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John Richard Coke Smyth, Elizabeth, Lady Eastlake. Watercolour 4 3/4 in. x 4 1/4 in. (121 mm x 108 mm), National Portrait Gallery,...

First up, I really enjoyed watching Dr Juliet Shields’ fortuitously timed lecture, ‘Did Sir Walter Scott Invent Scotland?’, which comes...

First up, I really enjoyed watching Dr Juliet Shields’ fortuitously timed lecture, ‘Did Sir Walter Scott Invent Scotland?’, which comes...

First up, I’m hugely excited by the programme for this year’s Slade Lectures, which will be given by Caroline van Eck. Eck’s work on...

First up, I’m hugely excited by the programme for this year’s Slade Lectures, which will be given by Caroline van Eck. Eck’s work on...

My object of the week is this albumen portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, which was used to illustrate the National Portrait Gallery’s...

My object of the week is this albumen portrait of Sarah Forbes Bonetta, which was used to illustrate the National Portrait Gallery’s...

My pick of the week is the forthcoming exhibition at Edinburgh Museum A Wise Man Knows His Craft: Henry Taylor Wyse and Holyrood Pottery,...

My pick of the week is the forthcoming exhibition at Edinburgh Museum A Wise Man Knows His Craft: Henry Taylor Wyse and Holyrood Pottery,...

I’m thrilled to have received a Design History Society Research Travel & Conference Grant for my project, From House to Home: Gender,...

I’m thrilled to have received a Design History Society Research Travel & Conference Grant for my project, From House to Home: Gender,...

Image from the MGHG Biennial Conference site. The upcoming MGHG Biennial Conference: Gendering Museum Histories (Ashmolean Museum,...

Image from the MGHG Biennial Conference site. The upcoming MGHG Biennial Conference: Gendering Museum Histories (Ashmolean Museum,...

This week my twitter feed has been full of historical valentines and love themed art objects, such as this ‘Lobster in Love’ valentine’s...

This week my twitter feed has been full of historical valentines and love themed art objects, such as this ‘Lobster in Love’ valentine’s...

See the Storify for Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference Difficult Women in the Long Eighteenth Century here and here. #feminism #history...

See the Storify for Day 1 and Day 2 of the conference Difficult Women in the Long Eighteenth Century here and here. #feminism #history...

L0058782 Velvet ribbon votive offering, Isle of Man, 1880-1916 Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images This blue velvet ribbon...

L0058782 Velvet ribbon votive offering, Isle of Man, 1880-1916 Credit: Science Museum, London. Wellcome Images This blue velvet ribbon...

A roundup of CFPs, articles, papers, and postings that caught my attention this week: Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions...