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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We are looking for contributors to our panel on Manipulations🤚 – the practice of retouching, repurposing, and reframing objects as they move across cultural boundaries and owners – for the Renaissance Society of America 2026 conference in San Francisco #RSA
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📣 CFP for the next RSA in San Francisco! How objects are manipulated, by whom and why? How do we define these practices? Deadline is August 10 #RSA #arthistory #materialculture #conservationstudies #materiality
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS! We are looking for contributors to our panel on Manipulations🤚 – the practice of retouching, repurposing, and reframing objects as they move across cultural boundaries and owners – for the Renaissance Society of America 2026 conference in San Francisco #RSA
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CFP: CREATING the MUSEUM: EXPLORING the MUSEUM IMPULSE in LOCAL, REGIONAL & NATIONAL CONTEXTS @musgalhistgroup annual conference @NationalGallery 26th-27th Sept 2025 Details: mghg.info/forthcoming-events @SocHistColl @RHGeoHumanities @Nat_SCA @mus_ethno_group @Kew_LAA
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CFP: CREATING the MUSEUM: EXPLORING the MUSEUM IMPULSE in LOCAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL CONTEXTS @musgalhistgroup annual conference with @NationalGallery, 26th-27th Sept '25. Details: mghg.info/forthcoming-events @SocHistColl @SPNHC @Nat_SCA @mus_ethno_group @uniofleicester
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"The history of collecting has sometimes been understood as the history of individual collectors. But collecting institutions (e.g., museums) are worthy of attention because they profoundly impact why we, as historians, look at some things and not others." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
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Do you want to know more about Andre-Charles Boulle and his work? The French Chapter of @SocHistColl is organizing a special visit, on Sept 16, to Chantilly Castle to see their collection and exhibition! 👉🏻thesocietyforthehistoryofcol…
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From the @V_and_A’s curatorship of the Rosalinde & Arthur Gilbert Collection to its repatriation of the #ErosHead, day 2 of @SocHistColl’s #provenance training was a whirlwind of a workshop thanks to @schuhmacher, Alice Minter & @anabelenmunozm.
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Utmost thanks to @luisaemengoni, @BLMalay, Arabic Ilankuberan & Melodie Doumy from the @BLAsia_Africa collections (@britishlibrary) for sharing #provenance histories of Batak, Sri Lankan & Chinese manuscripts respectively. And to @SocHistColl!
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This is next week! Still time to sign up for @SocHistColl lecture in-person and online in Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre, Glasgow. 6pm on 27th October.
James McNaught – ‘William McInnes: a Mercantile Collector in early 20th century Glasgow’ (27 October 2022 at 6pm) societyhistorycollecting.org…
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Excited to be inviting James McNaught @LyonandTurnbull to give @SocHistColl inaugural Scottish lecture - 'William McInnes: a Mercantile Collector in early C20th Glasgow' at Kelvin Hall Lecture Theatre, 27 October at 6pm.
James McNaught – ‘William McInnes: a Mercantile Collector in early 20th century Glasgow’ (27 October 2022 at 6pm) societyhistorycollecting.org…
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Ooh, look at this beautiful new book on the Empress Eugénie by Professor Anthony Geraghty! 🌟🤩
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Coming soon, Arlene Leis, 'Collecting to Collectingism: New Directions in Women's Transcultural Practices', in
Women, Collecting, and Cultures Beyond Europe
@routledgebooks #collectinghistories #twitterstorians
routledge.com/Women-Collecti…
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CFP: @LHMacnaughton et all are organising an conference investigating the cultural and commercial migrations of French 18thC boiseries from their places of production in Paris and the Bâtiments du Roi to the drawing rooms of Britain and the US. More info: instagram.com/boiseriescamde…
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My new fashion and collecting history of #tartan has landed! Based on the Highland dress collection @NtlMuseumsScot, it explores the world of Highland style in the long 18th century through a range of surviving costume and accessories. Take a gander 👉🏻 shop.nms.ac.uk/collections/s…
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Call for Papers | Boiseries: Decoration and Migration enfilade18thc.com/2022/08/01…
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Looking for an obscure auction catalogue of manuscripts (I think!?) from Steven's Auction Rooms Ltd, Covent Garden from late September 1924. Anyone ever taken a look at these? The British Library doesn't have them nor NAL- any idea @ArtMarketStuds @SocHistColl @artmarketleeds ?
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Call for Papers | 2023 Wallace Seminars in the History of Collecting enfilade18thc.com/2022/07/28…
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**call for papers**
Collections and Impermanence: Transfer, Exchange and Disposal
an upcoming PhD/ECR workshop organised by the @SocHistColl
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New Book | Collectionner: Acteurs, Lieux, et Valeurs, 1750–1815 enfilade18thc.com/2022/07/14…