, or has any information about this piece, please get in touch!

#histodons #metaldetectors #Judaism #Devon

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I also stumbled over something interesting while prepping my talk on Stuart-era dress spurs. This reference, in 'History Beneath Our Feet'.

The text reads, "Perhaps the most puzzling object of all from this period is an extremely beautiful copper alloy human hand, which was found on farmland near Bishopsteignton. A finger ring, worn on the index finger, and the style of the sleeve cuff are late sixteenth to early seventeenth century period.

"Again it is obvious that this object was originally attached to something else, possibly to some kind of staff or wand. It is similar in looks, but larger, to precious metal pendants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This artifact has been examined by staff of three national museums who have all said they do not know what the function was."

Read, Brian. "History Beneath our Feet," Merlin Books 1998. P. 120.

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Absolutely having the best time at 'Performing and Resisting Power in Early Modern Life' -- https://letterspowerdiplomacy.wordpress.com/

I love the accessibility of zoom conferences - there'd be no way to get us all together like this otherwise - but I am sorely missing the coffee'n'shop talk aspects of socializing and hearing more about people's other projects.

Very excited to be able to share the cover of my new book with all y'all! "Fashioning Acadians" will be out this fall from MQUP, and it's very shiny.

See here for more information:
https://hilarydoda.com/publications/

@materialculture

Test 2 - will this boost?

I can see in the group page itself that guppe thinks it's boosted my post, but that boosted post is not showing up in either my notifications or my timeline.

Can someone else make a post and tag the guppe group, so I can see what happens?

@timesmith

Okay! Looks like we're a go.

Edit: except the notifications don't seem to be working. Let me figure this out.

Follow @materialculture

Tag a post with @materialculture and, like #histodons , it will retoot that post to all its followers.

(I feel like we're creating listservs or usenet groups all over again...)

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From the FAQ:

How does Guppe work?

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@timesmith I didn't get any interest so I parked the idea, but I'd be happy to try and get it figured out now!

I spent today coding some of the spurs data I downloaded from the #PortableAntiquitiesScheme and came across a description of a terminal from a post-medieval rowel spur fragment as "fortuitously phallic-looking." Did I click on the image link? Of course I did.

(It looks more like one of those ganache-drizzled Black Magic chocolates to me, but you be the judge. Link is SFW, unless you have a very vivid imagination.)

https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1053091/recordtype/artefacts

#SpursProject #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern

@lillyfinch @CandaceRobbAuthor @medievodons

What's fun is that we actually do know how many things she lost! Wardrobe records noted everything lost or given away by the Tudor royals. Janet Arnold's early book "Lost From Her Majesty's Back" covers 1563 - 1585. It's a wonderful resource!

https://books.google.com/books/about/Lost_from_Her_Majesty_s_Back.html?id=qe2IOwAACAAJ

The Prize Papers Project is dedicated to the study and digitization of the Prize Papers collection, a vast trove of documents & artifacts stored at The National Archives, UK.

The second release of Prize Papers material from the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48) is now online in our Portal. The newly published papers come from six neutral ships captured by the British on suspicion of collaborating with the enemy.

https://www.prizepapers.de/stories/case-studies/case-study-french-prizes/case-study-neutral-ships

#histodons @histodons @earlymodernmaritimestudies

It's fascinating to me that in an era of plague, we're also back to pomanders as accessories.

Friends who followed me between the 17th and 23rd, please see this from one of our hcommons team. It may look like you're following me. But you're not. So try unfollowing and then following again.

There are many, *many* negatives to being part-time / contingent faculty, but one positive is that I can take tech gigs during the school year. Goodbye marking and research for the weekend, hello piles of spandex and my favorite sets of blacks - I'm dressing the Cats tour this weekend, and I can't wait.

(This was the show that got ten-year-old me desperate to work in musical theatre, and she’s been shrieking with glee in the back of my head since I got the call. One more thing off the bucket list!)

I've got a list with #MaterialCulture folks that I'm following, but I also quite like the functions of the Guppe groups for retooting (heh) relevant posts. Would there be interest if I were to try and set up a @materialculture group?

(Or has someone done this already and I haven't found it yet?)

I believe the way that it works is that any post tooted with the group name @-ed in the body would be automatically boosted by the group, to anyone who followed it.

Hello #Mastodon, if you know a Black woman student (HS/College/Grad School) or early career, I am going need you to lend me your ears.

The Sadie Collective, a nonprofit bringing resources and community to Black women in quant and social science fields, is award ing $6000 and all expense paid trips to their annual conference.

As someone who participated PLEASE share widely.

https://sadiecollective.force.com/s/research-reception-form?language=en_US

#econtwitter #economics #sociology #science #academia #academic #BlackMastodon #Blacktwitter

Are there other #histodons out there who study gender and sexuality ca. 1850–1920? Please DM or reply and I'm follow you! I'm still looking for my queer and trans history peeps. My current book project focuses on the US but I'd love to learn from people working on other nations and geographic areas. (@lizcovart, I'm definitely interested in following and/or joining your instance!) #LGBTQIA+ #gendervariance #queer #trans #transcestors #sexology #GildedAge