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    Feb 12, 2021 4 minutes

    Fashion & Family History: Interpreting how your ancestors dressed

    by Jayne Shrimpton

    From the opening paragraphs onwards, Jayne Shrimpton’s lifetime of experience, researching the fashion and photography of past times, and her passion for the subject, glows off the page as she explains the garments our ancestors chose to wear over a one hundred and fifty year sweep of history – 1800 to 1950. Taking us from the emerging society of the Industrial Revolution, up until new dawn of fashion just after the Second World War, Jayne explains the seismic changes that occured in our ancestors’ lives – politically, at home and very much in the workplace, and the impact of these aspects

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