Blog - 2016

Reviews

Review: Creating African Fashion Histories Conference.

8 December 2016

This one-day conference took place at Brighton Museum in collaboration with departments from the University of...

Reviews

Review: Colour, Vision and Materiality

24 August 2016

In her article “Sticky Layers and Shimmering Weaves: A Study of Two Human Uses of Spider Silk”, featured in the...

Reports

Cabin Fever

5 August 2016

Cabin Fever is an exhibition that documents the historical evolution of the cabin in North America — and, as a...

DHS Events

Event Report: Tasting the Table

25 July 2016

How much can we understand about the tastes, techniques and aesthetics of historic tables without experiencing them...

Reports

Conference: Artisans and the Craft Economy in Scotland, 1780 – 1914, University of Edinburgh, 9 June 2016

20 July 2016

​Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, the ‘Artisans and the Craft Economy in Scotland, c.1780 – 1914’ project investigates...

Reviews

Where is the History of Design Going?

14 July 2016

The one-day symposium Where is the History of Design Going? was organised by Stéphane Laurent of the University...

Features

Meet the new DHS Ambassadors

28 June 2016

As the Design History Society continues to grow in membership and influence, the Board has appointed two Ambassadors...

Reports

The swadesi typewriter: mediating modernity, identity, and technology in post-independence India

10 June 2016

My research aims to investigate the role played by typewriters for Indian languages in absorbing and shaping the...