📚Just finished Etienne' exhaustive review of Cooke's 'Global Objects: A Connected Art History.' The book reveals how an object's meaning is shaped by its origin, manufacturing, function as well as physical and sensorial properties. Order placed😊 #ArtHistory #MaterialCulture .

Living with Death Leeds City Museum is an important exhibition exploring attitudes to death through objects and art. A topic we all have to engage with sooner or later.
#bereavement #death #grief #suicide #loss #creativemethids #materialculture #stitch #textiles #assisteddying

Processional banner with St. Begga, 19th century.

#Hoogstraten , Beguinage church.

#materialculture
#CatholicTwitter

Historians of medicine: is there any literature on the changing shape of pills (from round balls to tablets and capsules) in the twentieth century? #histmed #materialculture #mindhive

Year 12 ancient history put their hands to making statuettes as part of their understanding of and appreciation for the creation of material culture #Archaeology #ancienthistory #materialculture

Au programme : grands panneaux d'illustrations peints à la mains et plaques de verre pour lanterne magique ! #histsci #histenseignement #MaterialCulture #VisualCulture #Vienna
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Hey if you enjoy my thrift shoppe posting at all I’m launching a shop on IG! @ materialculture.00 follow if you love things and thingies

Prospective #revolutionary willing to give up his charmed life of 'a ruminating donkey' for the cause.

22 July 1937

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#anticolonial #mnroy #materialculture #archivefever #bombay

The glamour of everyday #archaeology #materialculture

While selecting #textiles for a #materialculture #textilelab for one of my classes, I took a moment to capture the view from my window. There was a nice synergy between the mid 18thc #silkbrocade in my hand and the #sunset 🧡

Just a reminder of the extension to the deadline for the ISECS ECR seminar in July.

Please forward and share widely!

#diasporas
#C18
#exiles
#emigrants
#bookhistory
#multilingualism
#materialculture

#NewPublication
#TextilesAndClothing
#MaterialObjects
#DecorativeHandiwork #Patchwork #Embroidery
#Beadwork #Quilting
#MaterialCulture
#TextilesAndSymbols
#TalismanicTextiles
'Islamicate Textiles: Fashion, Fabric, and Ritual'
by: Faegheh Shirazi
PUB: Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2023

#SilkRoad #TradeRoutes #Materialculture #Afro_Eurasia #Blue_Quran #kushancoins #slavery #ByzantineHunterSilk
Silk, Slaves, and Stupas: Material Culture of the Silk Road
Susan Whitfield
University of California Press 2018
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#Ottoman #Artefacts #Historiography #PreciousObjects #Textiles #Leathers #Literature
#Fabrics #China #Porcelain #MaterialCulture #Artwork #Carpets #Miniature #İznik #Gifts
A Cultural History of the Ottomans
The Imperial Elite and its Artefacts
Suraiya Faroqhi
I.B. Tauris 2016

#OxfordMajlis swings into action to help out Meerut Conspiracy arrestees.

May 9, 1929.

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#anticolonialism #indianfreedomstruggle #archivefever #materialculture #Nehru

A Bombay protest against Mussolini's fascist aggression (the Italian Invasion or the Second Italo-Ethiopian War).

'HANDS OFF ABYSSINIA'

#materialculture #archive #echoes #anticolonialism #imperialism #fascism #freespeech #protests #axispowers #WW2