Save the date for a special "19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed" online event on Sunday November 26, this time in collaboration with ACORSO Research Interest Group "Tailoring for Women 1750 - 1930"!
"Focused on the holdings of Teaching Collections of dress housed across the United States, curators and archivists from featured institutions will share treasures of tailored clothing for women produced and worn during the long nineteenth century."
Programme:
👗 Fashion Archives and Museum of Shippensburg University
👗 Drexel University Robert and Penny Fox Historical Costume Collection
👗 Ohio State University Historic Costume and Textiles Collection
👗 Goldstein Museum of Design (GMD) College of Design University of Minnesota
The Scottish Traditional Music Archive Directory is now live! 🥳
The directory brings together organisations in and outside Scotland with collections of Scottish traditional music.
Users can identify collection holders, find information on their catalogues, get in touch with them, and compare collections from different organisations.
You can still reserve a spot for the next "At Home with 19th Century Dress & Textiles" (free) online event on Sunday, October 29!
This time, the speakers will be sharing "hidden, overlooked and marginalised histories."
Programme:
🧵 Lisa Bowyer - The Rachel Barrett sampler, Halifax's African school (1836-1855) and the recouping of identity
🧵 Chris Evans - Clothing the Enslaved in the Age of Atlantic Slavery
🧵 Ruth Battersby - Personal and Political: Selected Textiles from the Norwich Costume and Textile Collections
Calling all people and institutions that work with archives!
This year's theme for "Explore Your Archive Week" is in the attached graphic. The campaign has really good engagement over on #X and we'd love to see the campaign to celebrate archives take off here on #Mastodon
Share your archives under the hashtags and we'll boost.
For 25 years, Christine Coulson wrote description labels for The Metropolitan Museum of Art — basic details, plus 75 words about each work. Her novel, "One Woman Show," is inspired by these experiences. For LitHub, she writes about the stories she shared, what makes a good label, and why she rarely reads them. "Museums are for looking, and your individual response to a work of art holds all the magic," she says.
A few photos from Monday's meeting "Musealization, Power and Colonialism", at Padrão dos Descobrimentos, where we hosted the winner of the Amílcar Cabral Prize 2022, Sakiru Adebayo.
In a few hours, we'll be meeting at the Padrão dos Descobrimentos for the first session where we'll be joined by the 2022 Amílcar Cabral Prize winner, Sakiru Adebayo (University of British Columbia).
The prison and the museum, central institutions of modernity, will be this afternoon's guiding thread.
On Monday, all roads lead to the Padrão dos Descobrimentos!
At the meeting "Musealisation, Power and Colonialism", we will analyse and discuss two central institutions of our modernity: the prison and the museum.
The guest of honour is Sakiru Adebayo (University of British Columbia), winner of the Amílcar Cabral Prize 2022.
🆕 Sakiru Adebayo, winner of the Amílcar Cabral Prize 2022, will be in Lisbon next week, taking part in various events organised by the IHC and the Padrão dos Descobrimentos / EGEAC.
✍️ The call for papers for the themed issue of Práticas da História — Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past dedicated to "Collaborative practices: rethinking narratives and musealisation processes" is now open.
The editors are Rita Juliana Soares Poloni (UFPel), Diego Lemos Ribeiro (UFPel), and Elizabete Mendonça (UNIRIO).
📖 In the journal Culture. Society. Economy. Politics, Leonor Sá published a paper where she presents three interdisciplinary and community-serving projects carried out by the Portuguese Judiciary Police Museum, all related to the protection of #CulturalHeritage.
“Orange. September Court. 1771.”
This document in the Montpelier Collection features the remains of #JamesMadison’s signature, unfortunately, lost when the paper was damaged sometime during the past #250 years.
Court document, MF2014.22.2a-c, The Montpelier Collection.
A portion of the Analytical Engine of the incomplete mechanical computer at time of inventor Charles Babbage's passing in October 1871.
Held at Science Museum of London (its photo--CC). Contained a store for numbers (or memory) and a mill (which corresponds to what we think of as the CPU). It was 15 ft tall & weighed what a small locomotive does.