About this Event
Please join us at the London Museum Docklands, for the 2024 Local History Conference on the theme of Fashion, Clothing and Textiles in London History. Doors open at 10.15am with an opportunity to browse local history displays and stalls by societies. The conference will also be available online (Zoom).
Timetable
10.15: Doors open: registration, and displays by societies
11.00: Welcome and opening remarks
11.10-11.40: Advertising Corsets: Dress Advertisements in the Late Nineteenth-Century Feminist Periodical the Women’s Penny Paper / Woman’s Herald, 27 Oct. 1888– 23 Apr. 1892 (Artemis Alexiou)
11.45-12.15: Fashion and the embodiment of regality: ‘like talking to St Paul’s Cathedral’ (Aidan Jones)
12.15-12.40: Comfort break
12.40-13.30: Keynote Lecture - Selling British Fashion: The Rise and Fall of The British Model House (Hannah Wroe)
13.30-14.30: Lunch break (opportunity to browse displays by societies)
14.30-14.40: LAMAS Publication Awards for 2023
14.40-15.10: The Uncovering Dressmakers Project (Sage Foley and Steph Haire)
15.15-15.45: A History of textiles in the London Borough of Newham (Laura Wilson)
15.45-16.15: Refreshment break (tea and coffee provided)
16.15-16.45: Selling Mid-Twentieth Century London Couture: ‘Mattli of Mayfair’ (Caroline Ness)
16.50-17.20: ‘The New Chintz Tradition’, modernity in floral textile design in London in the 1960s (Keren Prothero)
17.20-17.30: Closing Remarks
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Museum of London Docklands, Hertsmere Road, London, United Kingdom