cv + publications
about
I have a PhD in History from the University of London (2004)
From 2000-2020 I was, consecutively, Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Head of Dept in the Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London
I am co-editor, with Marina Moskowitz, of Textile History, the journal of the Pasold Research Fund
and co-editor-in-chief, with Janis Jefferies, of the forthcoming Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of World Textiles
Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9818-3463
books
Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England (Cambridge University Press, 2013 hbk, 2016 ppbk)
Clothing, Sociecty and Culture in Nineteenth-Century England
General Editor: Clare Rose
Volume Editors: Clare Rose (vols 1 and 2), Vivienne Richmond (vol. 3)
3 Volume Set (Pickering & Chatto, 2010)
book chapters
Forthcoming: 'Fashion and Youth', in Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello (eds), Cambridge Global History of Fashion (Cambridge University Press, 2023)
‘Status’, in Denise Baxter (ed.), A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion, vol. 5: The Age of Empire (Bloomsbury, 2016)
‘Stitching women: hidden histories of Victorian clothes’, in Hannah Greig, Jane Hamlett and Leonie Hannan (eds), Gender and Material Culture in Britain Since 1600 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)
‘Crafting inclusion for "invalid" women: The Girls’ Friendly Society Central Needlework Depôt 1899-1947’, in Alena Buis, Janice Helland and Beverly Lemire (eds), Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th - 20th Century (Ashgate, 2014)
‘The English Church jumble sale: parochial charity in the modern age’, in Ilja Van Damme and Jon Stobart (eds), Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade: European Consumption Cultures and Practices 1700-1900 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010)
‘Stitching the self: Eliza Kenniff’s drawers and the materialization of identity in late-nineteenth-century London’, in M Goggin and B Fowkes Tobin (eds), Women and Things: Gendered Material Practices, 1750-1950 (Ashgate, 2009)
articles in academic journals
‘Rubbish or riches? Church jumble sale purchases in late-Victorian England’, Journal of Historical Research in Marketing 2:3 (2010)
‘”Indiscriminate liberality subverts the morals and depraves the habits of the poor”: A contribution to the debate on the Poor Law, parish clothing relief and clothing societies in early nineteenth-century England’, Textile History, 40:1 (2009)
‘“It is not a Society for human beings but for virgins”: The Girls’ Friendly Society membership eligibility dispute 1875-1936’, The Journal of Historical Sociology, 20:3 (2007)
reviews
I have reviewed books, conferences and exhibitions for Cultural and Social History, Family and Community History, History Today, History Workshop Journal, Journal of Social History, Mute, Selvedge,Textile History, The Journal of Dress History.
I have peer-reviewed books, articles and funding applications for Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Cultural and Social History, Palgrave Macmillan, Pasold Research Fund, Paul Mellon Foundation, Textile History, The American Historical Review, University of Toronto Press and Yale University Press.
exhibitions
A Remedy for Rents: Darning Samplers and Other Needlework from the Whitelands College Collection, Constance Howard Gallery, Goldsmiths, University of London and Roehampton University (2016)
Bear Ye One Another’s Burdens: The Girls' Friendly Society 1875-2005 (online exhibition, no longer available), The Women’s Library, London Metropolitan University (2007)
articles in commercial journals
other media
Consultant and contributor, The Victorian Slum, Wall to Wall Productions for BBC 2 (2016)
Dress of the Poor presentation at Historic Clothing Day, Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, September 2015
Contributor, The Real Mill (Darlow Smithson Productions/Channel 4, 2014)
Contributor, History of Disability (BBC Radio 4, 2013)
Contributor, When Royals Wed (BBC TV 2011)
Contributor, Victorian influences on modern Christmas (for Sky News, 2006)
Expert witness, The Industrial Revolution (DVD), TV Choice Productions (2004)