Does anyone have access to old issues of Costume from 1983? I have a student in need of the following and Dal doesn't have access:

Staniland, Kay, and Santina M Levey. “Queen Victoria’s Wedding Dress and Lace.” Costume 17, no. 1 (1983): 1–32.

Fashioning Acadians is now officially available for preorder! (I'm so excited to see six years of my life finally exist in physical form!)

https://www.mqup.ca/fashioning-acadians-products-9780228018926.php

It's a history of some Nova Scotia #Acadian fashion systems, and also a proposed methodology for extracting social information from material remains - mostly small archaeological finds from domestic manufacture.

"Fashioning Acadians is a history of clothesmaking and dress in Acadia from 1650 to 1750. Through the analysis of four Acadian settlements in what is now Nova Scotia, Hilary Doda uncovers the regional fashions and trends that had begun to emerge prior to the violence of the deportations of 1755. Men’s and women’s wardrobes are described from head to toe, from headdresses and hairstyles down to stockings and shoes, along with accessories such as buttons, buckles, and jewellery."

The book releases October 31st --- pass the word around! #materialculture #dresshistory #atlantic #histodon

My article on Cape Breton overshot is out now in Textile History. This project started out as a look into a weaving style and ended up in human geography and place attachment theory in the Scottish diaspora; quite the ride!

"‘Be sure to incorporate a little history’: Nostalgia and Stories of Place in Cape Breton Overshot Weaving"

https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6ETIAUEQX8JNNP477X4Q/full?target=10.1080/00404969.2023.2189442

I also stumbled over something interesting while prepping my talk on Stuart-era dress spurs. This reference, in 'History Beneath Our Feet'.

The text reads, "Perhaps the most puzzling object of all from this period is an extremely beautiful copper alloy human hand, which was found on farmland near Bishopsteignton. A finger ring, worn on the index finger, and the style of the sleeve cuff are late sixteenth to early seventeenth century period.

"Again it is obvious that this object was originally attached to something else, possibly to some kind of staff or wand. It is similar in looks, but larger, to precious metal pendants of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This artifact has been examined by staff of three national museums who have all said they do not know what the function was."

Read, Brian. "History Beneath our Feet," Merlin Books 1998. P. 120.

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Absolutely having the best time at 'Performing and Resisting Power in Early Modern Life' -- https://letterspowerdiplomacy.wordpress.com/

I love the accessibility of zoom conferences - there'd be no way to get us all together like this otherwise - but I am sorely missing the coffee'n'shop talk aspects of socializing and hearing more about people's other projects.

Very excited to be able to share the cover of my new book with all y'all! "Fashioning Acadians" will be out this fall from MQUP, and it's very shiny.

See here for more information:
https://hilarydoda.com/publications/

@materialculture

Test 2 - will this boost?

I can see in the group page itself that guppe thinks it's boosted my post, but that boosted post is not showing up in either my notifications or my timeline.

Can someone else make a post and tag the guppe group, so I can see what happens?

I spent today coding some of the spurs data I downloaded from the #PortableAntiquitiesScheme and came across a description of a terminal from a post-medieval rowel spur fragment as "fortuitously phallic-looking." Did I click on the image link? Of course I did.

(It looks more like one of those ganache-drizzled Black Magic chocolates to me, but you be the judge. Link is SFW, unless you have a very vivid imagination.)

https://finds.org.uk/database/images/image/id/1053091/recordtype/artefacts

#SpursProject #MaterialCulture #EarlyModern