Dr Serena Dyer
@serenadyer.bsky.social
🎓 Associate Professor of Fashion History
✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
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✍️ Author: Material Lives; Labour of the Stitch
🎬 Presenter @englishheritage
📚 Rep’d by @felicitybryanagency
She/her
Spent a fabulous day with part of the 18th-century mantua-making dream team. We’re working on an exciting new collaborative making project with Leicestershire Museums Service 🪡
January 17, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Spent a fabulous day with part of the 18th-century mantua-making dream team. We’re working on an exciting new collaborative making project with Leicestershire Museums Service 🪡
Very excited to share that I am now represented by Carrie Plitt at Felicity Bryan Literary Agency ✍️ Working with her and the team at Felicity Bryan has been an absolute delight so far, and I can’t wait to share more about what’s in the pipeline!
December 20, 2024 at 11:30 AM
Very excited to share that I am now represented by Carrie Plitt at Felicity Bryan Literary Agency ✍️ Working with her and the team at Felicity Bryan has been an absolute delight so far, and I can’t wait to share more about what’s in the pipeline!
My piece for BBC Sheffield on the origins of Topshop also went live today! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 10, 2024 at 9:00 PM
My piece for BBC Sheffield on the origins of Topshop also went live today! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
I had a lovely time on BBC Radio Bristol this afternoon chatting to John Darvall about the history of tights! Go to 2hrs 51mins to hear the segment. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
December 10, 2024 at 7:15 PM
I had a lovely time on BBC Radio Bristol this afternoon chatting to John Darvall about the history of tights! Go to 2hrs 51mins to hear the segment. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Wondering what to get the fashion history fans in your life for Christmas? @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social currently has 30% off a huge range of titles, including three of my own books. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-...
December 4, 2024 at 12:25 PM
Wondering what to get the fashion history fans in your life for Christmas? @bloomsburyfashion.bsky.social currently has 30% off a huge range of titles, including three of my own books. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/material-...
We discovered this during our house renovation work today. I wonder who Lee and Katie were. And I hope they don’t mind that I just ripped up their c. 1990 tiling.
November 10, 2024 at 11:15 PM
We discovered this during our house renovation work today. I wonder who Lee and Katie were. And I hope they don’t mind that I just ripped up their c. 1990 tiling.
Some home renovation updates! Just don’t look down…the floor is next weekend’s task.
November 10, 2024 at 8:16 PM
Some home renovation updates! Just don’t look down…the floor is next weekend’s task.
I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?
November 5, 2024 at 8:52 AM
I’m on the hunt for garments in museum collections that are stained with (known or conjectured) menstrual blood (from any time/place) 🩸 Do you know of any?
Out of office email is on and pre-festive period trip to the hairdresser complete. Let the mince pies and mulled wine begin! 🍷🎄
December 19, 2023 at 8:02 PM
Out of office email is on and pre-festive period trip to the hairdresser complete. Let the mince pies and mulled wine begin! 🍷🎄
Home from my final on-campus day of 2023 and delighted to have won the Most Impactful Research prize at the Faculty Research & Teaching awards this afternoon! What a lovely end to the year!
December 14, 2023 at 7:04 PM
Home from my final on-campus day of 2023 and delighted to have won the Most Impactful Research prize at the Faculty Research & Teaching awards this afternoon! What a lovely end to the year!
I present this year’s winner of Most Cursed Christmas Ornament. Why is there a mushroom growing from its head?! 🐷🍄
November 25, 2023 at 6:03 PM
I present this year’s winner of Most Cursed Christmas Ornament. Why is there a mushroom growing from its head?! 🐷🍄
We made a Halloween apple and rhubarb cake, using fruit from the garden 🎂🎃👻
October 31, 2023 at 7:51 PM
We made a Halloween apple and rhubarb cake, using fruit from the garden 🎂🎃👻
I had an absolutely fabulous time last night at the private view of @luciewhitmore.bsky.social and @bethanbide.bsky.social’s masterpiece of an exhibition, Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style @museumoflondon Docklands until April.
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October 12, 2023 at 8:40 PM
I had an absolutely fabulous time last night at the private view of @luciewhitmore.bsky.social and @bethanbide.bsky.social’s masterpiece of an exhibition, Fashion City: How Jewish Londoners Shaped Global Style @museumoflondon Docklands until April.
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Some more snapshots from filming this week. Can’t wait to share this episode with you all!
October 7, 2023 at 1:28 PM
Some more snapshots from filming this week. Can’t wait to share this episode with you all!
Living my best historian/presenter life today. Any guesses what/where we were shooting? 🎬🎥🏰
October 5, 2023 at 7:14 PM
Living my best historian/presenter life today. Any guesses what/where we were shooting? 🎬🎥🏰
Next on my to-do list: finish off this early 18th-century mantua (excuse the temporary belt). 🪡
October 2, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Next on my to-do list: finish off this early 18th-century mantua (excuse the temporary belt). 🪡
The final manuscript for Labour of the Stitch has been submitted! 🍾🍾🍾 It's rather lovely to return to your work after a few months and feel genuinely proud of it. I can't wait to share this volume with you all!
October 2, 2023 at 7:49 PM
The final manuscript for Labour of the Stitch has been submitted! 🍾🍾🍾 It's rather lovely to return to your work after a few months and feel genuinely proud of it. I can't wait to share this volume with you all!
Early 18th-century mantuas have the most fun pleated sleeves 🪡
October 1, 2023 at 2:58 PM
Early 18th-century mantuas have the most fun pleated sleeves 🪡
I’m tip tapping away on the final revisions to Labour of the Stitch, which are due on Monday. The volume explores my recreation of this 1760s gown, and will be published by Cambridge University Press. So excited to share this research with you all! I’m rather proud of it.
October 1, 2023 at 9:56 AM
I’m tip tapping away on the final revisions to Labour of the Stitch, which are due on Monday. The volume explores my recreation of this 1760s gown, and will be published by Cambridge University Press. So excited to share this research with you all! I’m rather proud of it.