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Dr Charles Aubrey Hamilton Franklyn (1896-1982) was a well-known figure in the study of academic dress, genealogy and heraldry. Perhaps best known for his 1923 heraldic work The Bearing of Coat-Armour by Ladies, and his 1970 monograph Academical Dress from the Middle Ages to the Present Day, he was in many ways a complicated and often opinionated man. This biography traces his life and work, together with his contributions to academic dress an...

The History of Lambeth Degrees: Sources and Studies brings together some of the principal evidence relating to the character and academic dress of Lambeth degrees, which are awarded by the Archbishops of Canterbury under a statute of 1536. The sources include Francis Gastrell's eigh teenth century attempt to demonstrate that Lambeth degrees were not the equivalent of university degrees, as well as a series of correspondences to journals in the...

Academical dress has been worn by students and graduates for hundreds of years and even in these modern times shows no obvious sign of becoming obsolete. In addition to the distinctive robes granted by universities to their graduates, many other organisations, particularly musical colleges and societies, theological colleges and learned societies, specify hoods and gowns for their members, fellows and diplomates. This volume is a comprehensive...

Academical dress has been worn by students and graduates for hundreds of years and even in this modern time shows no obvious sign of becoming obsolete. Each new university, on receiving its charter, adopts its own distinctive robes. This is an updated and expanded third edition of Dr George Shaw's comprehensive guide to the academical dress of British and Irish universities, produced in accordance with the original author's wishes, and publish...

From his Repository of the Arts at 101 The Strand, London, the Anglo-German engineer, printer and entrepreneur Rudolph Ackermann (1764-1834) published numerous lavishly illustrated books on literature, art, fashion and architecture. His shop, one of the first in London to be lit by gas, provided up-to-date information about the latest fashions, and became a popular haunt for sophisticated members of the upper classes. In 1814 and 1815 he p...