Jeffrey Hopper

Generalist: noun (archaic) A person who questions beyond the answers, investigates around results then teases a solution from chaos; little used after 18th C.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@LandmarkHistory This isn’t going to be much help, but they are similar to pieces from my wife’s family—packed away for safekeeping, but where? Based on the style we’ve always assumed Copeland/Spode 1920s—George V—Georgian. Good luck.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@glasgow_sugar Darcy claimed front row after confronting this morning’s snow outing. His for the day.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

One year ago today at Castle Campbell. Well worth the ramble to reach it. @HisEnvScot @welovehistory

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

The calm before the storm, a brisk morning on 2nd of March 2020 ⁦@stirlingcastle⁩. Brilliant, foreboding, and brooding—spot on. Wanted to visit for years and glad we pushed ourselves to do it.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@JennWongSilver @JLaurel75 Speckpolster is colloquial for flab or padding—your choice. Speck is verbal shorthand. I heard it years ago in central PA, but had to check a dictionary to make sure.

[Eric G. E. Zuelow @EZuelow]

Entire Bayeux Tapestry FINALLY in high res https://t.co/5xaMtbtW4m #History #medieval

[The Georgian Group @GeorgianGroup]

We're delighted to announce that the online archive of The Georgian Group Journal is now live, providing access to over 350 scholarly articles on Georgian architecture and design. Find out more at https://t.co/uECAjbKpBf

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@EHChalus Enjoy the cake. Shortly, 6 of us are meeting at a friend’s farm for pizza and beers and a long slow sigh of relief in the brilliance of a fall afternoon. The anxiety of this week and the past 5 years has been unnerving.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

Descendants just returned the upper piece of Spitalfields silk to ⁦@TheWarnerHouse⁩ after 88 years. It was part of the 1932 inheritance dispersal. Both pieces are Spitalfields silk from the 1730s. The lower piece has seen more light. The colors and silver shimmer.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

The garden is open ⁦@TheWarnerHouse⁩ and with help from ⁦@NHHumanities⁩ & ⁦@NEHgov⁩ we were able to create panels for visitors that tell short histories of the occupants and the enslaved who passed through this house.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

Well we couldn’t have a physical exhibition this year ⁦@TheWarnerHouse⁩, so with help from ⁦@NHHumanities⁩ & the ⁦@NEHgov⁩ we converted our weekly glassware postings into panels & each week a new one is placed on the fence for the public—eventually 25 panels.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@tjlwhitfield @Boston1775 No, but in research on 18th century shoes a decade ago, the terms golashes, pattens and clogs were thrown about in such a way that I wondered if contemporary writers weren’t as strict on the definition of each type. Apologies if I muddied the waters.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@tjlwhitfield @Boston1775 Picture an 18th century leather shoe with a wooden sole. The clasp joins the leather upper side pieces securely over the leather tongue of the clog. Because these are utilitarian, the clasp looks works more like the old galoshes clip.

[Dr. Kimberly Alexander @SilkDamask]

Celia Thaxter's Garden - Bloom Where You Are Planted https://t.co/KM1DYzx7Cu @prescottparknh @UNHCOLA @JRHTweed @DiscoverPortsmo @unhlibrary

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@northumbriana Perhaps, grew up saying mum—but wrote mom, dram, blether, wee, bairn, redd as in to ready or clean, macadam for asphalt, so on, and as my wife points out other peculiarities with active verbs. Remnants of the 18th c. enclave. Left there years ago.

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

Two nails found under plaster during a repair ⁦@TheWarnerHouse⁩. 5 years of research trying to understand 18th c wall repairs & these appear & are similar in height to extant paneling—it’s the 1st solid indication that the room may have had paneling. Maybe not but still..

[Dr. Kimberly Alexander @SilkDamask]

Pleased to share that for a limited time, my book is available for online reading at no cost via @ProjectMUSE & @JHUPress - Treasures Afoot: Shoe Stories from the Georgian Era https://t.co/B2Qc1q0sa3 #SummerReading #materialculture #twitterstorians @womnknowhistory @UNHCOLA

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@DrAlun Finally a real history of Babar the elephant and his family’s rise to power.

[AlexanderThomson_Soc @AThomsonSociety]

And whilst your minds are in Cathcart, can we please encourage you to sign the petition set up by the wonderful team of volunteers at @HolmwoodGlasgow asking NTS to review their decision to close the building till 2022: https://t.co/trIGjO5HBI

[Jeffrey Hopper @JRHTweed]

@glasgow_sugar Yes, I attended UofG as an occasional student planning to continue and although my standing was good and I was invited back a misunderstanding with a tutor ended those plans. C’est la vie.