The Fund organises occasional FORMAL AND GUEST LECTURES to stimulate interest in specific areas of textile history research.

The first lecture in this series was in 1999 at the Courtauld Institute of Art, delivered by Professor Aileen Ribeiro (Reader in the History of Art, Head of History of Dress Section, Courtauld Institute of Art) and was entitled ‘ The Fabric of Fashion’.

Other lectures in the series :

2000

Jointly hosted by Leeds Civic Trust and Pasold Research Fund

Well suited. A history of the Leeds clothing industry 1850-1990

Dr Katrina Honeyman , University of Leeds

2001

'Globalisation in textiles : Corporate Strategy and competitive advantage'

Sir Geoffrey Owen , London School of Economics

2002

Jointly hosted with the Knitting Together Project and Pasold Research Fund

Whatever Happened to Hosiery and Knitwear ?’
Professor Stanley Chapman, University of Nottingham

 

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