Cassidy Percoco
@mimicofmodes.com
Fashion/material culture scholar. Collections manager. Author of Regency Women's Dress, 1800-1830. AskHistorians moderator. (she/her)
Links to my blog, newsletter, and Etsy shop: https://cassidypercoco.carrd.co/
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Cassidy Percoco
@mimicofmodes.com
· Nov 13
A thread for my threads!
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Timeline cleanse:
Snowdrops.
Snowdrops.
January 19, 2026 at 12:20 PM
Timeline cleanse:
Snowdrops.
Snowdrops.
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Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it.
So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!
So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!
January 18, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Blueskis, studies have shown that when folks see or hear about a book more than five times, they are likely to check it out, and buy it.
So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!
So in the spirit of creating buzz, here is the gorgeous cover of THE WESTERNERS, which will be published on March 31!
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HYBRID LECTURE!
"The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe," Emanuele Lugli, Stanford U. & the 2025-2026 SIMS + Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian MSS Studies #medievalsky
February 12 @ 5:15pm EST
More details and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4qkdSoN
"The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe," Emanuele Lugli, Stanford U. & the 2025-2026 SIMS + Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian MSS Studies #medievalsky
February 12 @ 5:15pm EST
More details and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4qkdSoN
The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies and the Center for Italian Studies Fellow's Lecture in Italian Manuscript Studies
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January 16, 2026 at 9:12 PM
HYBRID LECTURE!
"The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe," Emanuele Lugli, Stanford U. & the 2025-2026 SIMS + Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian MSS Studies #medievalsky
February 12 @ 5:15pm EST
More details and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4qkdSoN
"The Fabrication of Borders: Tailoring and Cartography in Early Modern Europe," Emanuele Lugli, Stanford U. & the 2025-2026 SIMS + Center for Italian Studies Fellow in Italian MSS Studies #medievalsky
February 12 @ 5:15pm EST
More details and RSVP here: https://bit.ly/4qkdSoN
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Bernard, abbot of Aberbrothok (Arbroath), awarded the hereditary custody of the Breccbennach of Columba to Malcolm de Monymusk #OTD in 1315. This mystery object was thought to be the Monymusk Reliquary. One alternative hypothesis is that it was a banner bearing the saint’s image. #medievalsky
January 18, 2026 at 7:02 AM
Bernard, abbot of Aberbrothok (Arbroath), awarded the hereditary custody of the Breccbennach of Columba to Malcolm de Monymusk #OTD in 1315. This mystery object was thought to be the Monymusk Reliquary. One alternative hypothesis is that it was a banner bearing the saint’s image. #medievalsky
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A very wet and foggy Bowes castle today.
The stone castle that remains was begun under Henry II in the early 1170s to replace a timber castle built in the site of the former Roman fort of Lavatris. Its hall-keep design and planned village were fairly unusual in England.
#medievalsky
The stone castle that remains was begun under Henry II in the early 1170s to replace a timber castle built in the site of the former Roman fort of Lavatris. Its hall-keep design and planned village were fairly unusual in England.
#medievalsky
January 18, 2026 at 3:44 PM
A very wet and foggy Bowes castle today.
The stone castle that remains was begun under Henry II in the early 1170s to replace a timber castle built in the site of the former Roman fort of Lavatris. Its hall-keep design and planned village were fairly unusual in England.
#medievalsky
The stone castle that remains was begun under Henry II in the early 1170s to replace a timber castle built in the site of the former Roman fort of Lavatris. Its hall-keep design and planned village were fairly unusual in England.
#medievalsky
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New medieval art exhibition at the Cloisters, reviewed by @philipkennicott.bsky.social wapo.st/4pOK4iR [gift link] #MedievalSky
Review | In ‘Spectrum of Desire,’ the Met takes a nuanced look at gender fluidity
An exhibition of medieval art at the Cloisters is small but potent.
wapo.st
January 18, 2026 at 6:19 PM
New medieval art exhibition at the Cloisters, reviewed by @philipkennicott.bsky.social wapo.st/4pOK4iR [gift link] #MedievalSky
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www.sal.org.uk/event/queeri...
"OH I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE"
⚓🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊😱
8 days to go #societyofantiquaries #queer #holiday #britain #history #bsecs #travel #identity #coasts #seaside #historyofadvertisingtrust #designmuseum #skegness #imperialwarmuseum #bishopsgateinstitute
"OH I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE"
⚓🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊😱
8 days to go #societyofantiquaries #queer #holiday #britain #history #bsecs #travel #identity #coasts #seaside #historyofadvertisingtrust #designmuseum #skegness #imperialwarmuseum #bishopsgateinstitute
Queering the British Holiday - Society of Antiquaries of London
2026 marks two tricentenaries: the publication of the iconic Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and the death of the dramatist and architect John Vanbrugh. It also marks the 90th anniversary of the ...
www.sal.org.uk
January 18, 2026 at 10:18 PM
www.sal.org.uk/event/queeri...
"OH I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE"
⚓🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊😱
8 days to go #societyofantiquaries #queer #holiday #britain #history #bsecs #travel #identity #coasts #seaside #historyofadvertisingtrust #designmuseum #skegness #imperialwarmuseum #bishopsgateinstitute
"OH I DO LIKE TO BE BESIDE THE SEASIDE"
⚓🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊😱
8 days to go #societyofantiquaries #queer #holiday #britain #history #bsecs #travel #identity #coasts #seaside #historyofadvertisingtrust #designmuseum #skegness #imperialwarmuseum #bishopsgateinstitute
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Latest WIP sneak peek of my piece for @taplingzines.bsky.social ! I've gone for pencil for my linework this time as I really wanted a softer look thank I usually get with inks.
January 18, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Latest WIP sneak peek of my piece for @taplingzines.bsky.social ! I've gone for pencil for my linework this time as I really wanted a softer look thank I usually get with inks.
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Sweet violet in Ely. #WildflowerHour
January 18, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Sweet violet in Ely. #WildflowerHour
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This was such a clever design for a museum show. The pockets of the c18th were suspended from the waist so here, a recreation of the various layers, like an anatomical illustration. The yellow quilted pockets are original amongst the grey blue of the facsimile, #1740s #VandA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
This was such a clever design for a museum show. The pockets of the c18th were suspended from the waist so here, a recreation of the various layers, like an anatomical illustration. The yellow quilted pockets are original amongst the grey blue of the facsimile, #1740s #VandA #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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Back in 2016, Nursing Clio put together a series called Protest: Past & Present. It was one of the most powerful series we've ever done, showing the power of protest (for good and bad). I'm going to post the essays below 🧵
January 18, 2026 at 2:18 PM
Back in 2016, Nursing Clio put together a series called Protest: Past & Present. It was one of the most powerful series we've ever done, showing the power of protest (for good and bad). I'm going to post the essays below 🧵
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I need to get some washed but unprocessed wool and hand cards so I can make rolags and try to do woollen spinning, because every time I think about it I'm just like ??? how does that work??? and I want to figure it out.
January 17, 2026 at 3:09 PM
I need to get some washed but unprocessed wool and hand cards so I can make rolags and try to do woollen spinning, because every time I think about it I'm just like ??? how does that work??? and I want to figure it out.
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If you are only now learning about THE WESTING GAME, written by Ellen Raskin in 1979 & winner of a Newbery Medal, find it and read it NOW.
It's the best puzzle mystery novel ever, and is illustrated and typeset by Raskin herself (who started as an illustrator and book cover designer)
It's the best puzzle mystery novel ever, and is illustrated and typeset by Raskin herself (who started as an illustrator and book cover designer)
January 17, 2026 at 1:41 PM
If you are only now learning about THE WESTING GAME, written by Ellen Raskin in 1979 & winner of a Newbery Medal, find it and read it NOW.
It's the best puzzle mystery novel ever, and is illustrated and typeset by Raskin herself (who started as an illustrator and book cover designer)
It's the best puzzle mystery novel ever, and is illustrated and typeset by Raskin herself (who started as an illustrator and book cover designer)
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Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
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January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.
1/
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Never forget how they've kept postponing the Actor's Fund Ragtime broadcast.
January 17, 2026 at 2:11 AM
Never forget how they've kept postponing the Actor's Fund Ragtime broadcast.
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Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
January 16, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Ich thynke but litel of a Mondaye bleake
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Tuesday grey and Wednesdaye eke
Thursdaye Ich care nat for thee
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
Mondaye thou kanst fall awaye
Tuesdaye, Wednesdaye, myne herte slaye
No mirthe ys founde upon Thursdaye
Yet Fridaye - Ich am yn love
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Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
Call for applications: LECTIO Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027
www.kuleuven.be
January 16, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Interested to work on our collections? The Call for applications of the LECTIO – KU Leuven Visiting Fellowships 2026–2027 is now open. As in previous years, Special Collections offers a joint fellowship. We will be happy to welcome you!
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COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
January 15, 2026 at 4:41 PM
COVER REVEAL: Call Me Traitor, my sapphic Winter Soldier-esque fantasy! Beyond delighted with this stunning @eliotbaum.bsky.social art with design by Jess Kiley. Preorders gratefully welcomed if it’s your thing! us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Centuries of color, craft, and creativity—Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution is now open for group tours. 🧵✨
Fun fact: Indian cotton textiles were so admired they helped shape fashion and trade around the world. Discover these stories up close with your group through a guided experience.
Fun fact: Indian cotton textiles were so admired they helped shape fashion and trade around the world. Discover these stories up close with your group through a guided experience.
January 15, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Centuries of color, craft, and creativity—Global Threads: India’s Textile Revolution is now open for group tours. 🧵✨
Fun fact: Indian cotton textiles were so admired they helped shape fashion and trade around the world. Discover these stories up close with your group through a guided experience.
Fun fact: Indian cotton textiles were so admired they helped shape fashion and trade around the world. Discover these stories up close with your group through a guided experience.
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The AskHistorians Best of 2025 Awards have been announced!
Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
From the AskHistorians community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the AskHistorians community
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January 15, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The AskHistorians Best of 2025 Awards have been announced!
Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
Whether it's the Beast's books, Bond's booze or Blackfoot butts, come celebrate and enjoy some outstanding public history work!
www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...
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Oh hey, for the early morning crowd . . .
www.standwithminnesota.com
Also be sure to take your morning meds, drink something, eat something. Listen to a song you like. 💜
There are more of us than there are of them.
www.standwithminnesota.com
Also be sure to take your morning meds, drink something, eat something. Listen to a song you like. 💜
There are more of us than there are of them.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 15, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Oh hey, for the early morning crowd . . .
www.standwithminnesota.com
Also be sure to take your morning meds, drink something, eat something. Listen to a song you like. 💜
There are more of us than there are of them.
www.standwithminnesota.com
Also be sure to take your morning meds, drink something, eat something. Listen to a song you like. 💜
There are more of us than there are of them.
An underrated aspect of the "why m/m and not f/f" discourse is the way that female characters get picked apart for every flaw or deviation from what the reader thinks is Correct Representation, and the way that writers try to deal with this in advance in a very tense ouroboros.
January 15, 2026 at 1:28 PM
An underrated aspect of the "why m/m and not f/f" discourse is the way that female characters get picked apart for every flaw or deviation from what the reader thinks is Correct Representation, and the way that writers try to deal with this in advance in a very tense ouroboros.
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TONIGHT! At 8pm UK time, you can enter the mysteries of the fascinating @romanpalace.bsky.social courtesy of #CuratorRob, who will be joining us to talk about the palace and what it tells us of #Roman life.
Tickets: bit.ly/flaevents
Don't miss out - it's going to be great 😃
#Skystorians #History
Tickets: bit.ly/flaevents
Don't miss out - it's going to be great 😃
#Skystorians #History
January 15, 2026 at 11:20 AM
TONIGHT! At 8pm UK time, you can enter the mysteries of the fascinating @romanpalace.bsky.social courtesy of #CuratorRob, who will be joining us to talk about the palace and what it tells us of #Roman life.
Tickets: bit.ly/flaevents
Don't miss out - it's going to be great 😃
#Skystorians #History
Tickets: bit.ly/flaevents
Don't miss out - it's going to be great 😃
#Skystorians #History