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The Clothing, Culture and Identity in Early Modern England project will reconstruct the everyday life of clothes in late sixteenth and early seventeenth century England. This project will address key areas of the cultural consumption of clothing: clothing and religious identity, the moral consumption of clothing, the everyday life of clothes, clothing and social status, and dress and gender identity. The project is based in the Department of Modern History and at the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham.
At the centre of the project will be the construction of a database compiled from probate, court and other archival records of the clothing communities of counties in the English Midlands. This database, which will be freely accessible to the historical community, will also include comprehensive information on clothing drawn from contemporary printed and visual sources. The resource will provide material both qualitative and statistical, textual and pictorial, and will comprise an essential resource for analysis of the social and religious history of early modern England.
