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Historical Style: Fashion and the New Mode of History, 1740–1830

290 The importance of the material, the tangible, is emphasised by the front cover that shows a plaster cast of the clasped hands of Robert and Elizabeth Browning. Tangible Things demonstrates the benefits of intrainstitutional collaboration and is dedicated to the ‘people who care for and preserve tangible things: museum curators, conservators, conservation scientists, collection managers, registrars, administrators, and volunteers’ (p. v). The authors stress that ‘the mobilisation of material things can enhance any comprehensive historical enquiry ... too often constrained by reliance on written materials alone’ (p. 3). They have done an excellent job of contextualisation, translating material evidence into text and image. As emphasised by the authors, material things ‘do not exist entirely independently of texts, spoken or inscribed; but neither can things be reduced to texts’ (pp. 4–5).