Carol Dyhouse will draw upon photographs and the memories of four generations of women in her own family, as well as a love of vintage clothes, perfume, makeup and jewellery to explore women’s changing attitudes to their appearance since the Second World War. From the ladylike restraint and elegance of the 1950s through the ‘dollybird’, ‘flowerpower’ and unisex looks of the 1960s and 1970s, fashion moved on to punk, and then to the shoulder-padded, power-suited assertiveness of the 1980s. Were women passive consumers of these trends or did we fashion our own identity? Dyhouse is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Sussex and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

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CAROL DYHOUSE; APPEARANCES: Memory, History, Clothes 

16th November 1.30pm until 2.30pm - (60 mins)