Barbara Burman

Ariane Fennetaux

Illustrated book about the history of tie-on pockets in Great Britain. Detachable pockets worn under the skirt were a commonplace accessory of dress of women throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Study and identification of nearly 390 surviving pockets, of fragile textiles, in museums and private collections in the United Kingdom is combined with evidence from sources like letters, diaries, criminal trials, inventories, novels, advertisements, paintings and satirical prints. This research on practices and materiality reveals pockets as socially and culturally embedded artefacts, makers and carriers of meaning and memory.

A Hidden History of Women's Lives, 1660-1900

The Pocket

Amélie Junqua

Sophie Vasset

Recycling is not a concept that is usually applied to the eighteenth century. “The environment” may not have existed as a notion then, yet practices of re-use and transformation obviously shaped the early-modern world. Still, this period of booming commerce and exchange was also marked by scarcity and want. This book reveals the fascinating variety and ingenuity of recycling processes that may be observed in the commerce, crafts, literature, and medicine of the eighteenth century. Recycling is used as a thought-provoking means to revisit subjects such as consumption, the new science, or novel writing, and cast them in a new light where the waste of some becomes the luxury of others, clothes worn to rags are turned into paper and into books, and scientific breakthroughs are carried out in old kitchen pans.

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