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Marlo Avidon
@marloavidon.bsky.social
Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop
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I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

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The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England
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We are thrilled to share our Lent Termcard 📚

We have some amazing speakers lined up for February and March, so you don't want to miss out - be sure to join our mailing list for further updates and to join us online!
January 18, 2026 at 10:48 AM
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If your New Year's Resolution for 2026 was to submit to the Workshop for the Early Modern Period, you are in luck, as the deadline for our Lent Termcard is this Monday, 5 January!

See below for more details!
January 2, 2026 at 10:01 AM
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We hope everyone had a Happy New Year!

Like true early modernists, here is our New Year's Gift to you: a reminder that the deadline to submit to the Symposium is THIS Monday, 5 January!
There is only one more week to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Court Symposium!

We welcome any and all submissions engaging with the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts from various interdisciplinary perspectives. See the attached CFP for further details!
January 2, 2026 at 10:05 AM
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There is only one more week to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Court Symposium!

We welcome any and all submissions engaging with the politics and culture of the Late Stuart Courts from various interdisciplinary perspectives. See the attached CFP for further details!
December 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
The symposium is already shaping up to be a fantastic day of interdisciplinary research - You definitely won't want to miss it!
As the holidays approach, here is a gentle reminder to submit your abstracts for the Late Stuart Symposium, being held at Christ's College, Cambridge, on 4 April 2026.

Submissions are due on Monday, 5 January - Please get in touch with any questions!
#cfp #earlymodern #callforpapers
December 18, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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In case you missed our first announcement, there’s still over a month to submit your abstracts 🪶

We have already received some amazing proposals, and can’t wait to put together a fantastic programme for April!
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
That’s me!
📣Out now on #firstview!

Marlo Avidon (@marloavidon.bsky.social) on 'The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England'

#Fashion #Polemic #Moral #Style 17thc 🗃️👗🎩

👉Read open access: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
November 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
In case you’re on the fence about checking out my new article on the Evelyn family and their paradoxical attitudes towards contemporary dress, check out the abstract below! Or maybe I can tempt you with some of the wonderful fashion prints showing some of the wacky styles of the period
November 5, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I am thrilled to share my new open-access article on John Evelyn, his wife Mary, eldest daughter Mall and their complex, multifaceted relationship with clothing has been published in @historicaljnl.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England | The Historical Journal | Cambridge Core
The Evelyn Family, the Mundus muliebris, and Conceptualizations of Fashionable Female Dress in Late Seventeenth-Century England
www.cambridge.org
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 AM
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We are thrilled to share the CFP for our Symposium, Politics and Culture of the Late Stuart Court, 1649-1714. We hope to bring together a range of interdisciplinary research on this complex and understudied period! #EarlyModern #CfP
October 21, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Beyond excited for this amazing term card!

If you’re interested in attending, but can’t make it to Cambridge, get in touch and I can get you added onto our mailing list for all future Teams links!
We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Termcard!

We have a wonderful line-up of speakers and hope to see many of you there. If you'd like to join us online, be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, where we'll send our Teams links prior to each session!

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October 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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You still have a few days left to send in your abstracts!
We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Term CFP on the theme 'Defining Environments. ' Abstracts are due on 20 September, and we look forward to reading them!

Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Term CFP on the theme 'Defining Environments. ' Abstracts are due on 20 September, and we look forward to reading them!

Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.
August 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
I manifested this during the #SHSConf2025 pub quiz @louisebell.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
As always, I had the best time at #SHSConf2025 ❤️ It was an amazing chance to share some of my current research and meet some wonderful scholars! Thank you to all the team at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for facilitating such an enriching conference!
July 9, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Final couple of touches to the ol' powerpoint slides for #shsconf2025 tomorrow. Come along to the Early Modern Networks: Work, Leisure, and Consumption strand to take a trip into the maritime with me, alongside print trade and fashion with @marloavidon.bsky.social and @joesaunders1.bsky.social
July 7, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Had an amazing first day at #SHSConf2025 - Was so caught up in the excitement these were the only pictures I managed to take (whoops), but can confirm the Black Country Living History Museum makes the best conference venue EVER!
July 7, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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I’ve only had a very quick look whilst running to a panel, but how cool a venue is @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for this year’s @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference?! #SHSConf2025
July 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Fantastic roundtable at the #SHSConf2025 on material culture!

Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨
July 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I realize it's been a long time so figured a Life/PhD Update is slightly overdue! In the last couple months I have:

- Finished a second journal article
- Completely transcribed and quantified several account books into Excel
- Read a lot of letters
- Clung onto my sanity
June 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I'm really excited to share this fun little piece I wrote for the Society for the History of Children and Youth's Digital Childhoods Blog - I've fallen in love with little shoes and hope you do too!

shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...
The Magic of Children's Shoes - Digital Childhoods
Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children’s clothing survive from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While textiles degra...
shcydigitalchildhoods.org
April 30, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s been a while since I’ve been online (shamelessly been in the trenches transcribing account books) but you don’t want to miss out on another exciting term of WEMP!
🚨It might be April Fools Day, but our Easter Term CFP is no joke! This term we're open to papers covering any apsect of Early Modern History - Be sure to get your abstracts in by 18 April!🚨

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April 1, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Really thrilled to share the final piece of my Samuel Pepys project. It was a joy to be invited to film in the Pepys Library!

Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible.

Check it out on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...
Pepys' Guilty Pleasure
YouTube video by Cambridge University
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February 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
This is almost certainly a Cambridge thing, but I've been asked if I'm named after Christopher Marlowe 3 times in the last 5 days... I must give off Renaissance playwright energy ✍️
February 18, 2025 at 9:21 AM