History, De Montfort University
Thesis title:
"Designer Biography: Nike, inc." Fashion Photography Archive. London: Bloomsbury, 2015. Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive. Web. 26 Jan. 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781474260428.012
"Key Collection: Bella Freud, Spring/Summer 1999." Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive. Web. 26 Jan. 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350993808.011
Book Review: Carnival to Catwalk: Global Reflections on Fancy Dress Costume by Benjamin Linley Wild. The Journal of Dress History, Volume 4, Issue 4, Winter 2020 · Nov 1, 2020
"Key Collection: English Eccentrics, Helen David, Spring/Summer, 1999." Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive. Web. 3 Aug. 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350996335.0029
Book Review: The Anthropology of Dress and Fashion: A Reader By Brent Luvaas and Joanne B. Eicher. The Journal of Dress History, Volume 3, Issue 3 · Dec 20, 2019.
"It is not impossible to look nice sitting about on a beach:" The Influence of Magazines in the Making and Wearing of Hand-Knitted Bathing Suits By Young Working Women in England during the 1930s. Journal of Dress History Volume 2, Issue 3. · Jan 1, 2018.
'An American Swimwear Brand in Worthing: Jantzen swimwear style catalogues 1932-1938.' Object Essay for Objects Unwrapped, a collaborative project between University of Brighton and Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. 2019
The 1930s Hand-Knitted Bathing Suit. Object Essay for Objects Unwrapped, a collaborative project between University of Brighton and Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. 2018.
"Are We Really Going to Swim, Or Merely Decorate the Sands?": The Making, Wearing, and Leisure of Homemade Beachwear in Interwar England. Presented at New Research in Dress History conference, convened by Association of Dress Historians, 1st June 2021.
"Since Silk is Taxed, I've Used My Scraps": Homemade fancy dress and the silk tax in Britain, 1925.' Presented at im/material: Brighton Postgraduate Design History Society 14th Annual Symposium. 14th June 2019.
Convened an Association of Dress Historian's themed international conference, titled Fashioning the Body for Sport and Leisure: A History of Dress and Textiles held on 30 September-1 October 2022 at the historic Art Workers Guild, 6 Queen Square, London, England.
Short talk on a 1930s hand-knitted bathing suit from the Worthing Museum & Art Gallery collection. Presented at Objects Unwrapped: Hidden Histories, 30th June 2018 at Worthing Museum.
Developed and ran student-led taster lessons based on degree subject. Titled 'Dress Detectives,' aimed at year 9 student and introduce them to object analysis and material culture to undertake a practical activity investigating dress artefacts in groups. As part of Student Recruitment and Outreach Ambassador role, September 2017 to October 2019.
British Society for Sport History
Yarwood Award 2019 issued by The Costume Society, June 2019. An award of £500 to an MA student engaged in high quality research in dress history to support travel expenditure to archives.
Undergraduate Student Essay Prize issued by Design History Society, September 2018. International prize awarded to a high quality and outstanding undergraduate dissertation.
Student Fellowship issued by Association of Dress Historians, February 2018.
MA History of Design and Material Culture, University of Brighton (2018-2019)
Distinction
Dissertation title: 'Are We Really Going to Swim, Or Merely Decorate the Sands?': The wearing of beach pyjamas at England's south coast during the interwar period.
BA (Hons) Fashion and Dress History, University of Brighton (2015-2018)
First Class Honours
Dissertation title: Making, Wearing and Leisure: Hand-knitted Bathing Suits and Young Wage-Earners in the 1930s.
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