I passed my viva with minor corrections!
Ruby Rutter
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Historian looking at women’s lived experiences and emotions in the eighteenth-century country house.
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University of Manchester - formerly University of Oxford and the Courtauld Institute of Art
Viva advice please! Mine is on Monday (eeek) and I’m reading through my thesis noticing so many typos and awkward sentences - is this bad news?!
Still on the pockets thing- why do babies’ clothes have pockets? What essentials are they carrying?
I just watched a man fit a whole 2 pint bottle of milk in the inside pocket of his jacket and women can’t even be guaranteed that their clothes’ pockets will fit their phones
I’ve never done it, but I’ve got this intense confidence that I’d be great at topiary
Last night’s viva panic dream went like this:
‘Loved it but why weren’t there more robots?’
‘Oh, erm I didn’t know to include robots in a C18 thesis’
‘You’ve missed a huge body of scholarship in C18 robots, this is really embarrassing’
*whole exam panel laughs*
Do you think aliens watch us launch our pathetic little Soyuz capsules and go ‘awh, they’re really serious about this, aren’t they?’
Isabella RosnerHappy Saturday! Here are two of my favourite 17th-century beadwork baskets, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. The one on the left shows King Charles II and Catherine of Braganza with allegories of the four continents. The one on the right, which shows a courting couple, was worked by Sarah Gurnall in 1659. Most surviving beadwork from the period lacks names and dates.
#textile #beadwork #earlymodern #history #needlework #materialculture
Ok! It has been A DAY, anyone else? - what are your lovely relaxing weekend plans?
You’re in charge of pitching the John Lewis Christmas ad for 2022- what’s your idea?