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‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

Sebastian Cody explores the challenges of ballet historiography, emphasising the need for rigorous scholarship amidst widespread inaccuracies

November 14, 2024
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Threads that Bind: Women and their Clothing in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

by Cathryn Spence and Cordelia Beattie The saying goes, ‘Clothes make the man’, but in early modern Scotland, many women would have considered clothing to be a central part of their identity. According to early modern legal treatises, married women…

Edinburgh University Press
July 10, 2023

‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

Threads that Bind: Women and their Clothing in Sixteenth-Century Scotland

‘Beware of the ninnies!’ – Thoughts on ballet history

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