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Staffordshire history
books by
Dianne Mannering

Sylvia M Everitt's Staffordshire
Millennium
Embroideries
A history of
Staffordshire

A Crown
for Staffordshire
A history of medieval Staffordshire barons

visit the Staffordshire Millennium Embroideries website
see all 11 panels and read the history of Staffordshire that inspired their creation

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Rachel Miles
- Public Speaker -

My talks are illustrated with slides --many of which I have made specifically for my subject and also with original pieces of costume form my collection .I like to make my talks and lectures very interactive and have developed some individual ways of getting my audience involved and communicating key issues.

Well Heeled

The shoe has long held a particularly significant place in the history of clothing and in early times was symbolic of fertility, security, respectability and personal freedom. Why does the image of a well dressed wedding party returning shoeless to their cars after a long day still un-nerve us, even when those involved are well-dressed? Why are women in particular so lured by the shoe? This talk will use a range of sources including the shoe in fairy tales and in common language to illuminate the power of footwear.

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Gone with the wind
the history of the crinoline

Well Suited
is the story of the development of the male and female suit , and of what it tells us about the time that produced it and of our present society.

Bag Ladies
will show the quite extraordinary history of the handbag , which is far more than a container !

Well Heeled
higlights the status and symbolism of th shoe. Come and meet som early platforms, and maybe find out why women seem particularly susceptible !!

Material Worlds
will look plastics in design --from furniture to habdbags , from its quite suprising and accidental discovery in the Victirian period to hight in the 1960's.