A small Sèvres porcelain teapot and cover, circa 1766. For sale at Sotheby's, New York, this week. Decoration inspired by textile and Ikat designs. Amazing.

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Really touched to receive the 2026 Arthur Burns Prize for my paper on medical and maternal authority in Georgian childcare. Arthur was a much-loved, much-missed colleague at the seminar and during my time at @kingshistory.bsky.social. Thank you @long18thsem.bsky.social and @ihr.bsky.social. #18thC

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Delighted to share my latest article in Gender & History ✨ “Gender and Obstetric Violence in Britain, ca. 1750–1830” onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #gendhist #histmed #history

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Duchess Jean is fun. Her comment to a concerned society mama about the paternity of one of her daughters, the Duchess Tree, & the misprint in the Aberdeen Press & Journal of her raising the Gordon Highlanders by offering any man who would join a kiss "a guinea pig clenched firmly between her teeth"

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🗃️🪡 Followers of the fashion history feed should like this!

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