Date/Time
Date(s) - 10 Feb 2014
4:00 PM - 5:15 PM
Location
Fayerweather 411
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Asian Textiles and European Fashion 1400-1800
A lecture by Professor John Styles
411 Fayerweather
4:00 pm
Monday, February 10
John Styles is Research Professor in History at the University of Hertfordshire in England. As former Head of Graduate Studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum, he wrote the historical themes for the V&A’s acclaimed British Galleries 1500-1900 and co-authored Design and the Decorative Arts: Britain 1500 to 1900. He specializes in the history of early modern Britain, especially the study of material life, manufacturing and design. His most recent book is The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion I Eighteenth-Century England (2007). He currently holds a European Research Council Advanced Grant for a research project entitled ‘Spinning in the Era of the Spinning Wheel, 1400 to 1800’.