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Marlo Avidon

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Cambridge History PhD student researching elite women's dress and the creation of fashionable female society in late 17th-century England ✨ aka the Pepys Girl ✨ Organizer of the Cambridge Early Modern Workshop

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Nov 7

Since I’m meeting lots of new people today, I figured I would briefly reintroduce myself!

My name is Marlo and I’m a third year PhD candidate in History at Christ’s College, Cambridge researching elite femininity and the formation of fashionable society in late seventeenth century England

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · 22d

You still have a few days left to send in your abstracts!

Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · Aug 20

We are thrilled to share our Michaelmas Term CFP on the theme 'Defining Environments. ' Abstracts are due on 20 September, and we look forward to reading them!

Please get in touch if you'd like a plain text version or have any questions.

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Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · Aug 20

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Aug 15

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jul 9

(and @amywok1.bsky.social who it wouldn’t let me tag for some reason)

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jul 9

I manifested this during the #SHSConf2025 pub quiz @louisebell.bsky.social

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jul 9

It was so so lovely! Don’t know how I’ll survive pub quizzes without you (and the rest of the dream team!)

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jul 9

As always, I had the best time at #SHSConf2025 ❤️ It was an amazing chance to share some of my current research and meet some wonderful scholars! Thank you to all the team at @socialhistsoc.bsky.social for facilitating such an enriching conference!

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jul 8

Pub Quiz Dream Team 😍

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Kit Barton @kmbarton.bsky.social · Jul 7

Final couple of touches to the ol' powerpoint slides for #shsconf2025 tomorrow. Come along to the Early Modern Networks: Work, Leisure, and Consumption strand to take a trip into the maritime with me, alongside print trade and fashion with @marloavidon.bsky.social and @joesaunders1.bsky.social

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jul 7

Absolute dream team 🤩💪

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jul 7

I feel as though I should also add that my team got third place in the pub quiz 💪

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jul 7

Had an amazing first day at #SHSConf2025 - Was so caught up in the excitement these were the only pictures I managed to take (whoops), but can confirm the Black Country Living History Museum makes the best conference venue EVER!

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Lou Bell @louisebell.bsky.social · Jul 7

I’ve only had a very quick look whilst running to a panel, but how cool a venue is @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social for this year’s @socialhistsoc.bsky.social conference?! #SHSConf2025

Bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds. Looking down a road there are a row of old buildings on the left side. The one closest is obviously a music shop.

Bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds. Small pub called the Elephant and Castle. Red brick work has green, red and yellow tiles on the bottom section of the front of the pub.

Bright blue sky with white fluffy clouds. Looking down a road with cables above. There are buildings to the right of the street.

A green sign with cream writing on reading: this exhibit is closed for a private function. Sorry.

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Social History Society @socialhistsoc.bsky.social · Jul 7

Fantastic roundtable at the #SHSConf2025 on material culture!

Featuring four fabulous speakers - @simonbriercliffe.bsky.social on @bclivingmuseum.bsky.social; @timhitchcock.bsky.social on convict tokens; @anahowie.bsky.social on portraiture & pearl fisheries & Simon Morgan on radical pottery✨

Picture of the roundtable at the Social History Society, showing one man introducing the speakers and four people on the right hand side discussing the topic.

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Jun 13

I realize it's been a long time so figured a Life/PhD Update is slightly overdue! In the last couple months I have:

- Finished a second journal article
- Completely transcribed and quantified several account books into Excel
- Read a lot of letters
- Clung onto my sanity

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Apr 30

And I couldn’t have asked for a better editor 😍

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Apr 30

I'm really excited to share this fun little piece I wrote for the Society for the History of Children and Youth's Digital Childhoods Blog - I've fallen in love with little shoes and hope you do too!

shcydigitalchildhoods.org/dir/shoes-sh...

The Magic of Children's Shoes - Digital Childhoods

Much to the dismay of historians studying the material culture of early modern childhood, few examples of children’s clothing survive from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. While textiles degra...

shcydigitalchildhoods.org

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Apr 1

It’s been a while since I’ve been online (shamelessly been in the trenches transcribing account books) but you don’t want to miss out on another exciting term of WEMP!

Cambridge Workshop for the Early Modern Period @emgscam.bsky.social · Apr 1

🚨It might be April Fools Day, but our Easter Term CFP is no joke! This term we're open to papers covering any apsect of Early Modern History - Be sure to get your abstracts in by 18 April!🚨

[DM us for a Plain Text-Version]

A call for papers presented on a stlistic background with white crumpled, ripped paper and printed latin text. In the bottom left corner is a stack of antique book and a silver inkwell and feather quill.

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Feb 24

Really thrilled to share the final piece of my Samuel Pepys project. It was a joy to be invited to film in the Pepys Library!

Massive thanks to the University Media Team and Magdalene College for making this possible.

Check it out on Youtube:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIyO...

Pepys' Guilty Pleasure

YouTube video by Cambridge University

www.youtube.com

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Feb 18

This is almost certainly a Cambridge thing, but I've been asked if I'm named after Christopher Marlowe 3 times in the last 5 days... I must give off Renaissance playwright energy ✍️

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Cambridge Doing History in Public @historyinpublic.bsky.social · Feb 18

We are thrilled to be opening up submissions for blog posts for Easter Term! Get in touch if you have any questions!

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Feb 6

Here's the title for anyone interested:

‘“Mis wants an upper Coate…”: Sartorial Literacy and the Fashionable Lifecycle in 17th Century England’

It's a very fun whirlwind through the lives and clothing consumption of elite families in the late 17th-century!

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Feb 6

Cambridge friends - I'll be presenting my research at the Early Modern British and Irish History Seminar next week on 12 February at 5:15 (in the Graham Storey Room, Trinity Hall)

I would love to see some familiar faces there, along with anyone interested in the lifecycle and dress!✨

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Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Feb 5

I have to say, the commitment to the bit is pretty exceptional

Marlo Avidon @marloavidon.bsky.social · Feb 4

I feel it’s necessary to add, this isn’t my excuse, it’s from one of my students. I ✨always✨ submitted things on time in undergrad