The Association of Dress Historians supports and promotes the study and professional practice of the history of dress, textiles, and accessories of all cultures and regions of the world, from before classical antiquity to the present day.
ADH Conferences & Events
The Association of Dress Historians (ADH) invites you to join our events!
Conferences are open to all, but discounted to ADH members.
Select additional events are exclusive to members, in recognition of their contribution to our charity.
To become an ADH member for 10.00 GBP per year visit our membership page.
The Association of Dress Historians (ADH) Winter Seminar Series 2022-2023
Join us on the first Friday of each month from November 2022 to March 2023 for a presentation and discussion. Attendance is free to ADH Members and you will receive a sign-up notice in our monthly Thoughts and Threads email.
If you are not a Member and are curious to hear an individual session, tickets are £10 including fees and available on ADH Eventbrite. Your contribution helps to support our online platforms and events.
Seminar Series line up:
Friday 4 November 2022, past
Luis Estévez: Fashion, Elegance, and Exoticisation.
With Joshua Simon, Western Michigan University
Friday 2 December 2022, past
Tiny Needleworked Treasures of 17th-Century Schoolgirls
With Isabella Rosner and Sew What? podcast
Friday 13 January 2023, past
Queering Masculinities: Dress, Gender, and the Body in the Antwerp Fashion Scene
With Nicola Brajato, University of Antwerp
Friday 3 February 2023, past
Rags and respectability: attitudes toward textile waste in the nineteenth century
With Philip Sykas, Manchester Metropolitan University
Friday 3 March 2023, 18:00-19:00 GMT
Sarah Goldsmith, University of Edinburgh, and Gill MacGregor, Textile Conservator
Details to be confirmed
New Research in Dress History Conference 2023
Join us at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) and via Zoom on Friday 21 April 2023 for a day of new research papers.
The call for papers for this conference is now closed and the programme is under development.
You can book to attend the conference on Eventbrite. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-association-of-dress-historians-annual-new-research-conference-2023-tickets-466313786087
ADH International Conference 2023:
We are excited to announce “Add-Dressing Margins”: Historically Underrepresented Fashion and Style, an international hybrid and in-person conference and workshop in partnership with Drexel University. Centring work on historically marginalized communities, fashion, style, and dress in historic and modern contexts, the conference and workshop will be held at Philadelphia, PA, USA, Drexel University, 26-28 October 2023.
The call for papers is now open, until 1 August 2023.
April 2024:
New Research in Dress History Conference
The CFP will open at the end of the New Research Conference 2023.
7-8 October 2024:
The ADH annual International Conference, titled ‘Dress and Art: Clothing and Textiles in Painting and Portraiture’, at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
The CFP for this conference will open in 2023.
Do you have an idea for an ADH event?
The ADH is always interested in hearing ideas for new events, curators’ or archivists’ tours, and networking get-togethers. The ADH is also interested in discussing potential new venues for our conferences.
Please contact events@dresshistorians.org to discuss your ideas for new events and ADH conference venues. Thank you!
Select an ADH conference to read the programme.
30 September – 1 October 2022
Fashioning the Body for Sport and Leisure
27 May 2022
New Research in Dress History Conference
21-22 October 2021
Curation and Conservation:
Dress and Textiles in Museums
Turin Long Conference Programme
7-13 June 2021
The New Research in Dress History Conference
Winter 2020/2021
ADH Lecture & Conversation Series
25–26 October 2019
The Victorian Age:
A History of Dress, Textiles, and Accessories, 1819–1901
24 May 2019
The New Research in Dress History Conference
26 October 2018
Dress and War:
Clothing and Textiles at Home and Abroad during the First World War Era, 1910–1920
13-14 April 2018
The New Research in Dress History Conference
27-28 October 2017
Interwoven:
Dress that Crosses Borders and Challenges Boundaries
25 February 2017
The New Research in Dress History Conference
5 November 2016
Out of the Dark and into the Light?
Dress in the Early Modern Period and the Age of Enlightenment, 1400–1800
20 February 2016
The New Research in Dress History Conference
31 October 2015
Survival and Revival:
Clothing Design that Survives and Fashion Trends that Are Revived
21 February 2015
The New Research in Dress History Conference
12 July 2014
The Legality of Dress:
Historical and Modern Approaches to the Control of Clothing and Textile Production
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