Sarah Bendall
@sarahabendall.bsky.social
Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |📖 Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | 👩🏻🏫Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
November 4, 2025 at 8:41 AM
My next book, The Women who Clothed the Stuart Queens, has a cover!!! And a preorder link!! Yippee!
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
www.bloomsbury.com/au/women-who...
Proofs are here!! 🖋️📚 @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Proofs are here!! 🖋️📚 @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social
20-30% off Shaping Femininity and other great fashion history books until 20 July on the @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social website! 📚
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www.bloomsbury.com/au/shaping-f...
July 15, 2025 at 11:19 AM
20-30% off Shaping Femininity and other great fashion history books until 20 July on the @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social website! 📚
www.bloomsbury.com/au/shaping-f...
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Lovely to hear papers by Erin Griffey and Caroline Paganussi on the theme of the Dark Renaissance symposium at Uni Melb today!
February 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Lovely to hear papers by Erin Griffey and Caroline Paganussi on the theme of the Dark Renaissance symposium at Uni Melb today!
Come and make a 16th-century Spanish farthingale with me using historically accurate materials and methods, including hoops of bent!! 🧵 🪡
Click the link belie to book and find out more about what you’ll need to bring and what you’ll learn.
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Click the link belie to book and find out more about what you’ll need to bring and what you’ll learn.
linktr.ee/sarahabendall
February 25, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Come and make a 16th-century Spanish farthingale with me using historically accurate materials and methods, including hoops of bent!! 🧵 🪡
Click the link belie to book and find out more about what you’ll need to bring and what you’ll learn.
linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Click the link belie to book and find out more about what you’ll need to bring and what you’ll learn.
linktr.ee/sarahabendall
Join me 17 Feb @ 7pm GMT for my online talk on:
“The Queens’ Dressing Room: Caring for the Queens’ Body & Clothing at the Stuart Courts”
I’ll be talking about the dressing rooms, wardrobe spaces & attendants that I discuss in my forthcoming book.
Sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sarah-bend...
“The Queens’ Dressing Room: Caring for the Queens’ Body & Clothing at the Stuart Courts”
I’ll be talking about the dressing rooms, wardrobe spaces & attendants that I discuss in my forthcoming book.
Sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sarah-bend...
February 3, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Join me 17 Feb @ 7pm GMT for my online talk on:
“The Queens’ Dressing Room: Caring for the Queens’ Body & Clothing at the Stuart Courts”
I’ll be talking about the dressing rooms, wardrobe spaces & attendants that I discuss in my forthcoming book.
Sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sarah-bend...
“The Queens’ Dressing Room: Caring for the Queens’ Body & Clothing at the Stuart Courts”
I’ll be talking about the dressing rooms, wardrobe spaces & attendants that I discuss in my forthcoming book.
Sign up:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sarah-bend...
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:
January 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:
Finally, Catriona Fisk & I discuss our recreation of three maternity foundation garments from the 17th-18th centuries. Using mannequins, models & speculative methods, we tackle some central challenges of embodied dress research & show how maternity garments were shaped by maker and wearer.
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Finally, Catriona Fisk & I discuss our recreation of three maternity foundation garments from the 17th-18th centuries. Using mannequins, models & speculative methods, we tackle some central challenges of embodied dress research & show how maternity garments were shaped by maker and wearer.
@jessiewhchen.bsky.social examines the skill and embodied knowledge involved in creating botanical printing woodblocks. By recreating four 16th-century woodblocks, she explores early modern tools, techniques, and materials, highlighting the insights gained through hands-on experimentation.
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@jessiewhchen.bsky.social examines the skill and embodied knowledge involved in creating botanical printing woodblocks. By recreating four 16th-century woodblocks, she explores early modern tools, techniques, and materials, highlighting the insights gained through hands-on experimentation.
Erin Griffey & Michél Nieuwoudt highlight the value of historian-scientist collaborations in understanding early modern beauty culture. They provide an overview of their experiments on a popular recipe 'to make the face beautiful' & their analysis of its active ingredients.
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Erin Griffey & Michél Nieuwoudt highlight the value of historian-scientist collaborations in understanding early modern beauty culture. They provide an overview of their experiments on a popular recipe 'to make the face beautiful' & their analysis of its active ingredients.
@jillburke.bsky.social & Wilson Poon discuss their recreation of a Renaissance 'anti-wrinkle' cream to explore women's domestic experimentation & know-how. Re-making personal care recipes reveals insights into the sensory world tied to female identity & scientific knowledge.
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@jillburke.bsky.social & Wilson Poon discuss their recreation of a Renaissance 'anti-wrinkle' cream to explore women's domestic experimentation & know-how. Re-making personal care recipes reveals insights into the sensory world tied to female identity & scientific knowledge.
@leoniehannan.bsky.social examines embodied knowledge in early modern households offering a critique of intellectual history's dichotomies. She reveals how domestic practices shaped elite intellectual methods, highlighting the home as a dynamic space where domestic knowledge trickled upward.
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@leoniehannan.bsky.social examines embodied knowledge in early modern households offering a critique of intellectual history's dichotomies. She reveals how domestic practices shaped elite intellectual methods, highlighting the home as a dynamic space where domestic knowledge trickled upward.
Amanda Herbert & @nehavermani.bsky.social explore global culinary translation, examining how European colonisers controlled spice routes & clashed with local practices of bodily autonomy. Using European and South Asian records they explore the use of spices & differing views of authenticity.
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Amanda Herbert & @nehavermani.bsky.social explore global culinary translation, examining how European colonisers controlled spice routes & clashed with local practices of bodily autonomy. Using European and South Asian records they explore the use of spices & differing views of authenticity.
In her chapter, Sue Broomhall analyses how gender ideologies shaped how silk fibre was generated in 17th-century French sericultural texts, showing production was a process involving human & non-human agency, creativity, & entrepreneurship within the framework of gender roles & hierarchies.
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
In her chapter, Sue Broomhall analyses how gender ideologies shaped how silk fibre was generated in 17th-century French sericultural texts, showing production was a process involving human & non-human agency, creativity, & entrepreneurship within the framework of gender roles & hierarchies.
Our introduction synthesises core historical trends (experimental history, making/embodied turns) & presents an agenda for an emerging methodological approach to the history of making. The foreword by @evelynwelch.bsky.social (🙏) & our intro is FREE to read:
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January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Our introduction synthesises core historical trends (experimental history, making/embodied turns) & presents an agenda for an emerging methodological approach to the history of making. The foreword by @evelynwelch.bsky.social (🙏) & our intro is FREE to read:
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@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
Manuscript submitted! 🎉
Now to wait for peer review (and sleep and relax because writing your second monograph that isn’t based on your PhD is hard!!)
Now to wait for peer review (and sleep and relax because writing your second monograph that isn’t based on your PhD is hard!!)
December 23, 2024 at 11:54 PM
Manuscript submitted! 🎉
Now to wait for peer review (and sleep and relax because writing your second monograph that isn’t based on your PhD is hard!!)
Now to wait for peer review (and sleep and relax because writing your second monograph that isn’t based on your PhD is hard!!)
Had a blast presenting our sold out “300 Years of Women’s Fashion” workshop over the weekend with the team at The Sovereign Hill Museums Association & Rare Trades Centre. So exciting to be in a room of eager participants, many with their own making expertise and costuming knowledge!
December 1, 2024 at 12:20 PM
Had a blast presenting our sold out “300 Years of Women’s Fashion” workshop over the weekend with the team at The Sovereign Hill Museums Association & Rare Trades Centre. So exciting to be in a room of eager participants, many with their own making expertise and costuming knowledge!
Just some trims trim left to go!
I’ll be debuting this English gown this Saturday at my “300 Years of Women’s Fashion” workshop 😊
I’ll be debuting this English gown this Saturday at my “300 Years of Women’s Fashion” workshop 😊
November 25, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Just some trims trim left to go!
I’ll be debuting this English gown this Saturday at my “300 Years of Women’s Fashion” workshop 😊
I’ll be debuting this English gown this Saturday at my “300 Years of Women’s Fashion” workshop 😊
Shaping Femininity makes a great Christmas present & it’s currently 30% off until 8 December (on AU, UK, USA, CAN Bloomsbury websites). Lots of other great Fashion History 📚 are also in the sale too!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shaping-f...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shaping-f...
November 20, 2024 at 4:10 AM
Shaping Femininity makes a great Christmas present & it’s currently 30% off until 8 December (on AU, UK, USA, CAN Bloomsbury websites). Lots of other great Fashion History 📚 are also in the sale too!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shaping-f...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/shaping-f...
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an idea you keep thinking about
1) the evolution of women’s work & clothing in long 17thc (using Stuart queen records)
2) dissemination of French style via French migrants & refugees in 17thc
1) the evolution of women’s work & clothing in long 17thc (using Stuart queen records)
2) dissemination of French style via French migrants & refugees in 17thc
November 17, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Bluesky academics, let’s get to know each other! Quote this & tell me 1) a project you are working on & 2) an idea you keep thinking about
1) the evolution of women’s work & clothing in long 17thc (using Stuart queen records)
2) dissemination of French style via French migrants & refugees in 17thc
1) the evolution of women’s work & clothing in long 17thc (using Stuart queen records)
2) dissemination of French style via French migrants & refugees in 17thc
Got my complimentary copy of Rebecca Gibson’s Bad a corset today! @bloomsburyfashion ! It’s a translation with commentary of Ludovic O’Followell’s 1908 French treatise Le Corset. A super useful resource for all the corset enthusiasts out there!!
November 11, 2024 at 7:24 AM
Got my complimentary copy of Rebecca Gibson’s Bad a corset today! @bloomsburyfashion ! It’s a translation with commentary of Ludovic O’Followell’s 1908 French treatise Le Corset. A super useful resource for all the corset enthusiasts out there!!
Excited to be partnering with Sovereign Hill Museums Association to offer a few workshops.
Our first is ‘300 Years of Women’s Fashion’ on 30 November.
Read more about it & grab your tickets via link below! 🎟️
www.sovereignhill.com.au/events/300-y...
Our first is ‘300 Years of Women’s Fashion’ on 30 November.
Read more about it & grab your tickets via link below! 🎟️
www.sovereignhill.com.au/events/300-y...
November 11, 2024 at 5:51 AM
Excited to be partnering with Sovereign Hill Museums Association to offer a few workshops.
Our first is ‘300 Years of Women’s Fashion’ on 30 November.
Read more about it & grab your tickets via link below! 🎟️
www.sovereignhill.com.au/events/300-y...
Our first is ‘300 Years of Women’s Fashion’ on 30 November.
Read more about it & grab your tickets via link below! 🎟️
www.sovereignhill.com.au/events/300-y...
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are delighted to announce a project we’ve been working on: our forthcoming edited volume ‘Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe’ is now available for pre-order with AUP! Published 13 Dec!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
October 5, 2024 at 10:37 PM
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are delighted to announce a project we’ve been working on: our forthcoming edited volume ‘Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe’ is now available for pre-order with AUP! Published 13 Dec!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...