Erin Griffey

Erin Griffey is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Auckland and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She is a specialist in early modern visual and material culture with an interest in adornment and display. Her current research relates to...

Sarah Pickman

    I am an early career historian with an interest in material culture, extreme environments, bodily and psychological comfort, and colonialism in the long nineteenth-century Anglophone world. I earned my BA in Anthropology with a minor in Art History at...

Alicia Schult

  With over 30 years of experience, Alicia Schult is an expert in the history of receipts, apothecaries, cosmetics, alchemy, and historical clothing. As the owner and founder of LBCC Historical Apothecary, she has dedicated her life to bringing to light lost and...

Cathy Lomax

  I am a practising artist with a critical interest in stardom, and feminine aesthetics (particularly makeup). I won the Contemporary British Painting Prize in 2016 and exhibit my work widely. In September 2023 I was awarded a PhD in film studies from Queen Mary...

Jill Burke

    I’m Professor of Renaissance Visual and Material Culture at the University of Edinburgh and am a historian, writer and (occasional) curator. I’ve published books and articles about art patronage, the nude and various other topics relating to fifteenth...

Fabiola Creed

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick. My main research interest is the history of tanning technologies (i.e., sunbeds, fake tan, tanning pills and Melanotan injections), beauty and health industries, mass...