Sarah Bendall

The Renaissance Society of America is partnering with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) to offer five tuition scholarships (each for one week) to current RSA members who wish to attend the institute in 2026. Deadline November 19, 2025.

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Colonel George Johnson Fellowship in Australian History A 12-month fixed-term opportunity at 0.8FTE, with the possibility of variation work Inviting applications for the 2026 Colonel George Johnston Fellowship in Australian History Base Salary Level A $109...

One year postdoc in Australian history at Sydney Uni - details below. It’s a very short window - please spread among networks

Might suit someone already in the GLAM sector who wants to work on their research/practice - all applications welcome of course

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Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich Apply for funding to support research at Royal Museums Greenwich through our Caird Research Fellowships

Applications for the Caird Fellowships at Royal Museums Greenwich are now open - www.rmg.co.uk/collections/... It looks like a great opportunity to work on a fantastic collection and collaborate with some brilliant staff.

Can anyone recommend a good text / source for sea monsters and imagined marine life in early modern period? Niche request. Cheers!

I shall keep an eye out on Tuesday ☺️

Bloomsbury academic has uk, USA, Canada, AU/NZ websites & shipping. It doesn’t ship to mainland Europe/Asia. Unless ppl ask local bookstores to stock it (unlikely given it’s not a popular history book), yes it’s a lot of ppls only option. This is what I’ve been directly told by European readers

Yay!! Can’t wait to read it!

New programme of 'Applied History Fellowships': launch and introductory event - RHS In 2025-26 the Institute of Historical Research (IHR), Royal Historical Society and DC Thomson will launch a new Applied History Fellowship partnership. Join us at this online session -- 2.30pm on Wed...

Join us on Weds 19 November for the launch of our new co-hosted Applied History Fellowships for postdoc historians, with
@ihr.bsky.social and DC Thomson bit.ly/4ofWArN

Fellowships will develop historical skills for use in workplaces beyond higher education: 2.30pm, 19 November, online #Skystorians

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Just out of the box! Can't wait to read it! A fantastic dive into early modern drugs #histscie #histmed #earlymodern

The great thing about working on early modern academia is you never know if the archive will a) overturn everything we thought we knew about early modern philosophy or b) be nothing but complaints about low pay

Authors not receiving enough free copies of their books has a long history I see!! 😅

Facing Decay: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe By Erin Griffey The pursuit of youth and beauty transcends time periods. As now, women in the early modern period also sought to turn back the clock using cosmetic recipes promising beauty and clear, younger-looking ...

Speaking of new books, I’m so excited to get my hands on Erin Griffey’s new book, FACING DECAY: Beauty, Aging, and Cosmetics in Early Modern Europe.
I’ve heard Erin give talks about her research and it is truly fascinating!!

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Well that’s the thing right, scholarship moves on and we all make mistakes / misinterpret things based on evidence we had at the time. At some point it does need to be corrected! Really looking forward to reading your book!

Hahaha exactly!!

Don’t be worried! It’s widely accepted by dress historians that by 1600 English sumpt laws were ignored. The fact that they a) had to remind ppl of them so often tells us they weren’t following & b) the anxieties about dress in literary texts reflects the fact that ppl were doing what they wanted

No worries!

YouTube video by JYF Museums Getting Dressed | Clothing for a 17th Century English Man at Jamestown

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YouTube video by JYF Museums Going to the Source | Historical Clothing

I know there’s been work done on dress in the Jamestown colony for the living history museum that’s there too which might also be useful given that you’re dealing with English colonies of the early 17thc

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And garments were not restricted to certain classes - so a doublet is a doublet regardless of if it’s the king or a merchant wearing it. It’s usually fabrics and trims, as well as how up to date with fashions (usually coming from the continent) the construction/style is that indicate status.
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You could use these resources in addition to those that go over more elite dress to get an idea of what garments were worn and what they would have looked like.
In England, sumptuary legislation was rarely followed or enforced (and certainly by the reign of James I was pretty much forgotten)
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The Clothing of the Common Sort "Most histories of costume in early modern Britain concentrate on the clothing of the social elite--on the silks and embroidery worn by courtiers, aristocrats, performers, the metropolitan rich. These...

Clothing of the Common sorts (which does also cover middling and lower gentry) by Margaret Spufford and Susan Mee is also a really invaluable resource and also based on probate records:

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I think someone has already mentioned the Tudor Tailors, but their new book gives really thorough breakdowns of clothing worn in that era based off probate data:

www.tudortailor.com/the-typical-...

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Susan Vincent’s Dressing the Elite has a good overview of styles for men and women, and Aileen Ribeiro’s Fashion and Fiction is also great. Maria Hayward’s Stuart style also good for elite dress.
What social sorts are you interested in?

YouTube video by Late Night with Seth Meyers Florence Welch Was Visited by Psychic Cats While Writing Everybody Scream

Right, 'Evelyn's daughter' went on a big American late night show and talked about the Warburg and Renaissance research.

So early modern studies are saved, right? RIGHT? We've got impact now and are cool again?

(It *is* the most incredible place in the world.)

We are starting to get the huge “trucks” aka “yank tanks” in Australia. Not only are their drivers usually utter dickheads and so dangerous on the roads, but they barely fit in any parking spaces so end up taking up 2 at a time. I hate them 😖

I’ve also provided the publisher’s (Bloomsbury) website too. Unfortunately for people in places like Europe & elsewhere around the globe, Amazon is the only place they can get the book. So politely, perhaps you should also read the room - not everyone lives in North America!

Thanks so much David! I’m really excited to tell the stories of some of these really fascinating women that I found in the archives! 🤗

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Book cover shows Queen Mary II on one side and a French dressmaker holding a measuring tape taken from a print from the 1690s on the other side.

My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!

www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...