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Middling Culture is a major Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project that aims to transform our understanding of how reading, writing, and material culture fitted into the everyday lives of England’s “middling” people—neither the very rich nor the very poor—in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These were the literate, urban households whose members engaged with a variety of cultural forms for work and beyond.

project resource launch, 20th June 2024:

Our immersive game and online exhibition launch on the 20th June 2024. Explore the Shakespearean Memory Parlour and discover the textures, objects, memories, and sounds of the past…

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How to approach reconstructing an Elizabethan/Jacobean room in 8 (not so easy) steps

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Last year, Middling Culture embarked on an ambitious project to digitally recreate an upper-middling status room from the 1620s. The space selected for this reconstruction is a (now) empty room in a house extension from the early 1600s. The property, originally part of an urban house on the High Street in Reigate, Surrey, was dismantled … Continue reading How to approach reconstructing an Elizabethan/Jacobean room in 8 (not so easy) steps

Book a Visit a Virtual Elizabethan/Jacobean Room (National Gallery X)…

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Experience an immersive recreation of a parlour room from Elizabethan and Jacobean England and put your research questions to the test… As we have been discussing on this blog–with much more content to come (including a virtual tour)–the project has been busy creating an immersive virtual experience: a detailed digital recreation of an interactive parlour … Continue reading Book a Visit a Virtual Elizabethan/Jacobean Room (National Gallery X)…

Introducing the virtual early modern parlour

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Principal Investigator, Professor Catherine Richardson, introduces Middling Culture’s newest digital project – a virtual room from the 1620s. Quite a few years ago now, at the start of a book on Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England, I tried to imagine what it was like to be present in an early modern … Continue reading Introducing the virtual early modern parlour

Accessorising in Early Modern England

7 Mar 20227 Mar 2022 by middlingculture, posted in Guest Post

Head of Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum, Michael Lewis, identifies some ‘middling’ dress accessories among the finds of the PAS.