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Material Culture & Gender Historian | Trade, Production & Consumption of Fashion, 1500-1800 | Recreation & Making |š Shaping Femininity (Bloomsbury) | Co-I AHRC Making Historical Dress Network | š©š»āš«Senior Lecturer | sarahabendall.com
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Thank you! āŗļø
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AUP was sold by UvA back in 2019 so this is simply a purchase transaction between two commercial companies.
If you have missed all this detail then Iād point you at this excellent article by Guy Geltner:
www.guygeltner.net/blog/2582019...
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š±š± All the new suggested editorial contacts in my letter were t&f people tooā¦
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I just got this too. If I wanted to publish with a T&F press I would haveā¦
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(Literally can find no information about this on their website, socials or in news, so just announced?)
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From Arts & Crafts patterns to medieval archaeology.
These biscuits recreate stained glass fragments found a few years ago in the triforium of Westminster Abbey.
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Really disappointing. I had a great experience with them (copywriting and production) in 2021ā¦ pre AI š
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As someone who has a book coming out with the press I think youāre talking about & who had a real copy editor for my first šwith them, this is extremely disappointing to hear. (Ps in my book I have a case study of some french couturiĆØres in london who counted Hortense & her daughter as customers!)
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Yes definitely!! Both our work is defs showing that thereās a really interesting explosion of Indian goods in the late 17th century that shapes fashionable culture that that people havenāt really written much about (usually just focusing chinoiserie in 18th c, etc)
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Thereās this article too (if you havenāt seen it)!
muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
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@zarakesterton.bsky.social might find this useful or know more!
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Many seem to have been milliners who pivoted towards selling some Indian goods, to just specialising in India goods. Iāve found families of Indian women, where the business passes from mother to daughters š
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They are super fascinating!! And there seems to have been a decent amount of them in late 17th century London too.
I hopefully will have my article on the Indian women Iāve looked at out later this year š¤ - Iāll share the proofs when I have them š
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Congrats Una!!
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Yep, I do the same. My marking for students is just full of pulling them up on this. I fear itās also right wing talking points and ways of talking about groups of people also infecting every day language. Ugh
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This is a huge pet peeve of mine that is so common now. I never noticed it as much 5+ years ago.
It drives me crazy
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Yeah, exactly. What Meta did here is the issue, not necessarily that LibGen exists (and LibGens existence brings up a whole host of other issues to do with academic publishing).
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Hahaha yep