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Because it's Tuesday: reposting the Material Fictions articles, this one from Part 2.

Soft Materiality: Dress and Material Fiction in T.S. Surr's /A Winter in London/
by Timothy Campbell https://t.co/FoYsLm5dgy

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2021-05-05

in 1810 Alejandro Malaspina died. The Italian marine was one of the greatest explorers of Between 1789 and 1794 he commanded a comprehensive scientific exploration of the Spanish territories in the Americas and the Pacific.

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2021-04-09

For meet the original Bluestockings, a group of women intellectuals. Their name would eventually become a misogynist epithet — but it didn’t start that way.

https://t.co/3PvvF2iNon via

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2021-03-30

Shaping The Past https://t.co/WgY9q73m5u 'The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.' Anthony Beevor

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2021-03-24

Pierre Gauchat pour le théâtre suisse de marionnettes:dessin de design Lauretta pour "le fidèle musicien" de Pergolesi, 1930

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2021-03-17

Viller's of d'Ognes was initially attributed to Jacques Louis David, but in 1995 Margaret Oppenheimer made a strong case for it to be the work of Villers. 2/

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2021-03-03

This beautiful sheet shows the metamorphosis of the gypsy moth (Lymantria dispar) that a century later would become an It was made by the Dutch naturalist Johannes le Francq van Berkhey. collection

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2021-03-02

Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an in 6 movements

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2021-02-23

RT : Captain Arthur Gardiner felt dishonoured by association with disgraced Admiral Byng. In 1758, commanding HMS Monmouth he cleared his name in battle with one of the most powerful French ships afloat. https://t.co/ahVzPcQroB

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2021-02-23

Captain Arthur Gardiner felt dishonoured by association with disgraced Admiral Byng. In 1758, commanding HMS Monmouth he cleared his name in battle with one of the most powerful French ships afloat. Click: https://t.co/cx1W5f35Hr

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2021-02-19

After execution of Admiral Byng in 1757 his flag-captain, Arthur Gardiner, felt dishonoured. Commanding HMS Monmouth in 1758 he cleared his name in battle with one of France's most powerful French ships. Click: https://t.co/cx1W5f35Hr

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2021-02-17

Definitely caricatured, but satirists in the often depicted postilions wearing enormous boots.
may have more insights.

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2021-02-11

"that some of our ministers can neither dance nor sing, would not be a reproach to them, if they had but somebody with them that could": guidance on suggesting all political negotiations should conclude with a dance-off?

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2021-02-09

diplomats were human: in 1727 Lord Waldegrave wrote from Paris to his contact back in hoping that his last dispatch "did not show the influence of

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2021-02-05

Happy This placard patterned paper is from our 1774 edition of the The Seasons, written by James Thomson.
https://t.co/O19KDVTxJv

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2021-02-02