Faculty Member, History
Research Professor in History
About
I am a historian who specializes in the history of eighteenth-century England. I have a particular interest in the history of everyday things used by the common people.
My most recent books are The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England (Yale University Press, 2007) and Threads of Feeling: The London Foundling Hospital's Textile Tokens, 1740-1770 (Foundling Museum, 2010).
I am currently undertaking two research projects. The first – Spinning in the Era of the Spinning Wheel – is a study of hand spinning in English textiles from the late Middle Ages to the start of the nineteenth century. The second – Threads of Feeling – is an exhibition of the mid-eighteenth century textiles preserved in the records of London’s Foundling Hospital. The exhibition was first displayed at the Foundling Museum in London in 2010-11. It will open for a year at the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, USA in 2013. Meanwhile, it continues as an online exhibition at: http://www.threadsoffeeling.com/
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