The very first Making Historical Dress Conference explored how different ideas about making and researching historical costume and craft intersect.
Articles
Articles
These articles will look into what we know about life in the past, how we can share it and what it meant to individuals and to us today.
This website is a space to share my research into how we lived in the past and how much the culture around us affects us. I want everyone to be able to find history that appeals to them and represents their experiences. This is why I work in heritage, to bring history to life and to reach more people. The articles fit under my main four themes, but you can also sort them by more specific tags.
There are more and more ways a person can describe their gender. Its common for those scared by these developments to reference back to a past where things were simpler. In reality, those in the past also viewed gender as a spectrum, just like we are moving back to today.
My exhibition found stories about clothing – seeing how and what they showed about gender.
Fashion trends return to the same idea and values almost every 100 years. They may have different presentations but there's definitely a repetitive fashion loop.
Most people know 1918 as the first time some women voted in the UK, but women successfully voted in the 1869 election. The suffragists of Manchester led a huge campaign after spotting that the wording of the 1868 Reform Bill was wrong. The wording accidentally enfranchised women who met its other criteria, leading to thousands of women voting.