Doing History in Public

Tag: material culture

  • 8. Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House

    8. Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House

    Inside An Eighteenth-Century Dolls’ House

  • 15. Painting Velvet

    15. Painting Velvet

    by Sophia Feist Cover Image & Fig. 1 – Jan van Eyck, The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele, oil on wood, 141 x 176.5 cm, Groeningemuseum, Bruges (Photo: Wikimedia Commons) One of my favorite paintings is Jan van Eyck’s The Virgin and Child with Canon van der Paele (1434-1436). One of my…

  • Zara Kesterton – Historian Highlight

    Zara Kesterton – Historian Highlight

    Zara Kesterton, interviewed by 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 Zara Kesterton, a second-year PhD candidate at Jesus College and former DHP editor-in-chief. We discuss artificial flowers, French fashion merchants, and…

  • Reflections on an Unstitched Coif

    Reflections on an Unstitched Coif

    by Zara Kesterton, @ZaraKesterton Toni Bucky came across T.844–1974 in the Victoria and Albert Museum during her PhD research into blackwork embroidery. She was hunting for evidence of the geometric stitching, usually completed in black thread on linen, which became popular in England during the sixteenth century. In the V&A collections, Toni found an unstitched…