Charity and membership society promoting the study of academic dress: history, design and use. Universities. Robes. Regalia. Graduation. Ceremonial. Join us 🎓
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We are excited to announce the newest issue of Transactions of the Burgon Society is now available
Volume 22 is over 150 pages with six new articles
If you would like a copy then join the Burgon Society today, digital membership is only £25 burgon.org.uk/join-us
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It has been an honour and a pleasure to share academic dress, graduation gowns, and ceremonial trivia on here but, after 8 years: I’m stepping down
Give whoever picks up the @burgonsoc baton as much joy as you have given me — I will miss you all
Thank you, and adieu
🎓👋
Paul
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How immensely enjoyable is graduation time? Double the fun today as one of our PhD students was also in the band!
@DrJamesDwyer and I in full academic regalia at the @TasmaniaPolice academy, and one of our stellar PhD students. Love them team I work with.
@UTAS_ @TILES_UTAS
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Officially Dr. Rodriguez, MD!!!
Next stop: Urology residency at Mount Sinai/Columbia in Miami.
Happy #StarWarsDay 🎓
📸: ig uncappedcreations
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Universities and Their Mottos: Many universities, as they are established, naturally adopt a logo, a crest and a motto. Some of these mottos have stood the test of time. Others not.
Whatever, it's time for a pointless university motto quiz.
wonderfulhighered.com/2024/0…
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Loyola gave our regalia a good look!
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🚨 The Coronation Roll — the official State record of a monarch's accession and Coronation — is revealed!
For the first time, this historic document has been digitised, and Charles III’s Roll can be explored by the public online:
coronationroll.gov.uk
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Here’s an update on my progress making a Tudor Gable Hood, one of 3 new headdresses I’m making for an event in June.
#historicalcostume #sewing #headdress
‘a rose-red city half as old as time’ — John William Burgon
But when our namesake Burgon eventually visited Petra, 16 years after writing his famous poem, he told his sister ‘there is nothing rosy about Petra, by any means’
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