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Week in Review – 11 September
My object of the week is this albumen portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, which was used to illustrate the National Portrait Gallery’s...
Week in Review – 21 August
My object of the week is this c.1760 Worcester dish, which features the company’s Valentine pattern (Brian Haughton Gallery). Featuring...
Week in Review – 21 August
My object of the week is this c.1760 Worcester dish, which features the company’s Valentine pattern (Brian Haughton Gallery). Featuring...
Week in Review – 7 August
This week’s object of the week isn’t mine per se, but Zara Anishanslin’s. In her recently published book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk:...
Week in Review – 7 August
This week’s object of the week isn’t mine per se, but Zara Anishanslin’s. In her recently published book, Portrait of a Woman in Silk:...
Week in Review – 31 July
My object of the week is an image from Mary Banning’s The Fungi of Maryland, a lush volume with 175 hand-painted watercolors accompanied...
Week in Review – 31 July
My object of the week is an image from Mary Banning’s The Fungi of Maryland, a lush volume with 175 hand-painted watercolors accompanied...
Week in Review – 24 July
My object of the week is this book of spirit drawings by the medium Anna Mary Howitt. Now held at Cambridge University Library Special...
Week in Review – 24 July
My object of the week is this book of spirit drawings by the medium Anna Mary Howitt. Now held at Cambridge University Library Special...
Week in Review – 26 June
My object of the week is this newly-acquired patchwork made c. 1804 by Birmingham writer Catherine Hutton, now in the collections of...
Week in Review – 26 June
My object of the week is this newly-acquired patchwork made c. 1804 by Birmingham writer Catherine Hutton, now in the collections of...
Week in Review – 5 June
My pick of the week is Michael Yonan’s article ‘Materializing Empire in an Eighteenth-Century Lace Gown’ (Textile), which was recently...
Week in Review – 5 June
My pick of the week is Michael Yonan’s article ‘Materializing Empire in an Eighteenth-Century Lace Gown’ (Textile), which was recently...
Week in Review – 21 May
My pick of the week is the  Paul Mellon Centre’s new online resource, A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816), by Richard...
Week in Review – 21 May
My pick of the week is the  Paul Mellon Centre’s new online resource, A Catalogue Raisonné of Francis Towne (1739-1816), by Richard...
Storify for The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, AAH 201
I’ve now Storified our AAH 2016 panel, The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, which is...
Storify for The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, AAH 201
I’ve now Storified our AAH 2016 panel, The (After) Lives of Things: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Material Culture, which is...
Week in Review – 14 May
MS Am 1118.11. Houghton Library, Harvard University My object of the week comes from this fascinating article ‘The Lost Gardens of Emily...
Week in Review – 14 May
MS Am 1118.11. Houghton Library, Harvard University My object of the week comes from this fascinating article ‘The Lost Gardens of Emily...
Week in Review – 8 May
London’s Outrage punk fanzine My object of the week comes from Jon Savage’s article ‘Fanzines: the purest explosion of British punk‘,...
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