My book, 100 Things to Wear: Fashion From the Collections of the National Trust (co-authored with the incredible Emma Slocombe) is now available to pre-order on Amazon. I'll be buying all my copies from my local @nationaltrust.bsky.social shop, but this is really hugely exciting to see!

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now! It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life. Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇

Finally reached publication day! Well done @curatorrachel.bsky.social - a great @nationaltrust.bsky.social project to be part of. Get your copy - shop.nationaltrust.org.uk/women-artist...

Publication day! 📚 A huge to my brilliant colleagues for making this happen, especially Christopher, Dave and Leah in the publications team. 🖼️ It is a joy to have the opportunity to celebrate the women artists, designers and makers from across our places and collections.🏺#nationaltrust

Published tomorrow (though snuck its way into some @nationaltrust.bsky.social shops already)! #womenartists #nationaltrust

A fascinating afternoon with conservator Emma at Calke Abbey, XRF testing two monumental eagles - what are their secrets? #ceramichistory #conservation #curator #research

The aim of the WHN’s 33rd annual conference is to explore & celebrate the challenges & opportunities of uncovering the presence of women within archives, libraries, museums & personal collections. See the call for papers here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #WomensHistory #GenderHist #CPF

📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

📢 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

This cut paperwork scene was made by sisters Jane and Mary Parminter around 1770-1820. Layers of intricately cut and shaped designs come together to create an amazing dimensional work of art. #museum30 day 18 - Paper

Thrilled to have seen 'The Botanical World of Mary Delany' at Beningbrough Hall at last, showcasing many of her beautifully detailed collages. It was also a treat to see 'Women Artists and Designers at the National Trust', including Sabine Winn's collages. Perfect way to start 2025!

Really enjoyed The Botanical World of Mary Delany at Beningbrough Hall - stunning collages, and the kids enjoyed it too #Yorkshire

Mary Delany transformed ordinary materials into extraordinary, inspirational artworks. At Beningbrough Hall, Yorkshire, discover the The Botanical World of Mary Delaney Exhibition and explore the intricate detail of this new photographic display presented in partnership with the British Museum.

If you know Abbey House Museum in #Leeds but don't yet know that it's under threat of closure (to save a small sum from the hard-pressed council budget) you might like to make your views known here: museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe.... Closing date for comments: 23 January

The public consultation on closing Abbey House Museum is now open. Please consider taking part: museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/pQoMAtw/abbe...

🎄 A very festive jug from the @nationaltrust decorated a century ago with swirly holly and loops of lustre by Louise Powell. 🔔 #merrychristmas #wedgwood #louisepowell #womenartists

Behold the earliest known photo of a snowman! It was taken in Swansea in 1853 by Victorian photography pioneer Mary Dillwyn. 📷 Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru / National Library of Wales #Christmas

A group of pots at one of our properties has been recorded as decorated by Alfred Powell, but are actually by Louise Powell, so I’ve just started working through them as my last task of the week. Louise was a student of calligraphy and this training translates beautifully into ceramic painting.

Found the source image for a plate decorated in 1875 by Rupert Potter (Beatrix’s father) for his children’s nursery, by Harrison Weir from Vere Foster’s Drawing Book O1. The Potters was a creative household and they used these hugely popular books at home together, including on pots.

The best look for Parian I’ve seen. Hew Locke at the British Museum.

This is going to be an incredible resource for museum conservation museumsandheritage.com/advisor/post...

Making Christmas decorations at the Hepworth Wakefield fair. Lots of fun - the opportunity to make stuff is always such a bonus for my two boys and the Hepworth does this brilliantly.

Call for submissions! *Embodied Knowledge & Making Texts: A Handbook* Please spread the word to academics & practitioners - @georginaemw.bsky.social and I have been overwhelmed and delighted by the response so far. It's going to be great! www.thinicepress.org/research/cal...

The Discoveries writing development programme and prize for unpublished women writers in the UK accepts novels in any genre of adult fiction, with entrants invited to submit the first 10,000 words of their novel and a synopsis

For the 2024 Decorative Art Society journal I’ve written about the ceramic painter, dressmaker, embroiderer, cobbler, leather-worker, gallerist, feather artist, #suffragist, interior designer, pageant organiser and all around brilliant individual, Amy Kotze. A dish by her is at Nuffield Place (NT).

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)

My favourite pieces from Felicity Aylieff’s wonderful exhibition at Kew. Look at those enamel colour reference tiles 🥰

Hannah @fitchandmcandrew.bsky.social and I are thrilled, flattered, honoured, and overwhelmed to have had a piece each of our work purchased by the V&A for their permanent collection. They are currently on show in 'Studio Ceramics and the V&A' in the ceramics galleries.

New Books About Women Artists | July–Sept 2024 artherstory.net/new-books-ab...

Working at Melford Hall in Suffolk yesterday - a long way to travel but nice to be greeted by these door friends.

📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Thought I’d make my first post both positive and useful-so here’s a list of all of the free-to-view titles now available on the British Newspaper Archive: blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2024/09/19/a...

My little Thomas Bewick heron, hand printed on the press at NT Cherryburn. @everyheron.bsky.social @celiarichardson.bsky.social

In olden days people saw Heron as some of the saddest, wretched, depressed creatures. Perhaps they just saw themselves reflected? Today people who stop to watch describe us as meditating, thoughtful, wise, and seeing the world better than most. Again, reflections. 💙 (1804)

There are over 7000 starter packs flying around. Go here and type "women" into the search bar to get 62 packs that focus on either women working in a specialism, or historians working on women and gender studies. 1/2 blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

A good day in Derbyshire, talking art and buying books.

As I'll be following along #Museums2024 on Bluesky, thought it would be good to get a UK museumfolk starter pack going for those new or new-ish over here. Let me know who I should add! go.bsky.app/PYNaoQr

✨Job Alert ✨ Head of Research, National Gallery London Closing Date: Monday 18 Nov 2024 Full details www.saxbam.com/appointment/...

Hi folks. Please request an add/share/like to join the Material Culture starter pack! go.bsky.app/GARWutv

Hiya, I’m a curator at the National Trust w/specialism in British decorative arts & craft. I’ve written a book on #womenartists at the NT (Feb 2025) & just co-curated an exhibition on Mary Delany at #Beningbrough. Also working on disability histories, amateur making & contemporary collecting.

There is still some space in the #materialculture starter pack. May not be able to add you until after The Mirror and the Light, because #HilaryMantel #materialculture #inmyelement