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A Thousand Negatives and Many Positives: Researchers Reflect on a PhD Student Support Scheme

Annebella Pollen, Professor of Visual and Material Culture, and Jayne Knight, collaborative PhD candidate (University of Brighton / National Science and Media Museum), discuss their shared experiences in the HSS PGR Research Scheme. Annebella Pollen: In 2021, I published a… Continue Reading →

Talk Series | Where Design Fails? Exploring Design Archives – November/December 2022

Where Design Fails? Exploring Design Archives* 9, 23 November & 14 December Online via MS Teams This three-part talk series has been organised as part of the ongoing University of Brighton Design Archives research theme “Global Archival Cultures of Design,”… Continue Reading →

Exhibition | Design Matters: 17 August – 14 October 2022

Exhibition organiser and CDH PGR representative, Nicola Miles, shares an insight on the  exhibition, Design Matters. Following on from the CDH workshop in May this year, Curating Exhibitions in Practice, post-graduate students from a wide range of disciplines were offered… Continue Reading →

Sharing Sources | Claudia Treacher

  Links: The Reunion, BBC Radio 4 Scored in Silence by Chisato Minamimura Collisions by Lynette Wallworth Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay Insurgent Empire Anticolonial Resistance and British Dissent by Priyamvada Gopal

Report | Archival Sources and Methodologies: Session 2 – Photographs

Dr Uschi Klein reflects on the second session of a workshop series on ‘Archival Sources and Methodologies’ organised with the University of Brighton Design Archives.   We all think about photography in one way or another; after all, photography is… Continue Reading →

Event | Oral Histories / Museum Histories – 29 June 2022 – Inkeri Hakamies

Join us for the second event of online lectures hosted by the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton. Organised by Dr Claire Wintle (University of Brighton), Dr Linda Sandino (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Andrea Potts (University of Brighton). Studying… Continue Reading →

Call for papers | The Global Diffusion of Tailored Clothes for Women 1750 – 1930 Friday 16th and Saturday 17th September 2022

Organised by the European-wide ACORSO Research Interest Group ‘Tailoring for Women 1750 – 1930’, this two-day conference entitled The Global Diffusion of Tailored Clothes for Women 1750 – 1930 seeks papers exploring the diffusion of design, manufacture, technology, products, material culture, retailing,… Continue Reading →

Event | Oral Histories / Museum Histories – Priyanka Seshadri, Independent Archivist

Join us for the final event of online lectures hosted by the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton. Organised by Dr Claire Wintle (University of Brighton), Dr Linda Sandino (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Andrea Potts (University of Brighton)…. Continue Reading →

Report | Oral Histories / Museum Histories – 14 June 2022 Pamela M. Henson, Smithsonian Institution

Join us for the first in series of online lectures hosted by the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton. Organised by Dr Claire Wintle (University of Brighton), Dr Linda Sandino (Victoria and Albert Museum), and Andrea Potts (University of… Continue Reading →

News | Caroline Hamilton completes a successful viva

The Centre for Design History is pleased to announce that Caroline Hamilton successfully defended her doctoral thesis on 30 May 2022. Caroline’s PhD was entitled “A Successful Failure? Les Ballets 1933: An Object-Based Approach to an Avant-Garde Ballet Company”. Caroline,… Continue Reading →

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