Ballet: Staging Britishness


This research explores how ‘Britishness’ was presented in Sadler’s Wells’ Sleeping Beauty (1946) through the notions of ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ and ‘nostalgia’.
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Performance, Modern, Europe, Media, Textiles, Methods of Documentation, Lived Experience, Conservation, Memory Studies

Xinghe Chen







Fashion and Film in 1960s London


This research synthesises multiple disciplines into a design history framework to elucidate the overlap of costume and fashion when designing for contemporary narratives.
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Material Culture, Modern, Europe, Americas, Media, Textiles, Oral Histories, Lived Experience, Gender Studies


Phoebe Evans







Building Conservation in Bath


This research explores the early origins, methods, and aims of building conservation in the city of Bath. 
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Material Culture, Modern, Europe, Media, Built Environment, Methods of Documentation, Conservation

Jordan Lee





Spine of the City: HK Tram


Exploring the entanglement of agendas and influences of the HK Tram system on Hong Kong city's urban-social development under the British Colonial rule.
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Material Culture, Modern, Asia, Media, Built Environment, Decolonisation, Untold / Marginal Narratives, Methods of Documentation

Annie Lye






Copyright, Photography & Art, 1862-1878


This research focuses on the commercial practice of reproducing artworks through photography and registering them under the Fine Art Copyright Act of 1862.
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Photography, Modern, Europe, Media, Technologies, Untold / Marginalised Narratives, Archival Documents

Bessie Morrissey-Murin


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