Dear Mourners, Art of Mourning is touring the world, from Los Angeles, to San Francisco, then to ...
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Memorial jewels, particularly those created for national pride, are created during moments of wid...
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“Hair is at once the most delicate and lasting of our materials and survives us like love. It is ...
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What we leave behind is often the memory of the influence we had upon people’s lives. Often, a ti...
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Personal identity and representing the family in jewellery and objects is as much a nationalistic...
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The simplicity and sentimentality of hairwork cannot be understated. It is a material that is int...
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The affectation of white in mourning is ubiquitous, and appears throughout the world in funerary ...
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A question as simple as ‘how was a jewel worn?’ leads to the most complex of answers. The narrati...
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Discovering a beginning is the true way to understand the very essence of a concept. Mourning,&nb...
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Under the reign of George III (25th of October, 1760 – 29th of January, 1820), mourning jew...
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Between 1714 and 1760, the monarchy under George I and George II created a stable and viable mour...
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Having a basic understanding of monarchies in the early-modern period is essential to judging a j...
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Connecting the body to death and the physical elements of the body that are relevant to display w...
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Applying insights and research to an historical artefact bring it to life in a way that no basic ...
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George Washington’s (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) importance to the United States of Am...
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Continuing the look at the use of early late 18th – early 19th century colour use in fashio...
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Dear Mourners, Art of Mourning is touring the world, from Los Angeles, to San Francisco, then to ...
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Memorial jewels, particularly those created for national pride, are created during moments of wid...
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“Hair is at once the most delicate and lasting of our materials and survives us like love. It is ...
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What we leave behind is often the memory of the influence we had upon people’s lives. Often, a ti...
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For the 19th century jeweller, the prospect of colonial Australia would have been a mystery fille...
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Victoria’s reign from the 20th of June, 1837 to the 22nd of January, 1901 was the height and...
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In the first part of this series on a remarkable bracelet, we discovered just how important the 1...
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In terms of human identity and the roots of western modern culture, the 1850 period was the most ...
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