Research and Publications

I love undertaking research and sharing it with others. Here are some of the research projects I've worked on.

Display and Exhibition Research

Fashion Museum Bath

• Beyond the Slogan T-Shirt - The use of fashion as a form of protest against social expectations, from the nineteenth century to the present day.

• Queering the Collection - The emergence of queer fashion expression represented within the Fashion Museum Bath collection, from queer sartorial passing to sportswear as a space for women to explore queer identity

• Crafting an Image - The wardrobe of Ottoline Morrell and her use of clothing to express herself

• The Emergence of Ready to Wear - The significance of 1960s London boutiques in relation to the growth of ready to wear and the supposed democratisation of fashion

• Consuming Fashion Photography - Investigating the Lachasse and Ernestine Carter Archives as tools in the promotion and consumption of fashion

• The Printed Image - Fashion communication through the medium of fashion plates and the significance of specific publications

• Fashioning Bath - Bath as a fashion hub from the 18th Century to the present day

National Trust

• Inspired by Stourhead: From Home to Living Work of Art - Investigating Stourhead as a source of inspiration, from its creation in 1724 to its use as a film set in various productions

• Making a House a Home: 300 Years of Women's History at Stourhead - Exploring the impact that women who lived at Stourhead have had on its creation and adaptation from 1724 to 2024

• Early Pioneers and Monumental Mysteries - Uncovering the impact of Sir Richard Colt Hoare, former owner of Stourhead, on the development of modern archaeology

Conferences and Talks

• 2025: Reimagining Rococo: The revival of Georgian styles in the Lolita fashion subculture as performative protest, presented at Costume Society Annual Conference: In the Shadow of the Georgians - From the Jacobite Rising to Waterloo, Online

• 2025: Learning from Others: Capturing Oral Histories to Diversify Museum Narratives, presented at DATS 50th Anniversary Annual Conference: Shaping Culture through Dress and Textiles, Brighton, UK

• 2025: Fashion Through the Ages: 400 years(ish) of Fashion History, presented to local history groups across Somerset and Wiltshire

• 2024: Making a House a Home: The Women of Stourhead (and Their Fashion), presented at Stourhead as part of their 2024 programming

Publications

• 2023: Exhibition Review: The Offbeat Sari (curated by Priya Khanchandani, The Design Museum, London, United Kingdom, 19th May 2023 – 17th September 2023), The Journal of Dress History, Vol. 7:4, pp 66-68

Education

MA: Art History and Museum Curating, University of Sussex

• Thesis: Subversive Modesty meets Elitist Femininity: Exploring the Subversive Qualities of the Lolita Fashion Aesthetic

• Exhibition proposal: Interwoven World: How Fashion Connects Us - Exploring fashion as an interconnected universal phenomenon, Interwoven World showcases the rarely exhibited hidden treasures of the V&A’s fashion collections. Spanning the intricate textiles of 18th-century India to the West African batiks of modern Manchester, the exhibition directly challenges assumptions about cultural essentialism and appropriation, revealing how different cultures have intersected to create hybrid garments rooted in multiple contexts and traditions.

• Acquisition proposal: High Neck Maternity Dress c. 1805 for the Museum of London Dress and Textiles Collection, including object justification, display context and website text for the proposed object.

• Term paper: Queerly Out of the Closet: How an Object-based Approach Can Help Construct a Queer Fashion History

• Term paper: Frills and Frolics in the Museum: How Sweet Lolita Objects Problematise Geographic Categorisation

BA (Hons): English Literature and Film Studies, University of Sussex

• Dissertation: That Bloody Rag: Representations of Menstruation in 20th-Century Women's Literature

• Dissertation: Multiculturalism in Contemporary British Cinema

• Term paper: Translating Sapphic Desire from Text to Screen in the Works of Virginia Woolf

• Term paper: Investigating the Monstrous Feminine Beyond Horror in British and Iranian Cinema