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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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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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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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
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
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...
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
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...
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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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
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
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!
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!
[Please PM us for a plain text 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!
[Please PM us for a plain text termcard]
October 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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!
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!
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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.
Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.
September 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
You still have a few days left to send in your abstracts!
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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.
Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.
August 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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.
Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.
I manifested this during the #SHSConf2025 pub quiz @louisebell.bsky.social
July 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
I manifested this during the #SHSConf2025 pub quiz @louisebell.bsky.social
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
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!
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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
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
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
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!
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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
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
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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✨
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
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✨
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✨
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
- 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 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
- Finished a second journal article
- Completely transcribed and quantified several account books into Excel
- Read a lot of letters
- Clung onto my sanity
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!
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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...
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April 30, 2025 at 12:00 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...
shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...
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
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!
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...
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
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...
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...
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
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 ✍️
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We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!
February 18, 2025 at 9:17 AM
We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!
Cambridge friends - I'll be presenting my research at the Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar next week on 12 February at 5:15 (in the Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall)
I would love to see some familiar faces there, along with anyone interested in the lifecycle and dress!✨
I would love to see some familiar faces there, along with anyone interested in the lifecycle and dress!✨
February 6, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Cambridge friends - I'll be presenting my research at the Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar next week on 12 February at 5:15 (in the Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall)
I would love to see some familiar faces there, along with anyone interested in the lifecycle and dress!✨
I would love to see some familiar faces there, along with anyone interested in the lifecycle and dress!✨
Today’s excuse for a late essay submission…
The space bar on their keyboard got stuck.
What’s your favorite student excuse?
The space bar on their keyboard got stuck.
What’s your favorite student excuse?
February 4, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Today’s excuse for a late essay submission…
The space bar on their keyboard got stuck.
What’s your favorite student excuse?
The space bar on their keyboard got stuck.
What’s your favorite student excuse?
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✨We are thrilled to be extending our call for Committee applications until the 18 February ✨
Read below for more information, or DM us for a plain text version.
You can apply using the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely!
Read below for more information, or DM us for a plain text version.
You can apply using the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely!
February 4, 2025 at 10:56 AM
✨We are thrilled to be extending our call for Committee applications until the 18 February ✨
Read below for more information, or DM us for a plain text version.
You can apply using the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely!
Read below for more information, or DM us for a plain text version.
You can apply using the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely!
It's really me and my Transkribus procrastination against the world.
February 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It's really me and my Transkribus procrastination against the world.
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We are thrilled to release our Lent Term Card and to share the news of our first session next Monday, 3 February! To tune in virtually, be sure to join our mailing list.
DM us for more information, and we hope to see you there!
DM us for more information, and we hope to see you there!
January 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
We are thrilled to release our Lent Term Card and to share the news of our first session next Monday, 3 February! To tune in virtually, be sure to join our mailing list.
DM us for more information, and we hope to see you there!
DM us for more information, and we hope to see you there!
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We're kicking off the new term with a bang! Be sure to read this week's fabulous post from Sietske van der Veen 'Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City'
Read more on the blog using the link below!
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i...
Read more on the blog using the link below!
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i...
Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City
By Sietske van der Veen ( Twitter/X: @SBvanderVeen; Bluesky: @sbvanderveen.bsky.social) The documentary Occupied City (De bezette stad,2023) contrasts everyday life in Amsterdam’s cityscape today, …
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January 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
We're kicking off the new term with a bang! Be sure to read this week's fabulous post from Sietske van der Veen 'Imagining Jewish Topographies in Occupied City'
Read more on the blog using the link below!
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i...
Read more on the blog using the link below!
doinghistoryinpublic.org/2025/01/23/i...
I humbly ask, no beg, for an academic search engine that consolidates major museum collections into a single searchable database🙏
January 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
I humbly ask, no beg, for an academic search engine that consolidates major museum collections into a single searchable database🙏