Dr Claire Allen-Johnstone @Claire_A_J
Assistant Curator, Furniture, Textiles & Fashion, @V_and_A, specialisms include couture, dress reform, Arts & Crafts, New Woman, she/her, views own uk.linkedin.com/in/dr-claire-a… Cambridge Joined April 2018-
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Buttons, hats, vases, chairs, and ceiling roses were just some of the many, many things made from papier mâché in the Victorian era. I wrote about it for the Paper issue of @MaterialIntel: materialintelligencemag.org/paper/ 📷 @metmuseum
Patchwork cushion cover including applied symbols from playing cards, made by Hettie Young in 1878 - The Stories Behind the Stitches @MuseumofCamb
The Museum of Cambridge is excited to announce our new exhibition, “The Stories Behind the Stitches", exploring wellness, disability and self-expression through Cambridge textiles is now open until Autumn 2024. Find out more here: museumofcambridge.org.uk/event/exhibiti…
Some of the Arts & Crafts furniture on show at the @V_and_A 🌿
My chapter 'Scarves: History of a Fashion Object' is out now in Dior Scarves. Fashion Stories edited by @lafrisa! @Dior @thamesandhudson
Performance Festival @V_and_A starts 19 April! So many events on offer, most of them free. vam.ac.uk/festival/2024/…
What an amazing object showcasing so many techniques - the ‘Garden of Hearts’ chest by Madeline Yale Wynne, recently acquired by @HistDeerfield - discussed today by Daniel S. Sousa at the Furniture History Society Arts and Crafts Symposium
What an amazing object showcasing so many techniques - the ‘Garden of Hearts’ chest by Madeline Yale Wynne, recently acquired by @HistDeerfield - discussed today by Daniel S. Sousa at the Furniture History Society Arts and Crafts Symposium
This showstopping 19th-century patchwork dressing gown was made using offcuts from waistcoat making. On display in the @V_and_A Britain Galleries room 125. Online record: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O364976/d…
First look at the official poster for NAOMI: In Fashion, the major upcoming exhibition at V&A South Kensington. Tickets on sale now vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/na… – V&A members go free. Step inside the personal wardrobe of @NaomiCampbell and experience garments and accessories that…
Our recent women’s suffrage acquisition - more details here collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1766698/… #IWD2024
Our recent women’s suffrage acquisition - more details here collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1766698/… #IWD2024
The @V_and_A Make Good Symposium on waste, re-use, and circularity in production is happening 13 March. Free onsite and online tickets can be booked here: vam.ac.uk/event/XvE1xLNg… + vam.ac.uk/event/VM40Qg93…
JOB CLAXON! We're currently recruiting a Project Archivist, Archive Assistants, a Lead Cataloguer and Cataloguers for The David Bowie Archive. Deadline: 10 March. More info on the @V_and_A Vacancies pages: vam.ac.uk/vacancies
Excited to share the cover for my labour of love - the updated story of the Mack @glasgowschoolart. More to say in the lead up to April/May launch, but thanks for literal years of support to @YaleBooks @GSAArchives @GSAlibrary @UofGlasgow @hunterian @PaulMellonCentr @RoyalSocEd
The @FitzMuseum_UK exhibition Black Atlantic: Power, People, Resistance is open for a few more weeks, until 7 January: fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/plan-your-visi…
Lino as you’ve probably never known it. Images of the latest @V_and_A Make Good display on the work of Christien Meindertsma. vam.ac.uk/event/qBlrjXje… #Sustainability
📣 Announcing our major new exhibition: NAOMI 📣 Delve into the extraordinary career of British fashion icon Naomi Campbell - supermodel, activist, philanthropist, and creative collaborator. NAOMI will explore Campbell’s trailblazing journey in the fashion industry over the…
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115K Followers 3K Following Honoring the best of the Internet since 1997 ✨ Webby WINNERS announced! Check them out at: https://t.co/EVK4oBUb2FMy friend went to the Barbican and sent me a photo of my lil book and it’s being sold next to The Subversive Stitch aka one of the most influential texts in the field of historical embroidery and HOO BOY IM FREAKIN OUT (in a nice way)
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We enjoyed recording a conversation about the research of our #NGT2023 - here are some of the 10 academics who will be working with @BBCRadio3 and @ahrcpress - you can hear about their work here bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
First we had the mystery of the Roman dodecahedron from Lincolnshire on #DiggingForBritain, now another mysterious bronze/brass object has the twitterati bubbling with hypotheses! If the wisdom of the masses holds true - it’s either a piece of a bedstead, a toilet flush pull or a…
Found on a beach on the Firth of Clyde - a mysterious copper alloy object - but what could it be? It seems have iron rust embedded in the ends… a fancy door handle? Any ideas gratefully accepted, especially from @findsorguk!
We’ve had this in the works for some time so I’m thrilled to kick off season 4 of the @engfac Ten-Minute Book Club with Dr Lauren Cullen on the “first-dog” Canadian novel, Beautiful Joe @TORCHOxford english.ox.ac.uk/ten-minute-boo…
It was my absolute privilege to personally collect our #MaudJoachim Hunger Strike Medal from @bonhams1793 on behalf of @womenslibrary this morning. To the 544 people who donated, raising £28,500, this is for us all - thank you to everyone who supported our campaign.
I choose 6 objects not to miss in #FashionCity (it was agony I love them all). Read about my selection here! 👇
For the full stories behind these items, check out our blog, written by exhibition curator @LucieWhitmore: bit.ly/46DA4QB #FashionCity
Pleased to say that after 7 years (almost to the day) I passed my viva. Thanks to my 2 fantastic PhD supervisors @Amanda_Vickery & Susan North and to my wonderful examiners Amy Erickson & Maria Hayward. One of whom ended the afternoon wearing a replica mantua but not saying who!
Keen to learn more about the #GothicRevival and #ArtsandCrafts in Cambridge? Look no further, DPH guide, Yvonne Pinchen has written the essential guide to Gothic Revival architecture and Arts and Crafts interiors across the city. Now available at DPH: davidparrhouse.org/product/gothic…
A pinch-me moment to be included in this list of @engfac publications alongside my supervisor @DanielWakelin1 , my mentor Jane Griffiths, my co-convenor Nick Perkins, among other brilliant medievalists @R_A_Burns @profcarolyne Francis Leneghan &c english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/englis…
Here's a trailer for my new book Jane Austen's Wardrobe, out on 12 September worldwide with @YaleBooks.
So happy to see my litel bok & to meet a reader at the @boydellbrewer stand @IMC_Leeds book fair today!
This delicate study of a spring and a stem of elderberry was made by May Morris c. 1905🌿 Morris was an influential embroiderer & designer of the Arts & Crafts movement in mid-19th-c. Britain. She often took inspiration from nature, producing many botanical sketches & patterns.
Eric Ravilious was born on this day in 1903. I'm delighted to receive an advance copy of my new book on his work, which is due out on the 28th Sept thanks to @thamesandhudson and @V_and_A...
@Claire_A_J @burrellcollect @artfund Very much enjoying these daily pics!
Always amazing to hear the insights of researchers in our Reading Room! Thanks for coming!
Scotland trip day 4 pics: Early 20th-century Glasgow Style embroidery piece connected to a design in Educational Needlecraft by Margaret Swanson and Ann Macbeth - items seen today at @GSAArchives - thanks for having me! @GSofA
I contributed a teeny tiny bit to this, so I may be biased, but it is a treat and a beauty!
***THREE RIBBONS ALERT *** and is it a coincidence that the editors also all have THREE names? Lesley Ellis Miller, Ana Cabrera Lafuente and Claire Allen-Johnstone have done an incredible job and Silk looks positively edible - available to buy now uk.bookshop.org/books/silk-fib…
Cannot thank @CUH_NHS and the staff of the @rosiehospital enough for their help this week. So grateful to be home with my two favourite people
Look what has just arrived in the post today! Coming soon #Bagsinsideout @V_and_A
I had a chat with the lovely people at BBC Radio Oxford about Ten-Minute Book Club with @engfac and @TORCHOxford . bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0… (no time stamp available so go to 1:46 if you'd like to hear it! Right after 'Dancing Queen'...!)