Dr Serena Dyer
@serenadyer.bsky.social
🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
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✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
She/her
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Lovely short video by fashion historian @serenadyer.bsky.social on the new Marie Antoinette exhibition at the V&A museum
To learn more about the doomed Queen of France, check out our recent episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about her with @100days1815.bsky.social & Jen Brister
To learn more about the doomed Queen of France, check out our recent episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about her with @100days1815.bsky.social & Jen Brister
September 20, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Lovely short video by fashion historian @serenadyer.bsky.social on the new Marie Antoinette exhibition at the V&A museum
To learn more about the doomed Queen of France, check out our recent episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about her with @100days1815.bsky.social & Jen Brister
To learn more about the doomed Queen of France, check out our recent episode of BBC YOU’RE DEAD TO ME about her with @100days1815.bsky.social & Jen Brister
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“When a woman chose her gown…she was making a statement about her place in the world.” - @serenadyer.bsky.social #18thcentury #gowns #fashion #clothing #history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GlS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GlS...
What did 18th-Century Women *REALLY* Wear?
YouTube video by Serena Dyer
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September 13, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“When a woman chose her gown…she was making a statement about her place in the world.” - @serenadyer.bsky.social #18thcentury #gowns #fashion #clothing #history
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GlS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GlS...
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Love this video about 17th-century clothing from @serenadyer.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/shorts/uG3uL... #fashion #history #clothing #17thcentury #women
Did pregnant women really wear corsets in the past?
YouTube video by HistoryExtra
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September 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Love this video about 17th-century clothing from @serenadyer.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/shorts/uG3uL... #fashion #history #clothing #17thcentury #women
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Received my copy two weeks ago but only able to open the parcel now! Exciting book edited by @sarahabendall.bsky.social and @serenadyer.bsky.social.
More info: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Get 20% off with discount code “AUP20”, valid until 31 March 2025.
More info: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Get 20% off with discount code “AUP20”, valid until 31 March 2025.
March 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Received my copy two weeks ago but only able to open the parcel now! Exciting book edited by @sarahabendall.bsky.social and @serenadyer.bsky.social.
More info: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Get 20% off with discount code “AUP20”, valid until 31 March 2025.
More info: www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
Get 20% off with discount code “AUP20”, valid until 31 March 2025.
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Next week, I'll be having a chat about my new book with @serenadyer.bsky.social as part of the Northampton-Leicester @histassoc.bsky.social programme.
6pm on 11 March. It's online and free to attend - sign up below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...
6pm on 11 March. It's online and free to attend - sign up below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...
In Conversation: Shoes and the Georgian Man
Serena Dyer talks with Matthew McCormack about his new book, Shoes and the Georgian Man, published by Bloomsbury in January 2025.
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March 4, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Next week, I'll be having a chat about my new book with @serenadyer.bsky.social as part of the Northampton-Leicester @histassoc.bsky.social programme.
6pm on 11 March. It's online and free to attend - sign up below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...
6pm on 11 March. It's online and free to attend - sign up below:
www.eventbrite.com/e/in-convers...
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Absolutely thrilled to have won the @cecs-york.bsky.social book giveaway! 😊 Can't wait to dive into this wonderful anthology - many, many thanks to @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social!📖
March 3, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Absolutely thrilled to have won the @cecs-york.bsky.social book giveaway! 😊 Can't wait to dive into this wonderful anthology - many, many thanks to @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & @serenadyer.bsky.social!📖
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For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation
& Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
& Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
Eighteenth-Century Political Participation & Electoral Culture
18th-century Britain is notorious for corrupt and restrictive politics, when few could vote, bribery and debauchery were commonplace. But it was also an age when modern democracy was being shaped.
ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
February 8, 2025 at 7:55 AM
For anyone interested in #c18th political or electoral history & for students researching EPQs, special subjects &/or final year dissertations, do check out the wealth of data & information available on our Political Participation
& Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
& Electoral Culture (ECPPEC) website #skystorians 🗃️ecppec.ncl.ac.uk
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Hello, new followers! CECS is delighted to share a book giveaway: Material Literacy in 18th c Britain, co-edited by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social (CECS’s new director) and @serenadyer.bsky.social (CECS alum). To enter: reply to our post with your favourite #18thC material object / skill
January 27, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Hello, new followers! CECS is delighted to share a book giveaway: Material Literacy in 18th c Britain, co-edited by @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social (CECS’s new director) and @serenadyer.bsky.social (CECS alum). To enter: reply to our post with your favourite #18thC material object / skill
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@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:
January 22, 2025 at 8:31 AM
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are pleased to announce a #cfp for our new edited online collection of Reflective Recreations with @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social We seek short pieces of 1k words around recreative practice in dress & fashion history, museum studies & more! See the call & deadline below:
Spent a fabulous day with part of the 18th-century mantua-making dream team. We’re working on an exciting new collaborative making project with Leicestershire Museums Service 🪡
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Spent a fabulous day with part of the 18th-century mantua-making dream team. We’re working on an exciting new collaborative making project with Leicestershire Museums Service 🪡
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@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
January 6, 2025 at 1:52 PM
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are thrilled to announce that our edited book is out now!
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
It focuses on how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, & reconstructing illuminate understandings around manual labour & material life.
Overview 🧵 on 📕 chapters & our contributors! 👇
Very excited to share that I am now represented by Carrie Plitt at Felicity Bryan Literary Agency ✍️ Working with her and the team at Felicity Bryan has been an absolute delight so far, and I can’t wait to share more about what’s in the pipeline!
December 20, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Very excited to share that I am now represented by Carrie Plitt at Felicity Bryan Literary Agency ✍️ Working with her and the team at Felicity Bryan has been an absolute delight so far, and I can’t wait to share more about what’s in the pipeline!
My piece for BBC Sheffield on the origins of Topshop also went live today! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 10, 2024 at 9:00 PM
My piece for BBC Sheffield on the origins of Topshop also went live today! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I had a lovely time on BBC Radio Bristol this afternoon chatting to John Darvall about the history of tights! Go to 2hrs 51mins to hear the segment. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 10, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I had a lovely time on BBC Radio Bristol this afternoon chatting to John Darvall about the history of tights! Go to 2hrs 51mins to hear the segment. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Wondering what to get the fashion history fans in your life for Christmas? @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social currently has 30% off a huge range of titles, including three of my own books. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-...
December 4, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Wondering what to get the fashion history fans in your life for Christmas? @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social currently has 30% off a huge range of titles, including three of my own books. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-...
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A big welcome to @emmyailish.bsky.social who has started her pioneering PhD on the history of women's hockey clothing with @serenadyer.bsky.social and @hdichter.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social. The project is a collaboration with the Hockey Museum. Full story here www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne...
DMU research to investigate history of women
A DMU research project will shed new light on sportswear culture as it looks to record the history of the uniforms worn for women
www.dmu.ac.uk
November 21, 2024 at 8:44 PM
A big welcome to @emmyailish.bsky.social who has started her pioneering PhD on the history of women's hockey clothing with @serenadyer.bsky.social and @hdichter.bsky.social @icshc.bsky.social. The project is a collaboration with the Hockey Museum. Full story here www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne...
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Thrilled to be supervising @emmyailish.bsky.social on this exciting project along with @serenadyer.bsky.social in conjunction with The Hockey Museum. Can’t wait to see what exciting work she produces! 🗃️
'DMU research to investigate history of women's field hockey clothing and its importance to sports culture'.
Full story at this link: www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne... #sportshistory #WomenInSport
Full story at this link: www.dmu.ac.uk/about-dmu/ne... #sportshistory #WomenInSport
November 19, 2024 at 3:00 PM
Thrilled to be supervising @emmyailish.bsky.social on this exciting project along with @serenadyer.bsky.social in conjunction with The Hockey Museum. Can’t wait to see what exciting work she produces! 🗃️
We discovered this during our house renovation work today. I wonder who Lee and Katie were. And I hope they don’t mind that I just ripped up their c. 1990 tiling.
November 10, 2024 at 11:15 PM
We discovered this during our house renovation work today. I wonder who Lee and Katie were. And I hope they don’t mind that I just ripped up their c. 1990 tiling.
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Lots of new followers today so this is worth reposting! @serenadyer.bsky.social and I have an edited volume forthcoming with amazing chapters from fellow historians and art historians. Please consider asking your libraries to preorder! 📚
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are delighted to announce a project we’ve been working on: our forthcoming edited volume ‘Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe’ is now available for pre-order with AUP! Published 13 Dec!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
November 10, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Lots of new followers today so this is worth reposting! @serenadyer.bsky.social and I have an edited volume forthcoming with amazing chapters from fellow historians and art historians. Please consider asking your libraries to preorder! 📚
Some home renovation updates! Just don’t look down…the floor is next weekend’s task.
November 10, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Some home renovation updates! Just don’t look down…the floor is next weekend’s task.
I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?
November 5, 2024 at 8:52 AM
I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?
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@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are delighted to announce a project we’ve been working on: our forthcoming edited volume ‘Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe’ is now available for pre-order with AUP! Published 13 Dec!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
October 5, 2024 at 10:37 PM
@serenadyer.bsky.social & I are delighted to announce a project we’ve been working on: our forthcoming edited volume ‘Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe’ is now available for pre-order with AUP! Published 13 Dec!
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Learning to do repousee work....Lots of chance to think through your hands at the 'Making Historical Dress' festival at De Montfort University. @serenadyer.bsky.social @sarahabendall.bsky.social #earlymodern
September 13, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Learning to do repousee work....Lots of chance to think through your hands at the 'Making Historical Dress' festival at De Montfort University. @serenadyer.bsky.social @sarahabendall.bsky.social #earlymodern
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Fitting the front of the bodice...
September 13, 2024 at 2:05 PM
Fitting the front of the bodice...
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And the front is now in place...if it needs to be extended later, you will add in additional straps of fabric.
September 13, 2024 at 2:23 PM
And the front is now in place...if it needs to be extended later, you will add in additional straps of fabric.