Category: Heritage

This section features the articles about the heritage sector itself and my responses to interpretation and engagement projects.

Interpretation, exhibitions & curation
My experiences and learnings from the sector
Making heritage more accessible and representative.

Posts

Infographic Poster. Reasons to Recreate - To work out how something fits together - To see what it feels like to wear it (embodiment) - to analyse historical instructions - to bring something to life such as film or TV setting - to spot the changes made between styles

We could be in the Vanguard: Making Historical Dress Conference

The very first Making Historical Dress Conference explored how different ideas about making and researching historical costume and craft intersect.

3 October 2023

Ideal Body Shape section of Stories Told in Stitches Exhibition. A glass case on the left shows a hat box, bowler hat and brush with interpretation notes. The middle and right feature manequins wearing a 1840s mouring dress, a 1900s s-bend corset, and a 1920s flapper dress.

Telling Stories About Clothing

My exhibition found stories about clothing – seeing how and what they showed about gender.

28 June 2023

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