Asian Textiles and European Fashion 1400-1800
February 10, 2014
Room 411, Fayerweather Hall
4:00pm
A lecture by Professor John Styles
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 in 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’.