Lovely short video by fashion historian @serenadyer.bsky.social on the new Marie Antoinette exhibition at the V&A museum To learn more about the doomed Queen of France, check out our recent episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about her with @100days1815.bsky.social & Jen Brister

“When a woman chose her gown…she was making a statement about her place in the world.” - @serenadyer.bsky.social #18thcentury #gowns #fashion #clothing #history www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GlS...

Love this video about 17th-century clothing from @serenadyer.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/shorts/uG3uL... #fashion #history #clothing #17thcentury #women

Received my copy two weeks ago but only able to open the parcel now! Exciting book edited by @sarahabendall.bsky.social and @serenadyer.bsky.social. More info: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Get 20% off with discount code “AUP20”, valid until 31 March 2025.

Next week, I'll be having a chat about my new book with @serenadyer.bsky.social as part of the Northampton-Leicester @histassoc.bsky.social programme. 6pm on 11 March. It's online and free to attend - sign up below: www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...

Absolutely thrilled to have won the @cecs-york.bsky.social book giveaway! 😊 Can't wait to dive into this wonderful anthology - many, many thanks to @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social!📖

For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation & Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk

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

@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:

Spent a fabulous day with part of the 18th-century mantua-making dream team. We’re working on an exciting new collaborative making project with Leicestershire Museums Service 🪡

@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! 👇

Very excited to share that I am now represented by Carrie Plitt at Felicity Bryan Literary Agency ✍️ Working with her and the team at Felicity Bryan has been an absolute delight so far, and I can’t wait to share more about what’s in the pipeline!

My piece for BBC Sheffield on the origins of Topshop also went live today! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

I had a lovely time on BBC Radio Bristol this afternoon chatting to John Darvall about the history of tights! Go to 2hrs 51mins to hear the segment. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Wondering what to get the fashion history fans in your life for Christmas? @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social currently has 30% off a huge range of titles, including three of my own books. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-...

A big welcome to @emmyailish.bsky.social who has started her pioneering PhD on the history of women's hockey clothing with @serenadyer.bsky.social and @hdichter.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social. The project is a collaboration with the Hockey Museum. Full story here www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne...

Thrilled to be supervising @emmyailish.bsky.social on this exciting project along with @serenadyer.bsky.social in conjunction with The Hockey Museum. Can’t wait to see what exciting work she produces! 🗃️

We discovered this during our house renovation work today. I wonder who Lee and Katie were. And I hope they don’t mind that I just ripped up their c. 1990 tiling.

Lots of new followers today so this is worth reposting! @serenadyer.bsky.social and I have an edited volume forthcoming with amazing chapters from fellow historians and art historians. Please consider asking your libraries to preorder! 📚

Some home renovation updates! Just don’t look down…the floor is next weekend’s task.

I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are delighted to announce a project we’ve been working on: our forthcoming edited volume ‘Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe’ is now available for pre-order with AUP! Published 13 Dec! www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Learning to do repousee work....Lots of chance to think through your hands at the 'Making Historical Dress' festival at De Montfort University. @serenadyer.bsky.social @sarahabendall.bsky.social #earlymodern

Fitting the front of the bodice...

And the front is now in place...if it needs to be extended later, you will add in additional straps of fabric.

And now for the keynote we have been waiting for at 'Making Historical Dress'[email protected] and Brooke Welborn walk us through making an 18th century Mantua. ##earlymodern

Day 2 of the 'Making Historical Dress' conference at DMU in Leicester. Paula Hohti's keynote on recreating 17th century stockings from Turku in Finland.

Reconstructing a doublet from the Verney collection - redated to around 1637 - toile shows that it is probably for a child or adolescent - could be Mun Verney who had scoliosis.

@serenadyer.bsky.social up on stage now to tell us about learning through remaking.How do we regain access to the hands of tailors and those who sewed garments in the 18th century? Experimental history needs to step up to the task.

@sarahabendall.bsky.social on the 'bents' and whaling materials or 'boning' that give #earlymodern clothing their shape. What were the physical limitations of these garments?

@sarahabendall.bsky.social wearing a full scale reproduction of the ''Lady Clapham' doll's Mantua. A wonderful way to discuss late 17th-century dress at 'Making Historical Dress and embodied relationships between wearer and dressmaker.

Out of office email is on and pre-festive period trip to the hairdresser complete. Let the mince pies and mulled wine begin! 🍷🎄

Home from my final on-campus day of 2023 and delighted to have won the Most Impactful Research prize at the Faculty Research & Teaching awards this afternoon! What a lovely end to the year!

I present this year’s winner of Most Cursed Christmas Ornament. Why is there a mushroom growing from its head?! 🐷🍄

@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are delighted to announce the ✨Call for Interventions 📷 for our 3rd network workshop on ‘Learning from Making: Methods and Processes’. See the thread for more information! 📷 🚨Deadline 15 December 🚨 makinghistoricaldress.dmu.ac.uk/Workshop-Thr...

✨Call for Papers✨Delighted to announce the CFP for Politicising Fashion and Fashioning Politics, a one-day symposium at De Montfort University exploring political dress and fashion! Keynote speaker: Eleri Lynn. 🚨Due Date 15th December 2023🚨

We made a Halloween apple and rhubarb cake, using fruit from the garden 🎂🎃👻

A little 🎃Halloween🎃 reminder that if you want some spooky sartorial content today, check out my video, 👻Why Do Ghosts Wear Clothes?👻 youtu.be/kIQ9NSs0Clk

Applications open for the funded PhD with @serenadyer.bsky.social & me and The Hockey Museum. Gender, Bodies, and Society through the Material Culture of Field Hockey, 1880 to the present. DMU application due Nov 30 but Midlands4Cities application due Jan 10 networks.h-net.org/group/announ...

Join me at 5pm UK time today for the ✨premiere✨of my new YouTube video, 👻Why Do Ghosts Wear Clothes?👻 youtu.be/kIQ9NSs0Clk

I had an absolutely fabulous time last night at the private view of @luciewhitmore.bsky.social and @bethanbide.bsky.social’s masterpiece of an exhibition, Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style @museumoflondon Docklands until April. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Some more snapshots from filming this week. Can’t wait to share this episode with you all!

Living my best historian/presenter life today. Any guesses what/where we were shooting? 🎬🎥🏰

Next on my to-do list: finish off this early 18th-century mantua (excuse the temporary belt). 🪡

The final manuscript for Labour of the Stitch has been submitted! 🍾🍾🍾 It's rather lovely to return to your work after a few months and feel genuinely proud of it. I can't wait to share this volume with you all!

Early 18th-century mantuas have the most fun pleated sleeves 🪡

I’m tip tapping away on the final revisions to Labour of the Stitch, which are due on Monday. The volume explores my recreation of this 1760s gown, and will be published by Cambridge University Press. So excited to share this research with you all! I’m rather proud of it.