A Cultural History of School Uniform

KATE STEPHENSON

The first ever academic study on the history of school uniform. Covers 500 years of British school uniforms.

Accessible writing for a wide audience.

What’s a djibbah, how long has the old school tie been around and do yellow petticoats really repel vermin? This book will provide answers to these questions and more, in an engaging foray into 500 years of British school uniform history from the charity schools of the sixteenth century through the Victorian public schools to the present day.

Praise For A Cultural History Of School Uniform

The history of school uniforms in Britain is inextricable from its history of gender, class and identity, as this book ably demonstrates. The wide-reaching study fills a significant gap in scholarship by exploring the ways educational institutions dressed young people, and how developments in uniforms embodied and envisaged ideas about their personhood.

Hilary Davidson, The University of Sydney

A fascinating social history of the school uniform which sheds light on many facets of British history from the seventeenth century to the present.

Jon Lawrence, Professor of Modern British History, University of Exeter

What a refreshing and fascinating narrative, charting its way through the under-researched territory of school uniforms from the earliest examples in 16thc charity schools to the modern day phenomena. Uniform is often the earliest memory of codified dress that we carry and it is a timely and absorbing exploration of this neglected topic.

Dr Kate Strasdin, Senior Lecturer, Cultural Studies, Fashion and Textiles Institute, Falmouth University

Biographical Note

PUBLICATION

12 September 2023

University of Exeter

234 x 156 mm

232pp

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1948

A Critical and Creative Prequel to Orwell's 1984

BRIAN MAY

• A new departure in writing about Orwell and his work: part critical essay, part creative novella.

• Tackles some of the contradictions and implications in Orwell's final work, 1984.

• A jumping off point for discussion of broader topics, such as dystopian fiction and fan fiction.

This book is about Orwell’s post-war cultural moment c. 1948. Taking his Diaries of the time as inspiration, together with his famous final novel, 1984 (published 1949), and treating them as contiguous texts, Brian May explores the gaps, equivocations, and contradictions in Orwell's message and asks what Orwell would have written next.

But 1948 is more than a work of literary criticism: rather, it balances critical discussion with creative intervention, being one-half literary-critical commentary, and one-half fictional departure – a novella titled “From the Archives of Oceania,” which quotes, parodies and pastiches Orwell's Diaries, offering a possible prequel.

1948 will appeal to all readers and critics of Orwell, but also to students of dystopian fiction, "revisionary" fiction and "reception study," which highlights the audience’s contribution to an artwork's meaning.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor of English at Northern Illinois University just west of Chicago, Brian May is the author of two previous books, Extravagant Postcolonialism: Modernism and Modernity in Anglophone Fiction, 1958-1988 (2014) and The Modernist as Pragmatist: E.M. Forster and the Fate of Liberalism (1996)

PUBLICATION DATE

31 October 2023

PUBLISHER

University of Exeter Press

FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE

Hbk | 9781784274245 | £70.00 | $98.00 eBook available

SIZE

216 x 140 mm

PAGES

214pp

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A free to download eBook will be available on publication.