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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Emily Danvers who has served the Fund as Administrator for the past 12 months is leaving Cardiff for a post in London. Until a new Adminstrator is appointed it is important that, after July 1st 2009 and until further notice, all enquiries concerning the Fund and all grant applications be sent directly to Pat Hudson
THE LASTEST VOLUME IN THE PASOLD BOOK SERIES PUBLISHED JOINTLY WITH OXFORD UNiVERSITY PRESS HAS JUST APPEARED:
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PRASANNAN PARTHASARATHI and GIORGIO RIELLO eds. THE SPINNING WORLD: A GLOBAL HISTORY OF COTTON TEXTILES, 1200-1850 (Pasold Fund and Oxford University Press 2009)
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This multiauthored volume contains the latest research of specialists from four continents. It is available from bookshops and direct from Oxford University Press.
CONFERENCE NEWS
A next Pasold Conference will take place in September 2010 on the subject of 'Textile Distribution Networks, 1700-1900'. It will be held in conjunction with the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) at the University of Wolverhampton. A call for papers is in process. The lead organiser is Dr Laura Ugolini of CHORD: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
There will be a further Pasold Conference on April 6-8th 2011 at the University of Exeter on the theme of 'Fabricating the Body: Textiles and Human Health in Historical Perspective'. The conference will be supported jointly by the Pasold Research Fund and the Wellcome Foundation. A call for papers will commence shortly. The lead organiser is Professor Jo Melling, University of Exeter: j.l.melling@exeter.ac.uk
The 2008 Pasold Conference was held on
17-18 January 2008 at the Foundling Museum, London on the
subject of:
Clothing childhood, fashioning society: children's clothing
in Britain in the 20th century. It was organised in
collaboration with the Department of Anthropology, University
College London. For full details see Conferences
page.
The prize for the best article to appear in Textile History Volume 39, 2008 was awarded to Dr Sarah Cheang of the Department of Historical and Cultural Studies, London College of Fashion for her article 'Dragons in the Drawing Room: Chinese Embroideries in British Homes, 1860-1949' which dervied from a paper presented at the Pasold Conference on 'Textiles and the Domestic Interior' held at the V&A in 2006.
Grants recently awarded include support for themed workshops on selling textiles in the eighteenth century, tapestry research, on the Silk Road from China, on lace making, Indian textiles, and the history of knitting. Research has also been supported on topics including child labour in the 19th century British textile industries, the Harris Tweed trade mark, Okinawan textile museums, the needlework of Mary Queen of Scots, Greek school uniforms, burial shrouds, early-modern Norwich, Bronze Age textiles, Meroitic cloths, Malaysian Songet textiles, dress in the Pepys collection, cotton spinning in Lancashire, the Dundee Jute industry, Silk in the Atlantic World, Indian handloom clusters, Maori cloaks, Quilt research, Shoes in Valencia, Japanese shashiko textiles, Dress at the Court of Louis XVI. For a more detailed list of research and researchers supported during recent months see the Grants page
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Grants |
The Fund offers a number of grants to support high quality research
and associated travel and research dissemination costs,
directing awards to the following categories of applicant:
established academics, early career academics, independent scholars, museum staff
(see especially Raine Grants), MA students and PhD students.
New Deadlines (Please note that some of these deadlines were
revised in January 2008)
Small grants under £500 - applications
can be submitted at any time
Grants under £1000 -deadlines 1 October
and 15 February
Grants between £1000 and £3,000
-deadline 30 April
MA grants of up to £500 -deadline
15 April
PhD Bursaries -deadline 30 June
Themed workshops -deadlines 15 January and
15 July
Grants in aid of publication (directed at
the publication of high quality illustrative material in
research output, particularly monographs, and normally under £1000)
- applications can be submitted at any time.
Follow link to Grants for
further details.
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