Posts by date: July 2013

Menswear from 1800 to 1900

Costume collections are typically inundated with women’s clothes and accessories, while menswear remains to be relatively under represented. There could be many reasons for this; men tend to wear their clothes for longer eventually wearing them out and having to… Read more

Guest post: Marie-Thérèse Mayne, Laing Art Gallery

This blog post is by Marie-Thérèse Mayne, Assistant Keeper of Art at the Laing Art Gallery. Migration Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums has recently teamed up with researchers at Northumbria University to encourage new thinking and comment around important subjects,… Read more