A quintessentially English glove legacy
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3181
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.37467/gka-humanrev.v1.2377
- Title of journal
- The International Human Sciences Review
- Article number
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- First page
- 59
- Volume
- 1
- Issue
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- ISSN
- 2659-7500
- Open access status
- Exception within 3 months of publication
- Month of publication
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- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.37467/gka-humanrev.v1.2377
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Turner’s industry background as a designer of clothing and accessories influenced an extended interest into the history of glove making in England, particularly the significant historical traditions in Worcester and Bath. This article, 'A quintessentially English glove legacy’ (2019), set out Turner’s initial purposes and findings at the start of a more considerable research endeavour, functioning as the groundwork and basis for what would become The Glove Network, an AHRC-funding research project that was granted £22,485 in January 2020, with a funded period of February 2020 to March 2022.
As indicated in the article, Turner had already begun to do primary research into the glove collections, both displayed and archival, at the Fashion Museum in Bath, and Dents Leather Glove Museum in Worcester. The Glove Network’s ambition is to take an interdisciplinary approach, bringing together interested parties from academia, museums and manufacturing, with expert knowledge of the production, collections, conservation and display of English leather gloves, in order to enable the sharing and exchanging of information by those who have ownership and access to the collections of gloves, associated material and knowledge of the history of glove making over at least 400 years.
Key areas being explored by this project include surveying the current content and status of the individual collections, to identify potential links by sharing information; histories, social and cultural and relationship to history of fashion; design, manufacturing and materials; approaches to maintenance and conservation; and access to the collections and strategies for future understanding of their national importance. Despite setbacks due to the Covid-19 pandemic, initial seminars took place in 2020, and an extension to the project has been requested of the AHRC to allow for future engagement with organisational partners. More can be found at https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/projects/the-glove-network/.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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