March 2017

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Himalayan Fashion Study Day, Monday 10 September 2018, Leeds

Shape Jacket, Tibet (C) Leeds Museum10am to 4pm Lotherton, Leeds LS25 3EBExplore the fabulous range of textiles in the Himalayan Fashion exhibition with talks from specialists and handling opportunities. Guest speakers include Gina Corrigan and Karin Altmann. Antonia Lovelace, the exhibition curator, and Karen Horton, the conservator who restored the elaborate pagor turquoise woman’s headdress from Tibet on display, will also be presenting....
Call for information - Southern whaler’s as collectors and donors.

Rachael Utting has contacted MEG to see if any of our members can help her. She writes: As part of my PhD research at Royal Holloway, University of London I’m looking for both museum and personal collections in Britain and the Pacific that have links with British whalers. I’m focussing on the collecting activities of captains, surgeons or crew associated with...