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Jordan Mitchell-King

History, De Montfort University

Thesis title:

Undress: Informal Women's Clothing in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Research Area

  • Cultural History
  • History

Publications

Book review 'Patternmaking: History and Theory', Journal of Dress History, 5:1, 2021.

'The Clothing of the Contadina: Women's Work, Leisure, and Morality in Sixteenth-Century Northern Italy' with Elizabeth Currie in Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650 ed. Paula Hohti, Manchester University Press, forthcoming.


Conferences

'Reconstructing a Contadina's Apron' Refashioning the Renaissance: Everyday Dress and the Reconstruction of Early Modern Material Culture, 1550-1650, September 2021, Aalto University, Finland.

Public Engagement & Impact

Special interest publications:

'The History of Nineteenth-Century Drafting Systems' Foundations Revealed, August 2021

'Using Nineteenth-Century Drafting Systems' Foundations Revealed, August 2021

'Making, Selling and Defining Eighteenth-Century Jumps and Quilted Waistcoats' Foundations Revealed, upcoming

'Wearing Eighteenth Century Waistcoats, What it Meant and How it Changed' Foundations Revealed, upcoming

Digital outputs:

MA cohort Graduation website, publication and symposium. This shared the research of students across our cohort in various mediums, from traditional academic papers to accessible and fun workshop activites. Click here.

Publishing videos on YouTube to share aspects of my research and interests with interested online communities. Click here.