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Cassidy Percoco

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Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her) Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · Nov 13

A thread for my threads!

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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 11h

Okay, new info, now that I have over 400 results. First off, the accuracy hasn't really changed much. Slightly better than a coin flip. A slim majority of people got 2/3 answers correct.

Overall accuracy: Mean is 53% and Mode is 2/3.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 1d

Glad to see that the street-spanning sign is still there!

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Merchant Adventurers’ Hall @merchantshallyork.org · 1d

We interrupt your mid morning tea break to invite you for a constitutional down an old street of York.

Today's saunter is down Stonegate, or the via praetoria to our Roman friends.

Come join us!

We are looking at an oil painting showing a street with buildings of different periods from late Tudor to Georgian and newer Victorian buildings. Shop fronts are brightly painted and people are stood in doorways or looking into windows. Some in the distance is climbing into a carriage.

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Mark Hailwood @markhailwood.bsky.social · 2d

As you dig out your chunky knitwear from the back of the draw, I know you are wondering: 'How did people prepare for winter 400 years ago?'

Read today's post to find out (and whet your appetite for our new book The Experience of Work in Early Modern England)

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The Experience of Work in Early Modern England I: Winter is Coming

This post is part of a series that marks the publication of The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. The book is co-authored by monster head Mark Hailwood, along with Jane Whittle, Hannah Ro…

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 4d

Just two more weeks!

History Symposium @historysymposium.bsky.social · Aug 27

Our fall schedule is finalized and ready for registrations!

All talks will livestream and be recorded on our YouTube channel.

All are offered for FREE!

www.historysymposium.com/online-lectu...

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 5d

My 1920s Cinderella retelling, The Happy Secret of It all! books2read.com/u/470Rd7

A screencap of the Books2Read page, showing the cover of the book (with an illustration of a thin, blonde butch woman in a suit dancing with a slightly shorter brunette in a pink evening dress) and the title, The Happy Secret of It All, with a "Get It Now" button.

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Effie Cyborg @effies.bsky.social · 5d

Escher cake
Vanilla cake, vanilla bean buttercream, one layer of salted chocolate buttercream filling, one layer of salted caramel buttercream filling, fondant (modeling chocolate was too sticky for the cookie cutter)

Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake

Tiled fondant Escher birds in a gradient from white to dark gray on a ball-shaped cake. Each bird has a black outline and other details drawn on with an edible marker

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 5d

Wool has a scent, and I think he finds it threatening so wants to mark it.

He's acting guilty. There's a bit of a smell (but it could be the litter box). 🤔

Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 5d

I left Clyde alone with two bags of what I think is combed top, concerned that he would pee on it, and as far as I can tell it's completely dry but I'm VERY paranoid about this.

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 5d

Something lovely for the weekend!

Ancient Egyptian gold headband decorated with heads of gazelles and a stag between stars or flowers. Second Intermediate (Hyksos) period, Dynasty 15, c. 1648–1540 BC. 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

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Met Museum photo of an Ancient Egyptian gold head ornament viewed from the front against a grey background. The headband is made of hammered sheet gold, the ends of which have been tapered to a narrower width and rolled to form loops. A string would have threaded through the loops to fasten the band around the head at the back. The front of the band is decorated with a central head of an antlered stag, identified as the Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica). The stag has two large antlers, large ears and a triangular-shaped head. It is flanked on either side by two gazelle heads. The gazelle heads have long ears and long curved horns which point outwards at the tip. Between the animal heads are four 8-pointed flowers or stars. Dimensions: height of central stag 8.9, length of headband 49.5 cm.

Dated to the Second Intermediate period (c. 1648-1540 BC) when northern Egypt was ruled by the Hyksos from the ancient Near East. Said to be part of a group of objects found in the Eastern Delta near Avaris, the Hyksos capital. The headband shows a mix of ancient Near Eastern and Egyptian artistic styles.

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Cassidy Percoco @mimicofmodes.com · 5d

Users on @askhistorians.bsky.social think we're removing good answers that just lack citations. Meanwhile, we're taking down conspiracy theories, jokes, racist screeds, etc.

Joe Neal @vlvtelvis.bsky.social · 6d

Having helped with community moderation off and on since irc, I can say users have no clue what mods remove. Users on an aquarium forum might want mods to take a stronger stance against keeping betas in fishbowls. Meanwhile, mods are taking down hundreds of gore images a day.

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Chapps @chapps.bsky.social · 5d

This large red-figure terracotta astragalos (knucklebone) is thought to depict Aeolus - keeper of the winds - at the mouth of his cave, directing the dance of the clouds. On the other sides of this vessel, groups of women float about on the winds. 🏺

Greek, Aegina, 470-450 BCE. #BritishMuseum
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Red-figured vessel in the form of a knucklebone (astragalos), showing a male figure, perhaps Aeolus - keeper of the winds - at the mouth of his cave, directing the dance of the clouds.

A bearded man - Aeolus - beside the opening of the vase, with a mantle wrapped around his waist, gesticulates with both arms to a band of three girls who dance from the right towards him with joined hands. The foremost looks at him, the second looks back at the third, who is only half seen, her figure being cut off by the edge of the vase. Each has a long sleeved chiton; the two foremost wear a mantle fastened on the left shoulder, and a saccos, which in the case of the foremost is black.

Greek, Attic, made in Athens, 460-450 BCE, from Aegina. Attributed to the Sotades Painter.

British Museum, London (1860.1201.2)

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Dr Richard Asquith @richardasquith.bsky.social · 7d

Earlier this week I had the privilege of attending the launch of the recently restored #medieval hearse cloths at Merchant Taylors' Hall - incredible work by Zenzie Tinker Conservation that really shows off these wonderful objects 💀 #Skystorians #MedievalSky #London

Photograph of one of the Merchant Taylors' hearse cloths framed on a wall. It is flat, with a central panel with foliate motifs and applique embroidered images of tailors' shears, St John the Baptist, and the Agnus Dei. Photo by Piotrowski Photo.

Photograph of one of the Merchant Taylors' hearse cloths framed on a wall. It is flat, with a central panel with rich embroidery showing scenes from the life of St John the Baptist. Photo by Piotrowski Photo.

Two people (myself and Lisa Monnas) talking in front of one of the hearse cloths. Photo by Piotrowski Photo.

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 8d

Whilst the sunny silk satin is all aglow in mid 1860s splendour, this dress is really all about the black lace. Its flounces stand out in contrast so that each motif is evident against the brightest background, Palazzo Pitti @uffizigalleries.bsky.social #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

Back view of a mannequin wearing a yellow satin crinoline style dress trimmed at the neck, cuffs, waist and skirt with flounces of black lace

Side view of the yellow satin crinoline dress showing the arrangement of the broad black lace flounces on the skirt

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Kate Strasdin @katestrasdin.bsky.social · 7d

The value of cloth was such, in the past, that recycling was a regular feature of sartorial life. Silk brocade worn in the 18th century has been completely repurposed here to fit the fashionable silhouette of the #1820s, too precious not to reuse #nasjonalmuseet #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡

A front and back view of a pale blue floral silk brocade dress with high waist and long sleeves that have a puff at the shoulder. It is fuller at the back and has a ruffle at the hem

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TenderAsHell❤️ @tenderashell.bsky.social · 9d

Some #TealOranges for this #TakeTwoTuesday

TenderAsHell❤️ @tenderashell.bsky.social · Mar 1

TealOranges hoop
completed April ‘24
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Abstract cross stitch mandala design using orange, teal, yellow, tan, gold, and silver thread on black fabric inside a teal hoop, inspired by Jim and Olu

Screencap of Jim and Olu about to almost kiss in s1 e7

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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 7d

At almost 2,000 years old, this child’s wooden toy sword is a remarkable survival from Roman times!

Found in the living quarters of the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda fort in 2017. Dated c.120 AD. Chesterholm Museum 📷 by me

#RomanFortThursday
#Archaeology

My photo shows a Roman-era wooden toy sword made from oak. It is dark brown in colour, displayed against a cream and pale green background. It is carved to look like an adult sword, with a semi-circular handle, a blade with pointed tip, and a semi-circular guard embellished with a centrally-set oval polished stone. The wood is remarkably well-preserved except for a break across the hilt. Excavated in 2017 from the cavalry barracks at Vindolanda, a fort on the Roman Empire’s northern frontier. Dated c. AD 120.

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History and Heritage Yorkshire @handhyorkshire.bsky.social · 7d

Sometimes the most interesting architecture is not that which has been preserved in aspic or the most aesthetically pleasing. It is that which has changed over many years. Tucked along Goodramgate, Lady Row or Our Lady’s Row is York’s oldest terrace, built in 1316 to fund a

Tucked along Goodramgate, Lady Row or Our Lady’s Row is York’s oldest terrace, built in 1316. Though much altered, the crooked timber frame, overhanging upper floor and pantiled roof still tell their age-old story and is a rare survival of medieval urban housing.

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Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social · 8d

OK, ok, I need to stop being coy and self-effacing. I am DELIGHTED that my work in making lesbian history accessible for authors of historical fiction is being recognized in books that used my work. My ultimate goal is to never again hear an author of a sapphic historical say "There's no sources."

Heather Rose Jones @heatherrosejones.bsky.social · 8d

Just finished listening to the audiobook of Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti and had a startling and pleasant surprise in the acknowledgements. IYKYK.

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Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · 7d

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image

Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery

www.theguardian.com

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Brodie Waddell @brodiewaddell.bsky.social · 7d

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...