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Through the discovery of one Victorian woman's textile scrapbook, a fashion historian and museum curator unravels the secrets within its pages and the lives of the people within, charting, piece by piece, the whole of human experience in the most intimate of mediums: the clothes people wear.

A fascinating diary of Victorian dresses, as worn by Mrs Anne Sykes, the daughter of a Lancashire mill-owner whose life took her to Malta and Singapore, recently unearthed by a textile historian. The entries include actual textile samples as well as intriguing entries that the author will unpack to create a picture of British Empire industrial life.A gift on her marriage to Adam Sykes in 1838, Anne started her diary with a swatch from her wedd...

A revealing and unique portrait of Victorian life as told through the discovery of one woman's textile scrapbook.In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments - some her own, others donated by family and friends - she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs Anne Sykes. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the han...

A unique portrait of Victorian life, hidden figures and Empire, told through one woman's textile scrapbook_____________In 1838, a young woman was given a diary on her wedding day. Collecting snippets of fabric from a range of garments - some her own, others donated by family and friends - she carefully annotated each one, creating a unique record of their lives. Her name was Mrs Anne Sykes.Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into th...

HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming

Queen Alexandra used clothes to fashion images of herself as a wife, a mother and a royal: a woman who both led Britain alongside her husband Edward VII and lived her life through fashion. Inside the Royal Wardrobe overturns the popular portrait of a vapid and neglected queen, examining the surviving garments of Alexandra, Princess of Wales - who later became Queen Consort - to unlock a rich tapestry of royal dress and society in the second ha...