New Advance Article! Listening to things and spaces: Sound archives for design historians by Emily Candela. Subscribe and read now at doi.org/10.1093/jdh/ep… #JournalOfDesignHistory #DesignHistory #Sound #Archives

Correspondence Course: Letters on Photography is a new essay series co-authored with Kim Beil. During lockdown, Kim and I (who had never met) became photographic pen pals. Our eight letters are now part of Photomonitor’s Experiments series. Part 1 here: photomonitor.co.uk/experiment/cor…

Congratulations to ⁦Claudia Treacher⁩ who passed her ⁦Arts and Humanities Research Council⁩ PhD today with her thesis ‘Radical Art during the Second World War in Britain: Conscientious Objection in the work of Don Treacher’. It’s a sophisticated and moving account of art and family history.

Last Thursday we hosted the Symposium ‘Visuality, Nationhood and Power Relations: Representation of Korea in World’s Fairs and Organisations’ which drew in a wide audience. We thank all our speakers who shared their research and participants who could join us! #designhistory

Looking forward to this Sunday's "At Home" with @c19thdressandtextilesreframed - we'll be exploring #photographs as a source for #dress & #textile #research - details and free tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/715162429077…

Tickets available for another brilliant At Home with c19th Dress and Textiles Reframed - 30 June 2024 -2.00pm BST Tickets, Sun 30 Jun 2024 at 14:00 | Eventbrite. All welcome! eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with…

Really pleased to tell you that I have written an autobiographical essay for the new edition, based on Department Store bags. It is out today! It follows themed issues on Sick Bags, Museums, Bookshops... See more @paper_bag_archive (on Instagram) or here: paperbagarchive.com/store

Watch the winner of University of Brighton's Three Minute Thesis competition! Kamal Badhey is researching the ApnaHeritageArchive photo archive assembled by Anand Chhabra She shares stories gathered in fieldwork: youtu.be/RucUvAmexKs?fe… Also tagging lead supervisor Dr Megha Rajguru The Centre for Design History

New on the Blog! Matheus de Simone is a visiting PhD student at the University of Brighton (April-Sept 2024), from UFBA,Brazil. He is undertaking a PhD on the comparative historical cultures of nudism & naturism in Global North and South. Read more on the blog. blogs.brighton.ac.uk/centrefordesig…

New on the blog! Dr Nushelle de Silva recently concluded her Visiting Research fellowship at the Centre, hosted by Claire Wintle Read her reflections on the blog: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/centrefordesig… Image: Exhibit from Runo Lagomarsino, Tales from the Underworld (2020). By de Silva.

Celebrating a PGR Success: PhD student Zara Arshad recently started her Artist Residency at Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan with her working partner Yaloo Reality Read more on the blog as Zara shares her process, methodology and experiences. blogs.brighton.ac.uk/centrefordesig…

If you are an international student and want to study MA History of Design and Material Culture History Art Design University of Brighton apply now for a scholarship. Further details here: brighton.ac.uk/studying-here/… #designhistory #postgraduatestudy #design

Delighted to have signed a contract with Bloomsbury Fashion for my new book “The Blouse: Fashion, Manufacturing and Social Change for Women, 1890-1920” (Blouse - Leicester Museum’s collection)

Reflections from Design Archives/The Centre for Design History Visiting Research Fellow Youjin Choi up on our blog now blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign… Image ID: cover of 'Exhibition Design', by Misha Black, FHK/25/3, FHK Henrion Archive

Interested in writing and publishing about dress and textiles? Join a free and informal workshop/conversation with @c19thdressandtextilesreframed this Sunday 28th July 2pm BST. Tickets and further information here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/at-home-with…

🎉 Celebrating Harriet Atkinson’s recent publication ‘Showing resistance: propaganda and Modernist exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53’ with Manchester University Press which is out this week! Read more on Atkinson’s recent achievements and upcoming projects on the CDH blog blogs.brighton.ac.uk/centrefordesig…

Could you be our next VRF? We are inviting applications for the Design Archives/The Centre for Design History International Visiting Research Fellow, deadline 19 Sept! More info and how to apply: blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign…

We're thrilled to hear that the brilliant new book about our art collection 'Art without Frontiers' has been longlisted for the Berger Prize The Walpole Society, the leading book prize for art history. Congratulations to author Prof. Prof. Annebella Pollen! #BritishCouncil90