Category: Visual Culture
By Miara Fraikin In March 2020 – not the best timing to be honest – I started my PhD research within the Horizon 2020 funded European Training Network PALAMUSTO (Palace Museum of Tomorrow). Uniting ten researchers from nine hosting institutions in five European countries,… Continue Reading “Researching (from) a Ducal Residence: the Tower Apartment of Mary of Hamal at the Castle of Heverlee”
Category: Early Modern, Essays, Low Countries, Materiality, Memory, Public History, Visual CultureTags: Belgium, Early Modern, Featured, heritage, History, Low Countries, museums, Palaces, Public History
By Esther Griffin van Orsouw For my PhD research at the University of Warsaw, I investigate the consumption of art by the Sobieski family and their contemporaries in the late 17th and early 18th century in relation to space. I consider what type of… Continue Reading “A Royal Bedroom: Gender, Class and Material Culture”
Category: Central Europe, Commemoration, Early Modern, Essays, Material History, Materiality, Methodologies, Pedagogy, Poland, Practice-based, Public History, Visual art, Visual CultureTags: Europe, Featured, History, Material Culture, Palaces, Poland, space
Posted on December 16, 2021
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By Julie Holder When I tell people that I research the nineteenth-century history of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, a very specific idea of an ‘antiquary’ comes to mind: white, male, and middle or upper class. And to a great extent this view… Continue Reading “Women collectors, Lady Associates and the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland”
Category: Collecting, Essays, Material Culture, Material History, Modernity, scotland, Uncategorized, Visual CultureTags: Antiquaries, Collectors, Featured, Gender, History, scotland
Posted on December 7, 2021
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By Esther Griffin – van Orsouw Stories of royal and noble courts capture the imagination of millions of people all over the world. If we look at the offer on streaming services, we see historical titles such as ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’, ‘Versailles’, ‘The… Continue Reading “The Palace Museum of Tomorrow”
Category: Central Europe, Commemoration, Early Modern, Essays, Materiality, Public History, Spain, Visual CultureTags: Architecture, Early Modern History, Europe, Featured, heritage, History, museums, Networks, Palaces
CHENG HE Look up the word ‘lacquer’ in an art dictionary, or on Google, and you usually find the word ‘varnish’; a sticky liquid applied to the surface of objects to form a shiny coating. The word can also refer to the objects coated… Continue Reading “Lacquer as Art and Medicinal Material in Early Modern England”
Category: China, Collecting, Colonisation, Early Modern, England, Essays, Healthcare, Material Culture, Material History, Materiality, Medicine, Postcolonial History, Uncategorized, Visual art, Visual CultureTags: Asia, China, Craftsmanship, Definitions, Early Modern, England, Featured, Furniture, healing, health, Japan, lacquer, Language, Material Culture, Medicine, Objects, Science, Varnish
Why depictions of status and disability in the Early Middle Ages still matter JUTTA LAMMINAHO ‘A lame man crawling along on his hands led a blind man to the paupers’ hostel at St Gall, where both of them stayed the night, and were both… Continue Reading “Saints, Beggars and Scapegoats”
Category: Church history, Disability History, Essays, France, Germany, Hospitals, Low Countries, Medieval, Uncategorized, Visual art, Visual Culture, Visual history, Western EuropeTags: begging, disability, Disability History, early middle ages, Einhard, Featured, healing, health, Medieval, pandemic, relics, Saints, social history, undergraduate research, work
DANIEL ADAMSON I was recently intrigued to find a repeat of the 1973 documentary The World at War buried in the depths of Freeview television. Across 26 hour-long episodes, this series chronicled the course of the Second World War and charted the key experiences of the… Continue Reading “Reflections on ‘The World At War’”
Category: Britain, Cinema, Commemoration, Digital History, Essays, France, Germany, Media and Culture, Memory, Military, Modernity, Netherlands, Political History, Public History, Uncategorized, Visual Culture, War, Western Europe, World WarsTags: Auschwitz, documentary, education, Featured, holocaust, Laurence Olivier, Memory, methodology, public conscious, Public History, The World at War, TV, World War 2
SASHA RASMUSSEN When asked to describe my work, I tend to say that my research sits at the intersection of gender and sensory histories. Gender as a lens of historical analysis has by now been widely adopted, but the concept of ‘sensory history’ may… Continue Reading “What It Feels Like for a Girl: Gendering the History of the Senses”
Category: Beauty, Consumerism, Essays, France, Gender, Media and Culture, Modernity, Sensory History, Uncategorized, Visual Culture, Visual history, Women's HistoryTags: fashion, Featured, gender history, Methodologies, Paris, Sensory History, theatre, Visual Culture, women
WILL BURGESS During the summer of 2019, I volunteered at the V&A’s Lansbury Micro Museum in Poplar, East London, to help run an exhibition called For the Love of Things. The exhibition put the personal collections of the museum’s visitors on display, its shelves changing… Continue Reading “Collecting Contexts – Why Do We Collect?”
Category: Britain, Collecting, Commemoration, Contemporary, Decolonisation, Essays, Material Culture, Materiality, museums, Public History, Visual art, Visual CultureTags: Collecting, curation, Decolonisation, Featured, Hans Sloane, Lansbury, Material Culture, museums, Robin Hood Gardens
Posted on January 13, 2021
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KERRY LOVE A main principle of material culture theory (the study of objects and their relationships to people) is that they can reflect or shape the people who lived alongside them in any given time. I have always enjoyed studying objects more than any… Continue Reading “Material Culture and Identities: The Case of Eighteenth Century Toby Jugs”
Category: Britain, Collecting, Essays, Gender, Material Culture, Materiality, Methodologies, Primary Sources, Uncategorized, Visual art, Visual CultureTags: British identity, Featured, Fillpot, Gender, John Bull, Material Culture, methodology, pubs, Toby Jugs