Our Long 18th Century workshop is now accepting paper proposals for Lent Term 2025! We welcome 250 word abstracts on the theme Form and Function by 10 January. Looking forward to another great term ✨

What an incredible honour and privilege to meet “la momie de Strasbourg” yesterday to study her crown of artificial flowers. It’s incredibly rare to see surviving flower accessories from the 17th century, and even rarer to see them in the presence of the young woman who wore them. Unforgettable!

It’s the final session of the term for the Cambridge Long 18th Century Workshop tomorrow — and it’s a bumper edition! We’ll be meeting in the Arthur Quiller-Couch room at 5pm tomorrow and on Teams. Sign up to our mailing list for more details. See you there! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💡🕰️
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I stumbled across this magnificent portrait, presumed to be of Louise Vicomtesse de Polastron, which would be perfect for an article I'm working on. Alas, it's in an unknown private collection and I doubt I'd ever get permission to use it!

Kicking off my posts on this colourful place with an exciting day from last week — a natural dye workshop with the artist Nabil Ali at Cambridge Botanic Gardens! It was such a treat to play around with brazilwood, madder, and buckthorn berries making all sorts of lovely pinks and yellows