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Asian Textiles and European Fashion, 1400-1800
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Enlightened Princesses between Germany and Britain
Styles, John (Yale University Press, 2017-03-28) -
Fashion and Innovation in Early Modern Europe
Styles, John (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2017-02-23) -
Fashion, Textiles and the Origins of Industrial Revolution
Styles, John (2016-03-31)This article outlines an argument about the origins of the Industrial Revolution in textiles. It arises from the research project Spinning in the Era of the Spinning Wheel, 1400-1800, a study of spinning in England from ... -
Indian Cottons and European Fashion, 1400-1800
Styles, John (Routledge, 2011) -
Objects of Emotion : The London Foundling Hospital Tokens, 1741-1760
Styles, John (Bloomsbury Academic, 2015) -
Patchwork on the Page
Styles, John (V&A Publications, 2010) -
Spinners and the Law : Regulating yarn standards in the English worsted industries, 1550-1800
Styles, John (2013-11)The Worsted Acts, passed between 1777 and 1791, established semi-official industrial police forces in nearly a third of the counties of England, charged with detecting and prosecuting fraudulent reeling of worsted yarn by ... -
Threads of Feeling : The London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens, 1740-1770
Styles, John (The Foundling Museum, 2010-10)When mothers left babies at London's Foundling Hospital in the mid-eighteenth century, the Hospital often retained a small token as a means of identification, usually a piece of fabric. These swatches of fabric now form ... -
'Threads of Feeling': Exhibition
School of Humanities; Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute; History; Styles, John (2010)An exhibition held at the Foundling Museum, London, 14th October 2010 - 6th March 2011 -
Time Piece: working men and watches
Styles, John (2008)John Styles considers whether the fashion for wearing pocket-watches flourished among working men in the eighteenth century because it was stylish, because they needed to know the time accurately, or for some other reason. ... -
What was Cotton? Fibers, Markets and Technology in the British Industrial Revolution
Styles, John (2017-10-27)The paper is divided into four sections. The first reviews recent interpretations of the British Industrial Revolution in textiles. The second evaluates the evidence for economic inducements to innovation. The third examines ... -
What were Cottons for in the Industrial Revolution?
Styles, John (Oxford University Press (OUP), 2009)