{"id":281,"date":"2011-01-09T15:08:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-09T15:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:17:21","slug":"childhood-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/clarerosehistory.com\/blog\/childhood-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Research: Childhood History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr Clare Rose is one of the leading experts in the history of childhood in Britain, with special expertise in children’s fashion and gender differentiation in the past. Her Children’s Clothes Since 1750<\/em> made groundbreaking use of unpublished retail catalogues and surviving garments to investigate the clothes actually worn by children in the past. <\/span><\/p>\n

Clare Rose’s\u00a0PhD, <\/span>Boyswear and the formation of gender and class identity in urban England, 1840-1900<\/em> (University of Brighton, 2006)\u00a0examined thousands of unpublished documents and images to establish the ways that fashion shaped boys’ appearance in Victorian Britain. Her research investigated the photo archives of Dr Barnardo’s Homes, and unpublished collections of\u00a0manufacturers’ designs and retailers’ catalogues, to show that boys’\u00a0fashion\u00a0was big business even before 1900. She\u00a0demonstrated that boys’ sailor suits were not seen as miniature uniforms, but as fashion garments with highly un-nautical trimmings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clare Rose is, with Aude LeGuennec, the founder of the research network IN2FROCC (Interdisciplinary and International Network for Research on Children and Clothing), under the umbrella of the ACORSO international research group, https:\/\/acorso.org\/in2frocc-enfance-et-vetements. \u00a0 She was a consultant to the exhibition S\u2019habiller pour l\u2019\u00e9cole<\/em> at the Mus\u00e9e national de l\u2019\u00e9ducation, Rouen, France. She has spoken about the history of children’s clothes at universities in Europe and the USA – and on television as an expert for the Great British Sewing Bee Series 2 (2014) and Series 7 (2021).
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Childhood History Publications<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n