Bookings are now open for the Royal School of Needlework's first ever conference, “Stitched Together: Needlework Research and Making”! Join us at Hampton Court Palace on Thursday 21 and Friday 22 August, either in person or virtually. Find the conference schedule and tickets here: bit.ly/3FUc4kB

Pre-conference trip to Museum David and Alice van Buuren in Brussels. Rugs by Maurice Dufrene, tapestries, carpets and curtains by Jaap Gidding, and sofa cushions by Sonia Delaunay. Art Deco textile heaven.

Upcoming conference in Paris this December on space and fashion crafts coorganised by myself and Emilumie Hammen Deadline for submissions is July 15th mappingfashionsavoirfaire4.wordpress.com

STATEMENT: 'Not In Our Name: Feminist Academics and Educators Speak Out Against Transphobia' Read the statement online here: tinyurl.com/mud7va29 Co-sign the statement, fill in this form: forms.gle/oDYgnobrMiSc...

Registration for Material Scotland: Stana Nenadic Memorial Conference is now open! Full details can be found here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/material-s...

📣 Funded PhD at York with the National Trust: ‘At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an Eighteenth-Century Artist’. Co-supervised by Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social & Rachel Conroy @curatorrachel.bsky.social #18thC wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects...

Do you research textile and dress history? Give @pasoldresearchfund.bsky.social a follow for news about funding grants, conferences, and new research.

I’m delighted to announce the launch of the new Neaverson Pasold Postdoctoral Fellowship, intended to fund postdoctoral research in textile and dress history for a period of 3-10 months. Deadline: 1 April 2025. More info: www.pasold.co.uk/neaverson-pa... Please help us spread the good news!

What five historical fashion trends would I bring back for Christmas? Find out (and maybe even have a more sustainable Christmas) here: theconversation.com/five-christm...

This wonderful piece by Asma Begum is a great reminder of the human stories behind the fashion industry this International Migrants Day. www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/bri...

Hard to choose, but my favourite part of Napoleon was probably watching the Directory being overthrown in the coup d'État du 18 brumaire under the watchful gaze of James Thornhill’s monumental depictions of George I and St Paul’s cathedral?

A (very) brief introduction to the what, when, where, and why of the deindustrialisation of London’s fashion industry as a coda to #FashionCity www.museumoflondon.org.uk/discover/whe...

On Tuesday 14 November I’ll be chairing a special panel talk at the Museum of London Docklands with an incredible group of speakers. We’ll be exploring how migrants from all over the world have made London a unique and vibrant fashion city. Please join us: www.museumoflondon.org.uk/museum-londo...

Fashion in the City at the Museum of London is fabulous, beautifully & intelligently curated by @bethanbide.bsky.social & @luciewhitmore.bsky.social. Wonderful clothes telling the stories of the people that made them, sold them & wore them. Such resilience from the depths of horror & tragedy.

The Pasold Fund promotes and supports research on textile history: PUBLICATION GRANTS The aim is to subsidise the publication of essential illustrative material in high quality research, particularly in research monographs. Grants will normally have a ceiling of £1,000

Today I took over as the new director of the Pasold Research Fund. We offer funding to support research into textile and dress history and you should definitely check out what we offer if that’s something you do: www.pasold.co.uk/index

Dennison's Bogie Book, 1920. A catalogue of Halloween party supplies & decorating ideas, from the legendary producer of stationery & notions. archive.org/details/denn...

Discussions about sustainable fashion often centre western consumers. If you’re interested in how we can work towards a sustainable future that’s fair for both consumers and producers, check out our new podcast ‘How to fix fashion’ listen.podmasters.uk/HTFFairFashi...

Immediately replacing all professional work headshots with this photo of me, rampaging through a museum with an enormous fashion map. Thanks @luciewhitmore.bsky.social for capturing my joy.

Had a nice time looking at some lovely things in the Chanel exhibition at the V&A yesterday, but fundamentally it felt like an advert for a multinational brand. Deeply depressing to me that fashion history is hollowed out in this way - fund museums to tell better stories.

High-street staple Moss Bros was founded by Jewish second hand clothes dealer Moses Moses in 1881. Since then it’s helped thousands of customers negotiate the social dress codes required by British society events, including Hellmut Feisenberger, Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, who wore this suit.

It lives! Out in two weeks…

Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style opens in just over three weeks at the Museum of London Docklands. If you want to know why headline writers framing it as being about ‘East End sweatshops’ is problematic, you should probably come see it: www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/...