A Starter Bibliography across Disciplines

Ahmer, C. (2020) “Riegl’s ‘Modern Cult of Monuments’ as a Theory Underpinning Practical Conservation and Restoration Work.” Journal of Architectural Conservation 26, no. 2: 150-65.

Barrington, M. (2016) Stays and Corsets: Historical Patterns Translated for the Modern Body. New York: Routledge.

Baudrillard, J. (1983) Simulations. New York: Semiotext[e].

Beerkens, L. (2007) “Nothing but the Real Thing: Considerations on Copies, Remakes and Replicas in Modern Art.” Tate Papers, no.8. Available at https://www.tate.org.uk/research/publications/tate-papers/08/nothing-but-the-real-thing-considerations-on-copies-remakes-and-replicas-in-modern-art. [Accessed 14 October 2021].

Benjamin, W. (1969 [1935]) “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction.” Translated from the German by Harry Zohn, in Hannah Arendt ed., Illuminations, 1-26. New York: Schocken Books.

Boon, T et al. (2017) “A Symposium on Histories of Use and Tacit Skills.” Science Museum Group Journal 8. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15180/170808

Brooks, M.M, and D.D. Eastop (eds.) (2016) Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress. Los Angeles: The Getty Conservation Institute.

Campt, T. (2017) Listening to Images. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Chapman, L. (2020) “Cabinets of Costume: Renegotiating Participation Through Practice, Object-Based Study and ‘Ghosts’ of an Assemblage of Dress.” Costume 54, no. 2: 222-41.

Davidson, H. (2019) “The Embodied Turn: Making and Remaking Dress as an Academic Practice.” Fashion Theory 23 no. 3: 329-62.

Foucault, M. (1994 [1974]). The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences. London and New York: Routledge.

Foulds, F. (ed.) (2013) Experimental Archaeology and Theory: Recent Approaches to Testing Archaeological Hypotheses. Oxford and Oakville: Oxbow Books. 

Osterman, M. (2011) “Mid-Nineteenth-Century Photographic Studio Technique: Why Recreate Nineteenth-Century Photographic Technology?” In K. Staubermann ed. Reconstructions: Recreating Science and Technology of the Past, 252-71. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland.

Outram, A. (2008) “Introduction to Experimental Archaeology.” World Archaeology 40, no.1: 1–6.

Petersson, B. and L.E. Narmo (eds) Experimental Archaeology: Between Enlightenment and Experience. Acta Archaeologica Lundensia Series Altera in 8, No. 62. Sweden: Lund University Press. 

Riegl, A. (1982 [1903]) “The Modern Cult of Monuments: Its Character and Its Origins.” English translation from the German in Oppositions 25 (1982): 21–51. 

Smith, Pamela H., Amy R. W. Meyers, and Harold J. Cook (2017) Ways of Making and Knowing, the Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge. Chicago: Chicago University Press.

Soulioti, A. M. and M. Chatzidaki (2021) “Double Trouble: Replicas in Contemporary Art and Their Impact in Conservation Decision-making.” Studies in Conservation DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2021.1974238

Woodward, S. and T. Fisher (2014) “Fashioning Through Materials: Material Culture, Materiality and Processes of Materialization.” Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty 5 no. 1: 3-23.

Publications of the School of Historical Dress

The School of Historical Dress is an active publisher and as of May 2020 is now the sole publisher of its celebrated Patterns of Fashion series. Publications are available for purchase directly from the School’s online shop.

The Tudor Tailor

The Tudor Tailor team aims to provide research, resources and inspiration for people who enjoy learning about 16th century dress – for fun, for educational projects, for reenactment events, for heritage sites, for stage plays and for screen productions. 

The collaborative team is headed by Ninya Mikhaila and Jane Malcolm-Davies, who specialise in the social history of dress with practical guidance on reconstructing historic clothing for interpretive projects. They combine meticulous research with an irreverent attitude offering scholarly information with a sense of humour.