Dr Natalee Garrett

A satirical print form 1777 titled 'The Flower Garden.' A woman stands in profile, half-length. Her enormous powdered hair is adorned with flowers and grapes cascading down the sides. At the top of her hair is a perfectly manicured miniature garden complete with flowerbeds, a temple, and even a tiny gardener.

A personal favourite of the #bighair satirical prints: 'The Flower Garden' (1777). Note the tiny gardener and the temple in the exquisitely detailed hair garden.

#historysky #18thcentury #caricatures #hairhistory #fashionhistory

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I got an email this morning telling me that I have been elected a Fellow of RHS. Academia is very hard right now, especially for ECRs, so it means a lot to have my work recognised by fellow historians 😊

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letter by Christian Friedrich Pfeffel von Kriegelstein, ambassador, to Friederike Luise Auguste von Hofenfels about the marriage of future Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt on September 30, 1785. The couple wed in Darmstadt .

Detail: tiny water-colour painting of Auguste Wilhemine in a blue dress with yellow skirt (or apron). The 'gossip in the letter is about her slim waist, which was expected to change in about 9 month after the wedding

The art of letter-writing in the 18th century. 🤗

The sender - gossiping about the marriage of Max Joseph and Auguste Wilhelmine - painted the figure of the bride wearing an dress from the 1780ies in the top corner of his letter.

Happy St Andrew's Day !
Cathedral ruins, Old Union Cafe, and Butts Wynd, St Andrews, Scotland, UK.

Black and Political: Reconstructing Black Participation in British Politics, 1750-1850 Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

Next Wednesday 3-12 we are holding a joint seminar with @histparl.bsky.social! Join us at 17:30 at the @ihr.bsky.social or online via zoom to hear Dr Helen Wilson discuss ‘Black & Political: Black Political Participation in Britain, 1750-1850’.

Register now! 👎

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Many thanks to everyone who attended yesterday evening. It was great to share my research and receive such positive and useful feedback. An article on this topic is (all being well) forthcoming with Scottish Historical Review next year! 🤞

#scottishhistory #18thcentury

‘A Tartan Belle’: Jane, Duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812 Please enable JavaScript in your web browser to get the best experience.

Tonight Natalee Garrett will be speaking at the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar where she will be discussing her paper on 'Jane, Duchess of Gordon and the Romanticisation of Scottish Identity in London, c.1780-1812'.

Details of how to attend online can be found below:

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Jewelry and comb with shells on it

Jewelry with shells on it

Happy #MosaicMonday! Either a mosaic or mosaic-adjacent, depending on whom you ask.

This parure (jewelry set) was probably made for Caroline Bonaparte Murat, #Napoleon's sister. These stunning pieces were made via pietra dura (the V&A calls it a "hardstone mosaic technique").

Spotted @ V&A. 📸me

Death of a Queen: the tragic end of Caroline of Ansbach - The History of Parliament In the latest post for the Georgian Lords, Dr Robin Eagles, considers the grisly end of Queen Caroline of Ansbach, the botched efforts of her physicians to

Died #OTD 1737, Queen Caroline of Ansbach, wife of George II

As Dr Robin Eagles explores, not only were her last few weeks agonizing, but her death reflected her wider importance to the Hanoverian regime:
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Thank you! This is great, I do love a Gillray.

If you're interested in Scottish national identity, eighteenth-century fashion, and/or women in politics, you may be interested in the paper I'm presenting at the IHR Parliaments, Politics & People seminar next Tuesday. Best of all, it's online!

#eighteenthcentury #womenshistory #Scottishhistory

“More the air of an assassin than of a gentleman”: Duels and attempted murder in eighteenth-century England - The History of Parliament The recent BBC adaptation of John Preston's book - A Very English Scandal - about the trial of the former Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe for conspiracy and

#OTD 1712, the infamous, and extremely violent Hamilton-Mohun duel took place between Scottish Tory the Duke of Hamilton and the Cornish Whig Lord Mohun. Check out Dr Robin Eagles' article on the violent history of duels in 18thc England here: historyofparliament.com/2018/06/07/d...

‘Such a silly fellow I fear his making some mistake’: The convergence of medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England

Very much looking forward to Helen Esfandiary's talk next week on medical and maternal approaches to domestic childcare in Georgian England. All welcome either in person or online @long18thsem.bsky.social @ihrlibrary.bsky.social But please register www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

A book cover for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a cultural history of female beauty by Katherine Aske published by Bloomsbury. The cover is teal blue and depicts an eighteenth century portrait of a white woman in a large, white silk dress with puff sleeves, brown curled hair with blue ribbons, looking towards the sky. There is a large brown curtain hanging behind the sitting figure. The painting is by Joshua Reynolds of Mrs Stanhope as Contemplation.

This week I submitted my manuscript for Being Pretty in the Eighteenth Century: a Cultural History of Female Beauty to @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social This book has been a (long) labour of love and I owe so many thank yous to so many people for helping me reach this stage!

2/2 Dolls' Tea Party, 1730, w/ non-cooperation of pup. Another ridiculously cute scene by normally sharp & satirical William Hogarth, born OTD 1697.

Alexander Roslin, The Lady with the Veil. The Artist's Wife Marie Suzanne Giroust, 1768. Oil on canv

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painting of a man in late 18th century clothing. He has curled grey hair and wears a double-breasted dark coat with a white cravat underneath. On his breast is a silver star.

painting of a young woman in late 18th-century clothing. She wears a light coloured dress with a dark shawl and a bonnet on top of her curled brown hair.

#OnThisDay 1794 the king made the formal announcement of the Prince of Wales's engagement to Princess Caroline of Brunswick...
5 November may have been deemed an auspicious day, but it didn't work out well.
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Awesome piece featuring a white wig with curls on the sides and on top a ship made of gold fabric and embroidery with three masts under full sail (dark pink fabric). The action of 17 June 1778 (also known as the fight of Belle Poule and Arethusa) was a single-ship action that took place off the coast of France between British and French frigates.

Headdress called "La Belle Poule",
replica inspired by the headdress created for Marie-Antoinette to mark a battle fought on 17.6.1778.

The original headdress was created by fashion designer Rose Bertin and Leonard, hairdresser of Marie-Antoinette

(Centre national du costume et de la scène)

Profile image of a young girl in a cream material on a black background within a dark wooden oval frame

painting in half profile of a woman wearing a blue dress with short sleeves and a white headscarf over short dark hair

Born #OnThisDay 1777 Princess Sophia, younger daughter of George III and Queen Charlotte. Her 17th birthday was celebrated with a special breakfast at Frogmore.
There are contested rumours that the princess later had an illegitimate child either with her brother, Cumberland, or an equerry...

A 3/4 length portrait of a white woman with powdered hair, wearing a white gown with a gauzy ruffle at the neckline and a gauzy gold sash at the waist, tied in the back. On her head is a brimmed straw hat with a pale blue ribbon and a large fluffy blue feather. She stands at a small (barely visible) desk on which sits a bowl of cut flowers. She holds a rose isn her left hand, around the stem of which she wraps a blue ribbon with her right hand.

Marie Antoinette [who was born #otd, Nov 2] in a Muslin Dress, 1783, by #ElisabethVigeeLeBrun (French, 1755-1842). Held by Schloss Wolfsgarten; image found at commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ma... #womenartists #artherstory

painting of a woman in 18th-century costume. She wears a black riding hat over her curled grey hair, and a close fitting blue riding costume with gold frogging and edging.

Died #OnThisDay 1786 Princess Amelia, the last of the children of George II and Queen Caroline. She had a particularly bad relationship with her brother, Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Super portrait of her by Hudson at the Yale Center for British Art.
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French actress/opera singer Louise Jacquet looks up at us engagingly from reading an admiring letter, in this exceptional pastel portrait by Jean-Étienne Liotard (c 1750). Such a lively & natural expression! Check out the fine detailing on her clothes, too

Back view of the top half of the of a hand stitched redingote shaped to fit the torso closely. It t resembles a man’s tailored jacket with deep revers and a deep pointed collar at the back

Front view of the 1790s redingote that shows the structured open robe gown with a white petticoat beneath and a white fichu tucked around the neck

Fabric detail of part of the collar of the 1790s redingote showing the covered decorative buttons and the revers of the collar. The fichu is visible tucked into the neckline

This is one of my favourite silhouettes, the sharp structure created by a c1790 redingote. It has the trappings of male tailoring whilst retaining the contemporary expectations of femininity. And as for the fabric….. #LACMA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A seated young woman in a green silk bodice over a white dress sits in a chair and receives a breakfast tray from a standing maid whose head and hands only are visible on the left side of the picture

Jean-Etienne Liotard, The Breakfast (c1754), Alte Pinakothek #c18th #c18 #18thc