Dr Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector This book emphasises Lady Charlotte Schreiber (1812-1895) — also known as Lady Charlotte Guest, née Bertie — as one of the most significant women in the history of collecting. An extraordinary collect...

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth’s long-awaited study of this great Victorian collector has just been published by Lund Humphries. www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

Lady Charlotte Shreiber was a woman who subverted gendered norms and challenged Victorian conventions, Schreiber made major contributions to ceramic history and cultural education, and played an influential role in transnational artistic networks.

@carolinemccaff.bsky.social gives the first in our autumn online lecture series on 21st October. 🧵

Earlier this week I celebrated the official launch of my new book with @lhartbooks.bsky.social at Bonhams auction house in Knightsbridge with a room bursting with excellent people & some wonderful ceramics on display ✨ 📚 🏺 www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...

Full draft of my second book done and sent off to my editor. Wine please 🥂 📚 💤

Lunchtime Lectures: The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber - V&A Academy Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A This talk is part of the free lunchtime lecture series. No booking is required.

Delighted to be giving a lecture on my new book at the V&A Museum on 23rd October- it’s free and open to all www.vam.ac.uk/event/E7WLeV...

Catticus Finch is looking extra floofy and doing some excellent assisting as I continue to edit my book draft 📚

Erika, I couldn’t have done any of this without your incredible support!

Five photos of the same book - on the top row are pics of the front and back covers. On the bottom row are three pics of internal pages, showing both pics and text.

I am excited that this marvelous book is now published! Lady Charlotte was extraordinary in *many* ways, really...

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector
By Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth / @carolinemccaff.bsky.social
www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...
@lhartbooks.bsky.social 2025

The 19th-century heiress whose avid collecting was just part of a rich, scholarly life The exceptional legacy of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, best known for her scholarly collecting of ceramics, is explored in a new biography

Really chuffed with this review of my new book! @theartnewspaper.bsky.social www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/09/02/t...

It’s PUBLICATION day!!! www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...

Lady Charlotte Schreiber

www.artnews.com/t/lady-charl...

Thank you so much to Bonhams Edinburgh for inviting me to give a lecture on my new book and the formidable collector Lady Charlotte Schreiber. Special thanks to Sophie von der Goltz & May Matthews for organising www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

A snoozy Caturday with Miss Catticus Finch

Tales of heroic knights, love, dragon fights & giants…no this isn’t Game of Thrones, it’s the Mabinogion! A collection of Welsh medieval tales- It’s thanks to the remarkable antiquarian & collector Lady Charlotte Guest (later Schreiber) that these stories were rediscovered & translated in the 1830s

Readers interested in women's contributions to the decorative arts will also be interested in this imminently forthcoming book:

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector
by @carolinemccaff.bsky.social
www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...
@lhartbooks.bsky.social, Sept 2025

A book cover with mostly white text reversed out of an azure background. The image is a silhouette of a woman, filled in with Delftware designs, positioned in the right half of the book cover.

Beyond Blue and White
The Hidden History of Delftware and the Women Behind the Iconic Ceramic
By Genevieve Wheeler Brown
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Beyond...

"... allows us to craft a more complete picture of female experience through the lens of material culture."

Embroidered map of Ireland

🧵 How beautiful is this #embroidered #map sampler of #Ireland by Sarah Curran? Coloured #silk threads on a piece of satin backed with linen #canvas, mounted in a modern frame and glazed, 1801.

🪡 Zoom in to see the detail: catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls0....

Book jacket - a colorful porcelain artwork against a black background, with title and author info in white text.

So excited to see an advance copy of this fabulous book!

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector
by @carolinemccaff.bsky.social
www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...

It is forthcoming from @lhartbooks.bsky.social on Sept 19 (should be available in the US warehouse by Jan 2026).

Congratulations Hardeep! 🎉

My first few author copies have arrived 📚 ✨ 📖 feeling completely overwhelmed. You can pre-order your copy here: www.lundhumphries.com/products/lad...

Object handling at the Gilbert Collection today 🤩

Flowers for days @saatchigallery.bsky.social

De Montfort University in legal dispute over axed Dubai campus Ex-partner demands reimbursement for £42 million investment in now-defunct branch campus

'DMU had collaborated with United Arab Emirates-based Study World Education Holding Group, a private company, to build its Dubai branch campus, which commenced operations in September 2021.' 1/2

If you published your first book in French history in 2024, you might like to submit it for the Society for the Study of French History Book Prize, deadline 31 July 2025 and more details here: frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/ssfh-book-pr...

@frenchhistory.bsky.social

Senate House Library announces relaunch of Visiting Research Fellowship Senate House Library and the Friends of Senate House Library are delighted to report that the Visiting Research Fellowships programme has been relaunched.

📣Applications now open for the Senate House Library Visiting Fellowships 📣

In 2025-6 up to two awards of £1500 will be allocated to support a fellowship of up to two weeks.

Deadline: 15th September 2025.

More info 👇
www.london.ac.uk/senate-house...

A photo of the Victorian medicine chest. It is open at the front to reveal glass bottles inside and various drawers containing instruments.

Victorian medicine chest, which contains medications for pain relief, such as opium. It also includes a set of scales, weights, a pill tile, and a spatula. It was probably used in the home or by an apothecary.

Photo: Wellcome Collection, London.

Renewed call for Edinburgh University bosses to be grilled by MSPs on £140m cuts plan A trade union letter cited the potentially ‘devastating’ impact of the cuts

Renewed call for Edinburgh University bosses to be grilled by MSPs over £140m cuts plan
www.scotsman.com/news/politic...

I love this community-led Zine created by the Royal Armouries in Leeds on the ever-fascinating Chevalière d'Éon royalarmouries.org/sites/defaul...

YouTube video by HistoryExtra The 1851 Great Exhibition: everything you wanted to know | HistoryExtra Podcast

So pleased to see that my @historyextra.bsky.social everything you ever wanted to know about the Great Exhibition of 1851 has had over 2K watches- this was fun to record m.youtube.com/watch?v=HGff...