Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson – 50 years in 50 books
Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson is due to be published on 12 September 2023. Hilary Davidson – an expert on Regency fashion –…
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Fashion at the Edge: Q&A with the author, Caroline Evans
In this short Q and A, Caroline Evans, the author of Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity, and Deathliness (published May 2023) reflects on…
“The Pocket” Design Competition | The Winners
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: A Sensitive History
Fur has built nations, decimated species, subjugated communities and driven fashion. It has inspired great works of art, created fortunes, demarcated society and has…
The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing
In this blog, Amy de la Haye gives readers a taste of her latest book, The Rose in Fashion: Ravishing, which explores how and…
How to Decorate an 18th-century Pocket
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 | Decorate Your Own 18th-century Pocket
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…
Back in Fashion: Globalisation, Luxury & Fast Fashion
Escape Into Art, Look Through the Lens of History, Seek Certainty in Science … To help us all keep on reading over the coming…
The Age of Undress: Neoclassicism, Fashion & “Living Statues”
In this blog, art historian Amelia Rauser places women at the centre of the traditionally “stoic” and “masculine” neoclassical movement. Through the lens of…
Yale Art Books – Looking Forward to 2020
For 2020 we look forward to a new list of beautiful, insightful art books from Yale University Press and our gallery partners. As well…
A Jane Austen Christmas
The month of December sees festivities held across the globe, but in 1775 a family in Steventon, England were celebrating for an entirely different…
The Elizabethan Image by Sir Roy Strong – An Extract
In November 1558, Elizabeth I ascended the throne and was confronted with a politically, socially, and culturally fractured country. The English Reformation had been…
A “Pocket” History of Women’s Lives (1660-1900)
Pencils, a sketchbook, cake, thimbles, keys, money, snuff – women and girls carried a startling array of things in their capacious tie-on pockets throughout…
Gluck: Art and Identity
A notable highlight of the autumn-winter 2017 exhibition calendar is Gluck: Art and Identity at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery. Curated by Martin Pel…
Eleri Lynn Lifts the Lid on Tudor Fashion
We spoke to Eleri Lynn, fashion historian and curator responsible for the dress collection at Historic Royal Palaces, about Tudor fashion, and how dress…
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