Society News
The DHS is seeking nominations for the Teaching and Learning Officer position. More
To celebrate the opening of the V&A's new Dr. Susan Weber Gallery of Furniture, the V&A are holding a one-day symposium on the 17th of May to investigate furniture materials, making and design. More
Postmodern theory might have finally killed off the utopian ideal of history as an objective science, but it has arguably left a vacuum, with no comprehensive debate on the role of subjectivity and its potential challenges and benefits...
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Associations
20th Century Society
The Twentieth Century Society exists to safeguard the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards.
AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior
A research centre to develop new histories of the home, its contents, and its representation.
The Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
The Center for Material Culture Studies at the University of Delaware helps to integrate and enhance the University's rich resources for the creation, study, and conservation of material culture
College Art Association
CAA includes among its members those who by vocation or avocation are concerned about and/or committed to the practice of art, teaching, and research of and about the visual arts and humanities
The Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD)
Set up in September 1998 to give new impetus to the study of the history of retailing and distribution
The Costume Society
Promotes the object-based study of contemporary and historic clothing and textiles. The Society publishes the journal Costume
The Crafts Council
The Crafts Council is the UK's national organisation for the promotion of contemporary crafts.
Design Research Society
The Design Research Society is the multi-disciplinary international learned society for the design research community. DRS was founded in 1967, and since then has established a record of significant achievements in contributing to design knowledge.
Design History Workshop Japan (DHWJ)
The DHWJ was founded in 2002 as a nation wide network of researchers, historians, designers, curators, archivists and postgraduate students in order to promote a newly distinct discipline, design history. The Workshop organizes twice-yearly research workshops and other events as well as publishes the Design History journal. Design History is published in spring once a year by the DHWJ.
The Economic History Society
The EHS aims to promote the study of economic and social history.
Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte (GfDg)
German Design History Society
Society for the History of Technology
An interdisciplinary organization, SHOT is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes, but also with the relations of technology to science, politics, social change, the arts and humanities, and economics.
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
The principal activities of the Society are the organising of conferences and the publication of works or collections of papers on Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
The Textile Society
Provides an international forum for the exchange and dissemination of information about textiles worldwide, from artistic, cultural, economic, historic, political, social, and technical perspectives.
Visual and Material Culture Centre, Kingston University London
An interdisciplinary research centre in visual and material culture, and the histories of art, design, and architecture.
Visual Resources Association
The Visual Resources Association is a non-profit organization established to further research and educatio n in the field of visual resources and to promote a spirit of cooperation among the members of the profession.
The Wallpaper History Society
Promotes an awareness and understanding of historic and contemporary wallcoverings.
The William Morris Society
Aims to make the life and work of Morris and his associates better known