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‘Turning Botches into Beauty’: The Early Modern Origins of the Pimple Patch
by Marlo Avidon (@MarloAvidon) Today, it’s not uncommon to see someone walking down the street with a hydrocolloid patch stuck to their cheek, chin, or forehead to cover and treat a pimple. While many of these acne patches are designed to remain unseen, a scroll through the websites of popular beauty suppliers reveal a diverse…
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8. Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House
Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House
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10. Cooking with Chestnuts in Winter
by Weiao Xing (@WeiaoX) ‘Fresh raw chestnuts are in season in the winter months. Choose heavy nuts with tight-fitting shells’; this is how the celebrated trio of cookery writers Simone Beck, Louisette Bertholle, and Julia Child introduce this ingredient in their influential work Mastering the Art of French Cooking.[i] With an emphasis on ‘fresh produce and ingredients’,…
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12. A Monument to the Great Fire of London
By Zoë Jackson (@ZoeMJackson1) If you have ever disembarked off the London Tube at Monument, you have probably walked past the memorial from which the station gets its name. This 202-foot (61 metres) high column was built to memorialise the 1666 Great Fire of London, which destroyed thousands of houses and numerous churches in central…
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14. Turkeys and Devils: Jesuits in Parisian Streets
By Tiéphaine Thomason, @teaphaine It should come as no surprise that, in a society of highly variable literacy, satire was often oral. Such was the world of the Parisian street in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This satire was often set to popular tunes to be sung, as well as recited, and stuck up on…
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