Middling Culture
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Exploring lives, writing & material culture of England's "middling" 1560-1660.@ProfCatherineR @tarahamling @graemeearl @callanjd @mabel_winter @AHewitt25
Joined February 2019
*KLAXON* New digital resource just dropped. Today we launch our Status Calculator. You can use it to indicate a 16th- or 17th-century individual’s social category. It accompanies a new social breakdown of early modern England based on our research:
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TAKE THE MIDDLING CULTURE Social status CALCULATOR FOR EARLY MODERN individuals HERE Note: The calculator, and information surrounding it, will be updated over time in line with further research. S…
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🔊🚀Our new suite of resources have LAUNCHED. Step inside the Shakespearean past with our interactive game and web tour and learn more about the everyday worlds of the 16th and 17th centuries in our exhibition. Links below--please share widely:
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Virtual Shakespearean Parlour Room Interactive game (downloadable) and web tour Ready to discover the 1600s yourself? Middling Culture has created a truly immersive virtual tour – the Shakesp…
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RT @MDPowellDavies: In sunny Stratford-upon-Avon to speak at a wonderfully multidisciplinary day of Middling Culture! . @MiddlingCulture @S….
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Sharing a reminder of our online launch. Come and dwell in the 1600s for a bit on 20th June!.
📢Join us w/ @ShakespeareBT (in person or online) for the LAUNCH of our Virtual Shakespearean Parlour Room & exhibition--showcasing early modern culture--on 20th June. You can join for the day's symposium or just for the launch event from 3.40 to 4.40pm:
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RT @callanjd: Very excited to showcase the work project & partners have done in creating an interactive 17th-century domestic space, replet….
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RT @Paul_Edmondson: I'm looking forward to hosting this special event. Come join us - at Hall's Croft, or on-line, on 20th June. @BSAShakes….
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RT @FloMidlands: Join the PAS West Midlands team at this event hosted by @ShakespeareBT.We will have a selection of finds on display releva….
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📢Join us w/ @ShakespeareBT (in person or online) for the LAUNCH of our Virtual Shakespearean Parlour Room & exhibition--showcasing early modern culture--on 20th June. You can join for the day's symposium or just for the launch event from 3.40 to 4.40pm:
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Exquisite item here and a lovely line about it from Helen Geake: "A mad amount of bling went into the tag, why do this when we can't see them?". @Tostig1066 wrote about Tudor dress hooks for us:
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We are grateful to Michael Lewis, Head of Portable Antiquities & Treasure at the British Museum, for this guest post on “dress hooks.” Identifying the ‘middling sort’ through their …
High class Tudor hook tag found at Pulham Market is 'off the scale'
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RT @callanjd: Brilliant to see this excellent study up; @DrMabel_Winter explores the genesis of what have become water companies--and finds….
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RT @DrMabel_Winter: The article is a product of my time working on @MiddlingCulture and many thanks go to the whole team for their support….
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RT @DrMabel_Winter: Absolutely delighted that my latest article has been published open access with @UrbanHistoryCUP and can be read on Fir….
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Public services and the urban middling sort: the provision of water in Bristol, Chester and Ipswich, 1540–1640 - Volume 51 Issue 3
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Hooray!.
(1/4) Meet @callanjd! Callan Davies (he/him) works across early modern literary, cultural, and theatre history. He is the author of "What is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620." Callan also contributes to Box Office Bears, Middling Culture, and Before Shakespeare projects.
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RT @callanjd: Gobsmacking late 16th/early 17th crntury wall painting going up over the door and lintel in Ancient House, Ipswich. Part of a….
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RT @callanjd: This is 17th century window-engraved graffiti. Alise Sparrowe, related to the owner who bought Ancient House, Ipswich, in 160….
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RT @callanjd: 16th-century carved blacksmith plies his trade in the shadow of Ipswich’s civic church St Mary le Tower @MiddlingCulture http….
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RT @callanjd: Getting 'mayhemings' &'disorders' ready for May Day 2023. Join @RosePlayhouse on 1st May, when I'll be asking: what made a go….
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RT @ProfCatherineR: The rows were what I most wanted to experience in Chester for @MiddlingCulture - double decker town with fascinating vi….
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Our pilgrimage has taken to the (slightly revamped) home of the painting dynasty of the Randle Holmeses (all 3 of them!). (And a chance to warm up.)
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Daniel King described this in 1600 as “a very delightful Meadow place, used for a Cow-pasture in Summer-time; and all the year for a wholesome and pleasant Walk by the side of Dee; and for Recreations of Shooting, Bowling, & such other Exercises, & by running Horses”.
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