
Tudor Fashion – 50 Years in 50 Books
Tudor Fashion was first published in hardback in 2017 and re-released in paperback in 2021. We are re-sharing this fascinating Q&A with author, Eleri Lynn.
Tudor Fashion was first published in hardback in 2017 and re-released in paperback in 2021. We are re-sharing this fascinating Q&A with author, Eleri Lynn.
Barbara Burman and Ariane Fennetaux guide you through the secretive and surprising world of pockets. Plus, read an extract from the book.
Drawing on unpublished photographs and extensive new research, The Bloomsbury Look is the first in-depth analysis of how the Bloomsbury Group generated and broadcast its self-fashioned…
Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson is due to be published on 12 September 2023. Hilary Davidson – an expert on Regency fashion –…
In this short Q and A, Caroline Evans, the author of Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness (published May 2023) reflects on…
In the summer of 2020, we asked dress history enthusiasts from across the globe to get crafty (18th century style!) with “The Pocket” Design…
Fur has built nations, decimated species, subjugated communities and driven fashion. It has inspired great works of art, created fortunes, demarcated society and has…
In this blog, Amy de la Haye gives readers a taste of her latest book, The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing, which explores how and…
In the summer of 2020, we ran a very special design competition to celebrate the release of the paperback version of The Pocket: A…
The Pocket Design Competition 2020 Unlike the pockets found on women’s clothing today, pockets in the 18th-century were highly practical, large, and detachable. Such…
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
In this blog, art historian Amelia Rauser places women at the centre of the traditionally “stoic” and “masculine” neoclassical movement. Through the lens of…
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England were celebrating for an entirely different…
In November 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the throne and was confronted with a politically, socially, and culturally fractured country. The English Reformation had been…
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, thimbles, keys, money, snuff – women and girls carried a startling array of things in their capacious tie-on pockets throughout…