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• Project Publicity during 2008 and 2009

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Publicity during 2009

July 2009

• Rutten, Stuart Nels, "On The Lexis of Cloth and Clothing Project." Proceedings of The Thirteenth Euralex Internacional Congress: 25 years studying dictionaries." (Euralex: Barcelona), is an upcoming online article. 

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Publicity during 2007

March 2007 :

• On Monday 26 - Saturday 31 March, Professor Gale Owen-Crocker was in Bayeux researching and attending a conference where she read a paper 'Les animaux ornamentaux de la Tapisserie de Bayeux: leurs origins et leurs function' at a conference 'La Tapisserie de Bayeux: une chronique des temps Vikings?'
  
• You might like to take a look at this press cutting entitled : "Bayeux : Deux ladies amoureuses de la Tapisserie (Two Ladies in love with the Tapestry)"
  
  
• An Article appeared in the Centre for Continuing Education newsletter.
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December 2006 :

• An article appeared in the December issue University of Manchester staff magazine ‘UniLife’.
  
  
  • ‘Ready to wear’ : A five year project at The University of Manchester aims to provide the most detailed record ever of what British people used to wear during medieval times.
    [Read this article in full]
    
    

November 2006 :

• The project was reported on the University of Manchester news page :
  
  
  • Investigation into what medieval Brits liked to wear launched : A five-year project at The University of Manchester is to provide the most detailed record ever of what British people used to wear during medieval times.
    [Read this news item in full]
    
    
• The project gains extra publicity with a piece in the November 2006 issue of History Today :
  
  
  
  • History Today - Medieval fashion database to be created’
    
    The University of Manchester today revealed details of a new five year project to research and catalogue the Medieval wardrobe. Backed by a grant of £765,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, the study will compile a database of items worn in Britain between 500 and 1300 years ago.
    
    Professor Owen-Crocker, a costume historian and Anglo Saxon specialist commented on the importance of the project; “Nowadays, some of us take mass production and transport for granted and fail to understand what earlier life was like. In those days every thread every person wore had passed between some woman’s finger and thumb.”
    
    [Read the full article in the November 2006 issue of History Today.]