All My Dead Friends

Upcoming podcast with your hosts Lora and Sean, living friends and historical detectives. @lorainnes @seanmcguire92

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

Fashion has long played with gender roles, garments traditionally worn in a certain context appropriated elsewhere. I love this tuxedo dress by Estevez c1965, the feminisation of a garment so rooted in traditional masculinity @GoldsteinMuseum #1960s #fashionhistory

[Learning Team at Historic Royal Palaces @HRP_learning]

Did you know King James I's two-year-old son, the future Charles I, had his first English #Christmas at Hampton Court Palace?

A little slice of history to get you into the festive spirit this Monday!

[The Freedom Trail @TheFreedomTrail]

"History-rich cities have long had to blend mundane threads of modern life with revered structures, particularly as urban centers boom."
@WSJ's take on the Old Corner Bookstore: "On Freedom Trail: Paul Revere’s House, the Old North Church—and Burritos" https://t.co/ZnaHmv5oi1

[Shakespeare's London @ShakespearesLon]

The Shakespeare window at St Helen’s church, Bishopsgate near where he lived for a while - (near the Walkie Talkie, the Gherkin and the Lloyd’s building since you ask).

[Susan Holloway Scott @SHScottAuthor]

New post: Eighteenth-Century Fashion: A Trio of Petticoats on Display @MHS1791 https://t.co/6H8LaGoBeh

[Costume Society UK @costume_society]

Did you know that the only surviving image of Anne Boleyn actually from her lifetime does not depict her wearing a French hood? CS ambassador @FranScan takes a look at how the ill-fated queen used her headwear as more than a simple fashion statement. https://t.co/rLrdmxnhIl

[Royal Academy @royalacademy]

The RA was born #OnThisDay in 1768, when a petition signed by 36 artists and architects seeking to “establish a society for promoting the Arts of Design” was presented to King George III. Luckily for us, the King said yes. #RA250

[OldSturbridgeVillage @oldsturbridge]

On this day in 1830, American poet Emily Dickinson was born in Amherst, MA. While she is now known for her poetry, most of her poems were published after her death. In fact, less than a dozen were published during her lifetime!
#OTD #ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDay

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

Madeleine #Vionnet was inspired by the ceramics of Ancient Greece in her mid #1920s evening dresses. The palette & aesthetic mirrored decorative pots in beadwork brought to life by the couture embroiderers #Lesage #lesartsdecoratifs

[Kitty Pridden @18thCent_Kitty]

#FridayNightFrills 18th Century dress, an American dress made from British 1730's fabric, worn by Mary Waters, Salem, MA at her marriage to Anthony Sigourney of Boston in 1740. Dress was restyled in 1763 when their daughter wore it at her own wedding via @mfaboston

[Learning Team at Historic Royal Palaces @HRP_learning]

Victoria and Albert adopted the royal tradition of wearing tartan on royal visits to Scotland from George IV, and spread the trend throughout England and France.

Explore Scotland's influence on royal style in #FLRoyalFashion: https://t.co/wrhtV1vQ8T

Image courtesy of @RCT

[OldSturbridgeVillage @oldsturbridge]

Thanksgiving Fact #4: The first national day of Thanksgiving was proclaimed by President George Washington in 1789, as a celebration of the successful installation of the federal government under the new Constitution.

[OldSturbridgeVillage @oldsturbridge]

Thanksgiving Fact #3: The now classic Christmas carol “One Horse Open Sleigh” (also known as “Jingle Bells”) was originally written as a Thanksgiving song in the 1850s.

[OldSturbridgeVillage @oldsturbridge]

Thanksgiving Fact #2: In early 19th-century New England, Thanksgiving was one of the most popular times for weddings, since the harvest was done and families were gathered. #FunFactFriday

[OldSturbridgeVillage @oldsturbridge]

First up – let’s just set the stage. In early New England, Thanksgiving was the biggest holiday of the year, as Christmas wasn’t even celebrated by order of the Puritans who settled the region.

[Fashion Museum Bath @Fashion_Museum]

Friday Treat Time! A close up look at these warm and wonderful crimson crochet silk and metal thread gloves, with silver lace edging in scallop and clover leaf design, circa 1660

[Dr Kate Strasdin @kateStrasdin]

My other favourite #Halloween themed gown that I think I shall have to share every year, a 1973 evening dress by John Bates for Jean Varon, gothic glory.....Happy Halloween! 🕸🕷@Fashion_Museum #1970s #fashionhistory

[Ephemeral Elegance @drapedinhistory]

This painting is definitely some sort of mood. Captions?

L'Oiseleur (The Guitarist) by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1757

[Catherine Curzon @MadameGilflurt]

The Life of the Devil Byron, who was born #onthisday in 1722. Byron presided over his Newstead Abbey court with working forts, mock naval battles and even murder!
https://t.co/siqYZ1Z4d5 #twitterstorians