This week has been taken up almost entirely with work, however the postman has been very good to me. I treated myself to copies of Amber Butchart's Nautical Chic, which I've mentioned here before, and James Davey's Broadsides: Caricature and the Navy 1756 - 1815, the companion book to the recent exhibition at the National Maritime Museum ( Read more... )

Hello peeps! Hope you're all well? I won't bore you with the tedious work crap that's been taking up all my time of late, instead have a look at this rather fabulous yooniform that I had to restrain myself from buying when it came up for auction in Glasgow this weekend.


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If anyone is lucky enough to be in London on the 23rd March I can highly recommend going along to the Design Museum where fashion historian Amber Butchart is curating a series of events as part of the museum’s Women, Fashion, Power season. One of the final events is a lecture by Amber herself on Uniform, Power and the Sea. Blurb as follows:

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I've been accumulating pictures of the midshipman's berth over the last while (as you do) and now I'm going to spam you with them :) I love these illustrations, the details are always fascinating and there's always at least one mid getting up to mischief! This one, The Interior of a Midshipman's Birth dates to 1821 and is by George Humphrey. I ( Read more... )

The university were I'm based recently posted these fascinating images from their archive.


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Earlier today a query from author elin_gregory about early 18th century naval uniform (or lack thereof) sent me off to look up Dudley Jarrett's British Naval Dress. Among lists of 18th century contractors clothing orders, mostly comprised of Shrunck Grey Kersey Jacketts, Wast coats of Welsh Red, shirts of Blew and white chequer'd Linnen and Strip'd Ticken ( Read more... )