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Fun and Games with the Lady Anne Clifford

By Jessica Malay.   [caption id="attachment_4852" align="alignleft" width="251"] Photograph used with permission from Lakeland Trust.[/caption]   Anne Clifford, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset and Montgomery has...Read More

4 saints in 3 acts, A snapshot of the American avant-garde in the 1930s

[wr_row][wr_column]Dr Patricia Allmer – a Senior Lecturer, Chancellor’s Fellow and Deputy Director of Research at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) – has co-curated an exhibition,...Read More

Vote 100: 2018 - Jill Liddington

Why is 2018 such a significant year? 2018 is the centenary of winning Votes for Women. On 6 February 1918, the suffrage campaign was victorious...Read More

When a dance is more than a dance: The meanings of popular dancing in twentieth-century Britain - By Allison Abra

In the new season of the Netflix show The Crown, a dramatic scene captures the moment when Queen Elizabeth II danced a foxtrot with Prime...Read More

Deborah Sugg Ryan appears on hit BBC Two series, A House Through Time

Deborah Sugg Ryan (Professor of Design History, University of Portsmouth) is author of Ideal homes 1918-39: Domestic design and suburban modernism. She is series consultant...Read More

John of Salisbury and the medieval Roman renaissance - Q&A with Irene O'Daly

What book in this field has inspired you the most? To be honest, John’s own writings were the catalyst for the project. It’s almost unique...Read More

MMSO New Titles for 2018

Manchester Medieval Sources Online is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike, offering easy and extensive access to digital history sources. This collection seeks...Read More

Heritage branding: apparel, accessories, furnishings

by Regina Lee Blaszczyk At the dawn of the twenty-first century, Abraham Moon and Sons had weathered a near endless series of challenges over the 150...Read More

Meet your tweed designer in Paris or Shanghai

By Regina Lee Blaszczyk How does a firm find its customers? How does it communicate with them? In the glory days of the British wool...Read More

Vivien Leigh, Actress and icon - Q&A with Kate Dorney and Maggie B. Gale

What book in this field has inspired you the most? It was the lack of books and scholarship considering Leigh’s contribution to theatre and film...Read More

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