@SarahABendall

Material Culture & Dress History | Women, Trade, Making & Consumption, 1500-1800 | Insta: sarahbendall_dresshistory | Pre-order my next book 👇

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Publication day today for The Women Who Clothed the Stuart Queens! See this 🧵 for a chapter breakdown. Discount code & links in my bio.
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I will be speaking about my new book at the @TJCMuseum in Melbourne next weekend! I’d love to see you there! Signed copies of my book will also be available! johnstoncollection.org/Fashi…

Fashioning the Royal Court: The Women Who Clothed The Stuart Queens with Dr Sarah Bendall

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đź‘‘ Out now đź‘‘ @SarahABendall tells the hidden story of the women who dressed royalty, charting their integral role in clothing six Stuart queens. Beautifully illustrated in full colour throughout. Learn more: bit.ly/4gTlxsi
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Chapter 5 explores how, from dressing & hairstyling to laundering & storage, women played a vital role in maintaining the Stuart queens’ wardrobes. It shows how royal households’ care economies created opportunities for paid work, social mobility and long-term careers for women.
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The conclusion discusses the relationship between the Stuart court & London’s marketplace. By reconstructing networks, I show how court women’s patronage fostered the growth of tradeswomen in fashion trades, reshaping our understanding of their work, identity & economic activity.
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CourtStudies@CourtStudiesJul 3
đź“Ł CFP! The society will be holding a one-day symposium at St Mary's University Twickenham in association with the Strawberry Hill House Trust to celebrate its 30th anniversary! Abstracts welcome from ECRs on "Where are Court Studies now?" đź—“ Abstracts - 17 Aug đź—“ Event - 2 Oct
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Wake up, University VC and Council. It’s not too late to turn this around and champion your humanities staff and our world-class departments. Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts | University of Exeter | The Guardian theguardian.com/education/20…

Fury over Exeter University plan to scrap dozens of humanities posts

Rowan Williams and Mark Kermode join campaign against proposed cuts for arts and social sciences

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Dr Flan@thehistoriannJul 1
Out today! New issue of the Journal of Early American History featuring a roundtable on piracy that I had the opportunity to contribute to. Check it out! brill.com/view/journals/jeah…
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My new article has just been published OA @womenshistrev ! Lots of archival work in here tracing the the women who ran “Indian houses” in #17thc London. It includes one woman who may have helped plot the Glorious Revolution!! 👀 #earlymodern tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Claxon đź“Ł for English lit. graduates: here's a fully funded 4-year PhD position at Leiden, within a project led by the fabulous Dr Lotte Fikkers, and co-supervised by yours truly, on literary representations of wardship in early modern English drama bit.ly/4bEeH7a
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đź“ŻThe Sixteenth Century Journal seeks a new Editor! Learn more and apply by July 1: ow.ly/9qNS50Z3jqC @16CSociety
The Sixteenth Century Journal

ALT The Sixteenth Century Journal

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CourtStudies@CourtStudiesMay 26
The Society for Court Studies offers an annual prize on the subject of court studies. The recipient of the prize will receive £500 and their essay will be considered for publication in The Court Historian. The essay, which can be up to 10,000 words including footnotes, can
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The deadline for our 2026 Biennial Book Prize is 15th May! This year, we are adding an innovation to our book prize scheme, to offer both a book prize for scholarly monographs & commendations for both edited collections & trade publications. @royalstudies rsj.winchester.ac.uk/prizes
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Jennifer A. Frey@jennfreyMay 10
It was clear for thousands of years that the cultivation of our humanity was the most important project we could undertake. The fact that the value of this is no longer legible to us--that we see no "point" to education beyond earning a wage--is the real crisis.
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Look what arrived this week!! Advanced author copies of my next book @BloomsburyFashn. 📚 I’m so thrilled to see it in the flesh - 5 years & hundreds of transcribed household bills later! Out in July-August. Preorder link in my bio! #17thc #18thc #earlymodern
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@boydellbrewer are having a 60% sale on selected hardbacks from today until 5 May, which includes my monograph Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty for £35.77. Bargain! boydellandbrewer.com/book/ca…

Catholics during the English Revolution, 1642-1660

Examines the experiences of Catholics during the period when England was ruled by Puritan Protestants.

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