Group blog
This is the shared blogsite of Dr Tara Hamling and Dr Catherine Richardson. We are researchers working on early modern material culture and this blog contains information about the various projects we are currently involved with, including news and forthcoming events.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
early modern material culture Catherine domestic interior conference urban history domestic interior decoration textiles university of kent institute of historical research Shakespeare household decorative art Museum of London digital Geffrye Museum weald and downland museum
27 February 2019
From previous posts it’s clear I’m a great fan of Nehemiah Wallington, the puritan wood-turner in London who recorded his inner thoughts and everyday experience in extensive...
3 February 2019
We’re delighted to announce our next big project… The Cultural Lives of the Middling Sort: writing and material culture, 1560-1660 What was Shakespeare looking at...
Domestic Sphere at the top of the lake
3 October 2017
Earlier this month I gave a paper at the ‘Domestic Sphere in Europe, 16th to 19th Century’ conference at the Schloss Schadau in Thun, Switzerland. The conference was run...
A Day at Home in Early Modern England: exclusive taster!
12 September 2017
We’re delighted to announce that our co-authored book, A Day at Home in Early Modern England: material culture and domestic life 1500-1700 will be published by Yale University...