Hannah Scott
@drhannahlscott.bsky.social
Researcher | France, popular culture, music, dance, theatre, book enthusiast | Scribbler of children's stories | Embroiderer
And a personal favourite - Zola in a frock and bonnet going to do 'research' at the ladies' department store.
Reminds me of something...
Reminds me of something...
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
And a personal favourite - Zola in a frock and bonnet going to do 'research' at the ladies' department store.
Reminds me of something...
Reminds me of something...
A programme from the Folies-Bergere - someone trying to note down a particularly catchy ditty
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A programme from the Folies-Bergere - someone trying to note down a particularly catchy ditty
Samplers from a young Simone Vernerey in the 1920s, and her 1st prize for promptness, good conduct, lessons, homework, reading, spelling, sciences, history, geography and calculus, and 2nd prize for sewing.
A special magic finding these 100-year-old pieces of a young girl's handiwork.
A special magic finding these 100-year-old pieces of a young girl's handiwork.
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Samplers from a young Simone Vernerey in the 1920s, and her 1st prize for promptness, good conduct, lessons, homework, reading, spelling, sciences, history, geography and calculus, and 2nd prize for sewing.
A special magic finding these 100-year-old pieces of a young girl's handiwork.
A special magic finding these 100-year-old pieces of a young girl's handiwork.
Fancy a cheeky night at the theatre, despite Paris being under siege?
How about a crowd-funder gig for a canon or machine gun to fight those rascal Prussians?
How about a crowd-funder gig for a canon or machine gun to fight those rascal Prussians?
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Fancy a cheeky night at the theatre, despite Paris being under siege?
How about a crowd-funder gig for a canon or machine gun to fight those rascal Prussians?
How about a crowd-funder gig for a canon or machine gun to fight those rascal Prussians?
Outrageously loud tartan silk ribbons from 1837-1840 - from a book of *6300* samples
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Outrageously loud tartan silk ribbons from 1837-1840 - from a book of *6300* samples
Six days, five libraries, 92 documents…
Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:
Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!
Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:
Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Six days, five libraries, 92 documents…
Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:
Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!
Some of my favourite things to have stumbled on in the Paris archives this week:
Saucy goings-on at the Moulin-Rouge - radiology and ultrasound live show, come see your heart beating, stomach working, and bones moving about in their joints!
My first attempt at making a set of mid-nineteenth century undies and corset.
Step aside Marks and Spencer.
Step aside Marks and Spencer.
August 14, 2025 at 3:20 PM
My first attempt at making a set of mid-nineteenth century undies and corset.
Step aside Marks and Spencer.
Step aside Marks and Spencer.
My wonderful Nana never threw away anything sentimental - so today I came across her stash of birthday cards from her and my Grandad’s 21st birthdays in 1941 and 1944, lovingly saved for 80 years.
And a massive hand-whittled wooden key from the Navy and Wrens chaps she worked with through WWII.
And a massive hand-whittled wooden key from the Navy and Wrens chaps she worked with through WWII.
July 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
My wonderful Nana never threw away anything sentimental - so today I came across her stash of birthday cards from her and my Grandad’s 21st birthdays in 1941 and 1944, lovingly saved for 80 years.
And a massive hand-whittled wooden key from the Navy and Wrens chaps she worked with through WWII.
And a massive hand-whittled wooden key from the Navy and Wrens chaps she worked with through WWII.
Buzzing after the most wonderful week learning 18th-century costume making skills - now just to get this fancy little number home on the train…
July 25, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Buzzing after the most wonderful week learning 18th-century costume making skills - now just to get this fancy little number home on the train…
Big tartan energy in the 1820s dress workshop today 🏴
July 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Big tartan energy in the 1820s dress workshop today 🏴
Two evenings of solid sewing and the nearly-5-year-old’s birthday picture is ready 🥳
July 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Two evenings of solid sewing and the nearly-5-year-old’s birthday picture is ready 🥳
Chuffed to have finally finished this beast of an embroidery for my mum’s 70th - so SO many hours of work, good job she’s awesome 😅
July 5, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Chuffed to have finally finished this beast of an embroidery for my mum’s 70th - so SO many hours of work, good job she’s awesome 😅
Such SUCH a satisfying day working on the pleated waistline for a late 1820s stage costume for my @britishacademy.bsky.social Talent Development Grant.
July 2, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Such SUCH a satisfying day working on the pleated waistline for a late 1820s stage costume for my @britishacademy.bsky.social Talent Development Grant.
Find yourself contemplating self-defense recently?
Allow the 1890s to tempt you with this Security Revolver Cane! Elegant, deadly, and remarkably affordable.
Allow the 1890s to tempt you with this Security Revolver Cane! Elegant, deadly, and remarkably affordable.
June 10, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Find yourself contemplating self-defense recently?
Allow the 1890s to tempt you with this Security Revolver Cane! Elegant, deadly, and remarkably affordable.
Allow the 1890s to tempt you with this Security Revolver Cane! Elegant, deadly, and remarkably affordable.
This year, I've been lucky enough to receive a @britishacademy.bsky.social Talent Development grant to improve my historic costume making skills, recreating female pop celeb costumes from the 19th c.
So today, I'm starting to make some Really, Really Massive Knickers.
So today, I'm starting to make some Really, Really Massive Knickers.
May 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This year, I've been lucky enough to receive a @britishacademy.bsky.social Talent Development grant to improve my historic costume making skills, recreating female pop celeb costumes from the 19th c.
So today, I'm starting to make some Really, Really Massive Knickers.
So today, I'm starting to make some Really, Really Massive Knickers.
You can also make no fewer than two jaunty pieces of headwear, for all your jaunty needs.
Not to mention this zippy, gaily striped fashion idea straight off the press - the scarf.
Not to mention this zippy, gaily striped fashion idea straight off the press - the scarf.
April 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
You can also make no fewer than two jaunty pieces of headwear, for all your jaunty needs.
Not to mention this zippy, gaily striped fashion idea straight off the press - the scarf.
Not to mention this zippy, gaily striped fashion idea straight off the press - the scarf.
The 1960s crochet book I found in my grandmother's craft box is full of absolute gems.
Want the rugged masculine look? Why not try sporting a crochet tie, holding a copy of the Times, and looking at the cover of the Guinness Book of Records.
Want the rugged masculine look? Why not try sporting a crochet tie, holding a copy of the Times, and looking at the cover of the Guinness Book of Records.
April 7, 2025 at 10:53 AM
The 1960s crochet book I found in my grandmother's craft box is full of absolute gems.
Want the rugged masculine look? Why not try sporting a crochet tie, holding a copy of the Times, and looking at the cover of the Guinness Book of Records.
Want the rugged masculine look? Why not try sporting a crochet tie, holding a copy of the Times, and looking at the cover of the Guinness Book of Records.
A future owner, presumably another studious Pogson, has twice-branded the leather cover with his initials, BP (who needs book plates when you have a branding iron?)
Is it perhaps this BP who practiced writing the days of the week in an elegant fountain pen in the back cover?
3/3
Is it perhaps this BP who practiced writing the days of the week in an elegant fountain pen in the back cover?
3/3
March 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A future owner, presumably another studious Pogson, has twice-branded the leather cover with his initials, BP (who needs book plates when you have a branding iron?)
Is it perhaps this BP who practiced writing the days of the week in an elegant fountain pen in the back cover?
3/3
Is it perhaps this BP who practiced writing the days of the week in an elegant fountain pen in the back cover?
3/3
The inner leaf is dedicated to Wrendenhall R Pogson from his brother Daniel - on May 19th 1790, with the French Revolution in full swing.
Then, like all good gifts from younger siblings, it was later re-appropriated by young master Daniel- in 1793, during the Terror.
What a time to learn French.
Then, like all good gifts from younger siblings, it was later re-appropriated by young master Daniel- in 1793, during the Terror.
What a time to learn French.
March 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The inner leaf is dedicated to Wrendenhall R Pogson from his brother Daniel - on May 19th 1790, with the French Revolution in full swing.
Then, like all good gifts from younger siblings, it was later re-appropriated by young master Daniel- in 1793, during the Terror.
What a time to learn French.
Then, like all good gifts from younger siblings, it was later re-appropriated by young master Daniel- in 1793, during the Terror.
What a time to learn French.
A friend messaged a few days ago to say they'd got me an old French dictionary in a work charity auction.
Great, thought I, just what I need, an out-of-date dictionary.
But then this 18th-century beauty landed on the door step...
A short thread 🧵 1/3
Great, thought I, just what I need, an out-of-date dictionary.
But then this 18th-century beauty landed on the door step...
A short thread 🧵 1/3
March 27, 2025 at 10:10 AM
A friend messaged a few days ago to say they'd got me an old French dictionary in a work charity auction.
Great, thought I, just what I need, an out-of-date dictionary.
But then this 18th-century beauty landed on the door step...
A short thread 🧵 1/3
Great, thought I, just what I need, an out-of-date dictionary.
But then this 18th-century beauty landed on the door step...
A short thread 🧵 1/3
Fancy writing a review for Advances in 19th-Century Research journal - complete with a friendly and constructive editing process?
Looking for reviews of 19th-century recorded media
& recordings inspired by the 19th century.
Get in touch with your proposals and for more details! ✍️
#INCSA
Looking for reviews of 19th-century recorded media
& recordings inspired by the 19th century.
Get in touch with your proposals and for more details! ✍️
#INCSA
March 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Fancy writing a review for Advances in 19th-Century Research journal - complete with a friendly and constructive editing process?
Looking for reviews of 19th-century recorded media
& recordings inspired by the 19th century.
Get in touch with your proposals and for more details! ✍️
#INCSA
Looking for reviews of 19th-century recorded media
& recordings inspired by the 19th century.
Get in touch with your proposals and for more details! ✍️
#INCSA
The book ends with memories from her own wartime, serving in the Paymasters Department in Deal, Kent, & visiting her fiance in hospital after he contracted pleurisy.
This book is such a touching trace of a generation trying to hold on to community & friendship in a time of crisis.
5/5
This book is such a touching trace of a generation trying to hold on to community & friendship in a time of crisis.
5/5
March 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The book ends with memories from her own wartime, serving in the Paymasters Department in Deal, Kent, & visiting her fiance in hospital after he contracted pleurisy.
This book is such a touching trace of a generation trying to hold on to community & friendship in a time of crisis.
5/5
This book is such a touching trace of a generation trying to hold on to community & friendship in a time of crisis.
5/5
Then, as war broke out, the childhood companions who had written little ditties and riddles in the earlier pages return to pen Spitfires and to leave pressed flowers - now only a stain on the page - in shared grief for lost friends.
4/5
4/5
March 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Then, as war broke out, the childhood companions who had written little ditties and riddles in the earlier pages return to pen Spitfires and to leave pressed flowers - now only a stain on the page - in shared grief for lost friends.
4/5
4/5
Next, from her mother Elsie in 1936 - who I've heard of as a needlewoman, but never knew to be nifty at drawing cartoons.
Then, in 1938, a tiny and remarkably detailed painting of the Old Curiosity Shop from a colleague at the Boots Circulating Library in Reading.
3/5
Then, in 1938, a tiny and remarkably detailed painting of the Old Curiosity Shop from a colleague at the Boots Circulating Library in Reading.
3/5
March 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Next, from her mother Elsie in 1936 - who I've heard of as a needlewoman, but never knew to be nifty at drawing cartoons.
Then, in 1938, a tiny and remarkably detailed painting of the Old Curiosity Shop from a colleague at the Boots Circulating Library in Reading.
3/5
Then, in 1938, a tiny and remarkably detailed painting of the Old Curiosity Shop from a colleague at the Boots Circulating Library in Reading.
3/5