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Providing links and support for professionals in the UK and Ireland working with collections of fashion, dress and textiles.

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DATS@DATSnetwork
29 Sep 2025
For this year’s conference Larissa Jennings will present their paper ‘Thickening the Archive: A critical analysis of fat representation within UK museum fashion collections and recommendations towards a fat liberatory collecting practice’. bit.ly/4kbsxyU
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DATS@DATSnetwork
24 Sep 2025
For this year’s conference Shaun Cole, @unisouthampton , will present their paper ‘Locating Men’s Underwear’. For more information about this year’s conference and presenters see link below. bit.ly/4kbsxyU
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DATS@DATSnetwork
24 Sep 2025
For this year’s conference Prof. Andrew Groves and Dr Danielle Sprecher, @UniWestminster will present their paper ‘Not Just Bona Rags: Rethinking Menswear and Collecting through Vince Man’s Shop’. For more info see below bit.ly/4kbsxyU
Image: Dress: Liberty & Co, National Museum of Scotland, ref H.TM 201

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DATS@DATSnetwork
24 Sep 2025
For this year’s conference Dr Lauren Downing Peters & Dr Colbey Emmerson Reid, @ColumbiaChi will present their paper ‘Against the Finished Product: On Archiving Process’. For more information about this year’s conference see link below. bit.ly/4kbsxyU
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DATS@DATSnetwork
24 Sep 2025
For this year’s conference Jennifer Parker, @Fashion_Museum will present their paper ‘Some of the last Iraqi Jews: Capturing oral histories to diversify museum narratives’ For more information about this year’s conference and presenters see link below bit.ly/4kbsxyU
Image: Dress: Liberty & Co, National Museum of Scotland, ref H.TM 201

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DATS@DATSnetwork
23 Sep 2025
For this year’s conference Viviane Wei-An Chen will present their paper ‘Does It Fit? Eastern Dress, Western Norms — Rethinking Cultural Framing in Conservation’. For more details about this year’s conference and presenters see the link below. bit.ly/4kbsxyU
Image: 1870’s dress, National Museum of Scotland, ref H. TM30

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DATS@DATSnetwork
23 Sep 2025
For this year’s Dats conference, Dr Jane Hattrick will present their paper ‘A Lack of Hard Evidence’ : Queering the Lives and Work of the Modernist Textile Designers Hilary Bourne (1909-2004) and Barbara Allen (1903-1972)’. For more details, see below bit.ly/4kbsxyU
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DATS@DATSnetwork
23 Sep 2025
For this year’s Dats conference, Amy de la Haye from London Collage of Fashion, will present their paper ‘Making Mischief in Museums: working with communities’. For more details about this year’s conference and presenters see the link below bit.ly/4kbsxyU
Image: Dress: Liberty & Co, National Museum of Scotland, ref H.TM 201

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DATS@DATSnetwork
23 Sep 2025
For this year’s DATS conference, Lakshmi Madhavan will present their paper ‘Woven Resistance: Archiving Labour, Memory, and Identity in The Balaramapuram Kasavu Project’ For more details about the conference and presenters see the link below. https:// bit.ly/4kbsxyU
Image: 1870’s dress, National Museum of Scotland, ref H. TM30

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DATS@DATSnetwork
21 Sep 2025
For this year’s DATS conference, Dr Janet Aspley will present their paper ‘The Fanciest-Dressed Town in Britain: Costume Traditions in Lewes Bonfire’. For more details about the conference and how to get tickets see link below. bit.ly/46YW6Rk
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DATS@DATSnetwork
19 Sep 2025
For this year’s DATS conference, Shilei Zeng from @V_and_A , will present their paper ‘Reading the Fragment: Chinese Silk Scraps and Their British Afterlives’. For more details about the conference and how to get tickets see link below. https:// bit.ly/46YW6Rk
Image: Dress: Liberty & Co, National Museum of Scotland, ref H.TM 201

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DATS@DATSnetwork
17 Sep 2025
For this year’s DATS conference, Emmy Sale PhD student at De Monfort University / Hockey Museum will present their paper ‘Dressed for the Field: uncovering the history of women’s hockey clothing using The Hockey Museum collection’ More details below bit.ly/46YW6Rk
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DATS@DATSnetwork
10 Sep 2025
For this year’s DATS conference, Shelley Tobin from @nationaltrust will present their paper ‘Stories from the Stores-online research in practice’ For more details about this year’s programme and how to get tickets see link below. bit.ly/46YW6Rk
Image: 1870's dress, National Museum of Scotland, ref H.TM 30

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DATS@DATSnetwork
22 Aug 2025
We have now added the online ticket to the booking page for DATS 50th Anniversary Conference. For more details on how to book the tickets and the full programme see link below bit.ly/46YW6Rk
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DATS@DATSnetwork
15 Aug 2025
DATS 50th Anniversary Conference is now open for booking! You can find the link to tickets with the programme down below. Please note: we are still working with the University of Brighton about livestream access to the event, and more info will follow. bit.ly/46YW6Rk
Image: Dress, Libery & Co, National Museum of Scotland, ref H.TM 201

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DATS@DATSnetwork
2 Jul 2025
Deadline approaching for the call for presenters for DATS 2025 conference ‘Shaping Culture Dress and Textiles’. Deadline for submissions is 17:00 on Monday 7th July. For more details see link below bit.ly/4kbsxyU
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DATS@DATSnetwork
21 Jun 2025
Call for Presenters! We are looking for presenters for our 2025 conference ‘Shaping Culture through Dress and Textiles’. Deadline for submission is 7th of July. For more details and how to apply see link below. bit.ly/4kbsxyU
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DATS@DATSnetwork
20 May 2025
Exciting talk Dress in the Age of Jane Austen. @ChertseyMuseum is holding a lively and fascinating talk from a renowned Regency scholar and lecturer Hilary Davidson that takes place 28th June. For more details on tickets and how to attend see link below. bit.ly/4j1bDSL
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DATS@DATSnetwork
15 May 2025
Grant available for museum staff. @pasoldfund Raine Grant is to assist individual staff working in UK museums and other public collections/institutions, including curators and conservators, for object-based research into textile history. For more information see link below
Pasold Research Fund@pasoldfund
12 May 2025
Calling museum staff! Upcoming deadline: 30 June. Raine grants of up to £500 are available to assist curators, conservators and researchers working in UK museums and public collections, for object-based research into #textiles & #fashion history: pasold.co.uk/raine-grants
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DATS@DATSnetwork
8 May 2025
New exhibition ‘Fashioning Frequencies’ at @LCFLondon . The exhibition explores fashion as a conduit for identity, agency, and history and is on now until June 21st. Fore more details on how to attend see link below.
Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF)@sustfash
8 May 2025
New @LCFLondon Exhibition - Fashioning Frequencies, exploring fashion as a transmission of identity, agency, and history.⚡ 🗓️ Free & on now until 21 June 📌 Open Tues-Sat, 10am – 5pm Learn more: arts.ac.uk/whats-on/exhibiti… #LondonCollegeOfFashion #LCF #UAL @UAL
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