CHORD workshop
Dress, Textiles and Heritage
13 June 2012, University of Wolverhampton
Participants and research interests
Moira Ackers, Open University
Research interests: Textile history
Siobhan Barratt, The National Trust, Knole
Research interests:
Richard Batho, The National Trust
Research interests: Costume construction and conservation. Textile; design-pattern;
social context.
John Benson, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests:
Nick Berthoud, independent scholar
Research interests: English 18th/19th/20th century ceramics.
Emma Burgham, Marks and Spencer Company Archive
Research interests:
Sara Chong Kwan, London College of Fashion, UAL
Research interests: Dress and the senses. Ordinary, everyday dress. Dress and memory.
Oral History and dress. Private and public aspects of dress and fashion.
Catherine Clarke, Walsall Museum
Research interests: working-class history; local social history.
Nancy Cox, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests: early-modern material culture and trade, and historic textiles are
particularly relevant.
Helen Cresswell, V&A/RCA
Research interests: The craft house and textile collection of Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth;
textile collectors and collections; patchwork and quilting; 20 th century embroidery.
Jenny Evans, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests: The Hodson Shop collection; fashion retail history; consumer history.
Helen Fawbert, The National Trust, Knole
Research interests:
Aleksandra Galasinska, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests:
Luz Garcia Neira, Fundação Casa de Rui Barbosa
Research interests: textile design history; textiles and museums.
Madeleine Green, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests: Consumption and material history especially in the long C18th.
Shelley Hamilton, The National Trust, Lanhydrock House
Research interests: Costume conservation and interpretation
Richard Hawkins, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests:
Marion Hundleby, freelance design historian
Research interests: Quilts, textiles, clothes, mainly 19th, 20th and 21st centuries.
Paul Lewis, independent scholar
Research interests: 19th century British industrial classicising ceramics; 19th and 20th
century photographic history.
Katy May, independent scholar
Research interests: Dress history; collecting; collections; 20th century social history,
economic history; the everyday; high street multiples; perceptions of the past gained
through experiences of clothing.
Alice McEwan, University of Hertfordshire
Research interests: Dress and masculine identity in the early 20 th century; the
relationship of domestic artifacts to gender, sexuality and hygiene; the construction of
the exhibited interior in the 20th century.
Ian Mitchell, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests: The relationship between 'traditional' and 'modern' forms of
retailing in 18th and 19th century provincial England; attitudes towards consumer
culture in early modern England, particularly books as objects.
Margaret Ponsonby, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests: historic domestic interiors open to the public, in particular
interpretation issues and public perceptions of conserved textiles.
Sue Prichard, V&A
Research interests: 20th century textile design; domestic production; feminism; folk art
and popular culture.
Amber Regis, University of Chester
Research interests: Victorian literature; film adaptation.
Alexis Romano, Courtauld Institute of Art
Research interests: design history; material culture; twentieth-century dress; French
ready-made clothing industry; dress, gender and identity.
Jennifer Rowley, National Trust, Snowshill Manor and Garden
Research interests: We have a large number of textiles in our collection (currently at a
different property) and I would like to learn more in general
Jenny Sargeant, independent researcher
Ready-to-wear fashion; Fashion of the interwar years; Early fashion retail.
Sheila Shreeve, Walsall Museum
Research interests: Costume and textiles.
Suzanne Smith, V&A Museum
Research interests: Best practice storage and display for Dress and Textiles; Integrated
Pest Management
Jennifer Thomson, Walsall Museum
Research interests: Includes costume history and costume collections.
Alison Toplis, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests: working-class dress and clothing; textile retailing and consumption.
Laura Ugolini, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests: masculinity; menswear retailing and consumption; First World War
uniforms.
Rosalind Watkiss, University of Wolverhampton
Research interests: working-class housing, communities and consumption.
Claire Watson, University of Leeds
Research interests: Yorkshire Fashion Archive.
Lynne C Webster, University of Leeds
Research interests: Yorkshire Fashion Archive.
Rhiannon Williams, University of Derby
Research interests: Contemporary and historic textiles.
Sharron Wise, Smethwick Heritage Centre
Research interests: The use of costume and textiles in museums.
Deborah Wynne, University of Chester
Research interests: Literary representations of textiles; costume drama; heritage film;
19th century literature and culture; representations of the 19 th century via cloth and
clothing; retailing of textiles (esp. Brown’s of Chester); representations of male tailors
and drapers in literature.