The expert guest for “SHIRT” was Amanda Vickery.

Amanda Vickery is a Professor in Early Modern History at Queen Mary University of London. Her expansive research interests include: the history of British society and culture, gender and family, words and objects, love and power, consumerism and fashion, art and architecture, The Georgians, and post-war British society and culture. Vickery is a dynamic speaker and public figure, whose media work includes two major BBC television series based on her research, The Story of Women and Art (2014) and Suffragettes Forever: The Story of Women and Power (2015). Vickery’s upbringing in a British cotton town fostered her love of social and economic history, and fascination with the warp and woof of work and family, power and emotion, and a life-long love of clothes.

Her award-winning publications include:

• Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (Yale University Press, 2009)
• The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Georgian England (link is external) (Yale University Press, 1998).
• Ed, Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (Studies in British Art, Yale University Press, 2006).

For more on the shirt at the heart of this episode:

Hunting Shirt, c. 1780, United States of America, Museum of the American Revolution.

Related objects of interest:

• Verger, Jean Baptiste Antoine de (1762-1851), Soldiers in Uniforn, watercolor, made in Virginia,1781-84, Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University.
• Reproduced hunting shirts

Further reading:

Anderson, Fred. Crucible of War: The Seven Years’ War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000).

Anishanslin, Zara. “ ‘This is the Skin of a Whit[e] Man:’ Material Memories of Violence in Sullivan’s Campaign,” in Patrick Spero and Michael Zuckerman, editors, The American Revolution Reborn (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016).

Baumgarten, Linda. “Hunting Shirts and Leather Leggings,” in American Material Culture: the shape of the field ed. by Ann Smart Martin and J. Ritchie Garrison (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1997).

Brown, Kathleen M. Foul Bodies: Cleanliness in Early America (Yale University Press, 2009).

Calloway, Collin G. The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation (Oxford University Press, 2018).

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Performance of Jopseph Haydn's Hob III:36 performed and recorded by Gregor Quendel. https://ko-fi.com/gregorquendel