Programme
Please note this programme is subject to change
9.30am to 10.00am
Registration and refreshments
10.00am
Introduction to Rethinking Textiles: Yorkshire Edition
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, School of History, University of Leeds Project Leader for Enterprise of Culture and Rethinking Textiles
10.15am
Session one - The Industrial Revolution reconsidered
What can the history of technology add to the history of the Industrial Revolution?
Barbara Hahn, Rethinking Textiles, School of History, University of Leeds
Yorkshire worsteds and Lancashire cottons: markets, fashion and technical innovation in the early industrial revolution
John Styles, Research Professor in History, University of Hertfordshire / Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum
The context of textile revolution: one year in Leeds
Gill Cookson, School of History, University of Leeds
11.30am
Refreshments
11.50am
Session two - Leeds, Bradford and the wider world
Leeds, tweeds and the global fashion system: The case of Abraham Moon and Sons, Guiseley
Regina Lee Blaszczyk, Project Leader for Enterprise of Culture / Rethinking Textiles, School of History, University of Leeds
Bradford, India and Silk
Nima Poovaya-Smith, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, University of Leeds /Director of Alchemy
12.45pm
Lunch and time to see the Museum
1.45pm
Session three - What's in the archives?
We spent the whisky money!
Helen Farrar, Curator of Textiles, Bradford College Textile Archive
Yorkshire stories through fashion and artefacts
Elaine Evans & Claire Watson, Yorkshire Fashion Archive, University of Leeds
Tailored—The Leeds tailoring industry and its contribution to the history of British fashion
Natalie Raw, Curator of Costume and Textiles, Leeds Museums and Galleries
Jobs for the girls; the thin line between subsistence wages in textiles and prostitution
Liz McIvor, Bradford Industrial Museum
3.10pm
Refreshments
3.30pm
Session four - Cloth halls, mills and global brands
Marks & Spencer and the British textile industry
Steven Toms, Leeds University Business School
The First White Cloth Hall: Leeds' hidden treasure
Phil Ward (Sustainable Development Unit) and Neall Bower (Regeneration Team), Leeds City Council
Reading the history of woollen manufacture from its products: some ideas for approaching the Yorkshire industry
Pat Hudson, Emeritus Professor of Economic History, Cardiff University
4.30pm
Heritage Show + Tell: textiles edition
Hosted by Helen Graham (University of Leeds) and Helen Langwick (Royal Armouries) from Heritage Show + Tell, Leeds
4.50pm
Closing remarks
5.00 to 6.00pm
Wine reception