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Claribel-ware: Ballads, Royalties, and the Birth of the Music Industry in 1860s Britain
By Whitney Thompson, Linktree “It would be a curious though a humiliating study,” begins a January 1867 article in the music periodical The Orchestra, “to speculate to what extent the future historian of art in Great Britain (…) will ascribe the decline of song music to the influence of the Royalty system.” Although the “royalty…
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22. A Hand-Coloured Fashion Print
By Marlo Avidon (@MarloAvidon) In the nearly two centuries between the decline of the sixteenth-century costume book and the rise of the late eighteenth and nineteenth-century fashion plate, the late seventeenth century experienced a brief resurgence in printing images of contemporary dress. Created almost exclusively in France and either depicting ambiguous, unnamed mannequins known only…
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Historian Highlight – Benjamin Iago Gibson
interviewed by Jake Bransgrove, @Jake_Bransgrove Historian Highlight is an ongoing series sharing the research experiences of historians in the History Faculty in Cambridge and beyond. For our latest instalment, we sat down with Benjamin Iago Gibson, a first-year PhD candidate at Trinity Hall, to discuss mountains and their roots, Tolkien and C. S. Lewis, and…
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Vernacular material, opinion polling or social survey? Approaching popular testimony in the Mass-Observation archive
by Rebecca Goldsmith @relgoldsmith The field of modern British history has experienced a new ‘turn’ in recent years. Historians like Jon Lawrence, David Cowan and Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite have pioneered the re-use of archived interview field-notes from post-war social science.[1] By and large, this trend has been motivated by an interest in the subjects of social…
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