The research network 'Tailored
Trades: Clothes, Labour and Professional Communities, 1880-1939' was funded
by the Arts and
Humanities Research Council and investigated how clothes and labour
influenced and assisted in the development of professional communities at the
turn of the twentieth century (1880-1939). The Principal Investigator was Dr Vike Plock
from Exeter University, while the Co-Investigator was a member of the Histories
of Activism group at Northumbria University, Dr Nicole
Robertson.
The Tailored
Trades website contains an archive of network events, which ran during 2013-14.
Activities included academic workshops at Northumbria University (involving
other members of the Histories of Activism group) and Exeter University, public
lectures and school study days at the Bishopsgate
Institute (London), an exhibition at the People's History Museum
(Manchester), and a concluding network conference 'Clothes, Working Lives
and Social Change (1880-1939)'. You can listen to podcasts (including a
recording of a paper by Histories of Activism group member Dr Charlotte Alston) and view digitised material and descriptions from network
events on the project’s website.
