Clothing was used as not only a way to display ones’ membership to a certain group but it was also a way for Muslims and Jews to differentiate themselves from Christians. The idea of integration and miscegenation was such a…
Societies that are dominated by the importance of kinship, costume becomes one way to express and display that membership. Societies have long used costume to distinguish themselves from other tribes and the Ancient Egyptians are no exception. Each piece of…
Beatrice Webb was the third investigator in Charles Booth’s East End census project. She was his cousin by marriage, and is not typically associated with Life and Labour of the People in London because her interviews were never formally published…
Ever since their modern commercialization, the Ripper murders have been accused of promoting misogyny. Feminists have argued that the creation of the “Ripper industry” has “glamorized violence against women, fetishized the murder of prostitutes, and commercially exploited real-life murder victims”…
Women in many ways have always been thought to be a driving force in textiles, clothing and what would later become fashion. Even in the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras the changing of fibers to textiles, and textiles to clothing was…
During the last few decades of the 19th century, the East End of London became “ground zero” for social reformers. With its high density of working poor citizens, advocates of change published many reports using East End slums as their…
Alright, so I’ve taken a relatively long detour but I hope my past research regarding the relationship between enclosure and urbanization establishes some common ground for thinking about the state of the East End slums. As I prepare to move…
In societies who worship Goddesses, fashion tends to be very similar between genders, however, when patriarchal monotheistic religions take hold, along with this shift in religion we also see a shift in fashion particularly pertaining to women. Ancient Egyptians were…
In the past few weeks, I have tracked the development of English land policy from the time of the Anglo-Saxons to the 19th century. Now that I’ve spent some time investigating agricultural planning before parliamentary enclosure, I’m going to resume…
Artist and Art Historian: Nazanin Hedayat Munroe Original Artist: unknown Title: Empress Theodora and Her Court Date: ca. 547 A.D. Source: http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2012/byzantium-and-islam/blog/topical-essays/posts/san-vitale Comment: This is a mosaic which can be found in the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna in…
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