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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 a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 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.

 I am on the judging panel of The Textile Society's Brenda M King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles.

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9818-3463

I also have a Diploma in Art and Design and City & Guilds Crochet

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) 

'Fragmentary Findings: A Victorian School Needlework Sample', in Joe Harley and Vicky Holmes (eds), Objects of Poverty: Material Culture in Britain From 1700 (Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2025)

'Fashion and Youth in Western Societies: Street Style and Race, c. 1830-1940', in Christopher Breward, Beverly Lemire and Giorgio Riello (eds), The Cambridge Global History of Fashion, vol. 2 (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)

 ‘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)

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. 

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)

'Silk Ribbons - a forgotten craft?' World of Interiors (2024)

'The Rag Trade: Vivienne Richmond unpicks the history of the rag rug', Selvedge 111 (2023)

'Things Fall Apart ... Aiko Tezuka’s Deconstructed Textiles',  Selvedge 102 (2021)

'Yellow', Selvedge 101 (2021)

‘Chicken Linen: Twentieth-century American feedsacks’, Selvedge (2016)

‘A Remedy for Rents: The Whitelands College Darning Samplers’, Selvedge (2016)

Contributor, 'The language of thread: why sewing matters and how we were taught',  Haptic and Hue Tales of Textiles podcast, Series 5, Episode 44 https://hapticandhue.com/tales-of-textiles-series-5/

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)