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Hope you had a good week! Here is a delectable list of the best of the textile history best from around the net this week.

• There are just two videos of Queen Victoria in the British Pathé archive. One is of her funeral  The other is her in Dublin!
• In Ireland and want to get involved with local history? Start here!
• Fashions for April 1821.
• Rolling Stone magazine gives a history of the hoodie.
• Why Shouldn’t Men Knit? -> a booklet from the 1940s, now online.
• Sometimes the ghosts of Knitting Past are machines.
• Ganseys For Dummies – exploding myths around cabled knits of the British Isles.
• This week’s Times Literary Supplement does ‘Art and Craft in the Novel‘.
• The Irish Film Archive is to move premises to Maynooth.
• When is a female doctor not a female doctor? When she is James Barry and spends her entire life as a man in the British army.
• Queen Victoria’s wedding dress - the one that started it all.
• Pablo Neruda’s Ode to Handknitted Socks.
• Ancient Egyptian cotton: a secret revealed.

See you next Monday with a post about Limerick gloves!