Tag: material history
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sock of the week no.7
what might a pair of seventeenth-century stockings say about the body that once wore them?
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sock of the week no. 6: clocks and socks
an image connecting the histories of eighteenth-century intimate apparel, government taxation, and the democratisation of timekeeping
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sticks
If you stood the course through my radio burblings the other day, you might have heard me mention the thing that I’d like to contribute to the BBC / British Museum’s History of the World in 100 objects. I thought you might be interested to see it. While I was researching my piece for the…