Centre for Design History

Activities

Activities per year 2000 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025

• 189 Invited talk
• 95 Conference
• 94 Publication Peer-review
• 77 Oral presentation
• 218 More
  • 32 Workshop
  • 25 Editorial work
  • 24 Event
  • 24 Membership of professional body
  • 20 Taught course
  • 18 Research degree
  • 17 Consultancy
  • 17 External funding peer-review
  • 14 Personal board membership of professional/academic bodies
  • 12 Visiting an external academic institution
  • 7 Outreach and Public Engagement
  • 6 Exhibition, performance
  • 2 Representation of University on boards and bodies

Activities per year

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• Talk about Showing Resistance and Art on the Streets

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  13 Nov 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• The role of bureaucracies in histories of design activism

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  10 Oct 2025 → 12 Oct 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• ICDHS 14 "Cultures of Design," the 14th edition of the International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, at IIT Delhi on 10-12 October 2025

  Atkinson, H. (Member of programme committee)

  10 Oct 2025 → 12 Oct 2025

  Activity: Events › Conference

• Socks and Sandals: Fashion Faux Pas or Political Statement?

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  18 Sept 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Sussex Modernism Panel: What does it mean to be together?

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  6 Sept 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Consciousness, Costume and Camping: Decoding the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  25 Jul 2025 → 26 Jul 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• T. S. Eliot, Beethoven and Hitler

  Virkar, A. (Presenter)

  12 Jul 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Consultancy: Sussex Modernism

  Pollen, A. (Consultant)

  21 May 2025 → 28 Sept 2025

  Activity: Consultancy

• Domesticity Under Siege conference paper

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter) & Breakell, S. (Presenter)

  2 Apr 2025 → 4 Apr 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Interview for New Books Network Podcast

  Atkinson, H. (Participant)

  12 Mar 2025

  Activity: Events › Outreach and Public Engagement

• Invited talk at "Seeing Change - Methodological Approaches to Audio, Visual and Material Cultures in Activist Movements"

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  11 Mar 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Visual culture in Britain (Journal)

  Atkinson, H. (Reviewer)

  9 Mar 2025

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review

• Circle Dance: The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  2 Mar 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

  File

• AntiSocial: Nudity

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  21 Feb 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Brutal Brighton Valentines

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  20 Feb 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• FHK Henrion: Archive, Place, Memory ➔ Film

  Breakell, S. (Presenter)

  13 Feb 2025 → 15 Feb 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Workshop: Backstage of Modern Art: market, industry and propaganda that shaped the art and literature in 1890-1960s

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter) & Breakell, S. (Presenter)

  10 Feb 2025 → 12 Feb 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Crawley New Town seen through the lens of Wolf Suschitzky

  Winckler, J. (Organiser) & Wrighton, G. (Organiser)

  6 Feb 2025 → 26 Apr 2025

  Activity: Events › Exhibition, performance

• Children, Cameras, Comics

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  5 Feb 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

  File

• Invited talk: Exhibitions as manifestos, demonstrations, solidarities and weapons of war in Britain from 1933 to 1943

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  2 Feb 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Fashioning Sustainment: Special Issue Launch

  Esculapio, A. (Invited presenter) & Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  15 Jan 2025

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Drawing Out V

  Stevens, S. (Participant), Mulder, H. (Participant), Chen, Y. (Participant), Stevens, F. (Participant), Pusztaszeri, J. (Participant) & Siagkri, R. (Participant)

  8 Jan 2025

  Activity: Events › Event

• Crafting Fashion and Dress in the Longue Durée

  Rowland, S. (Participant)

  29 Nov 2024

  Activity: Events › Conference

  File

• Fashion Studies (Journal)

  Esculapio, A. (Editor) & Pollen, A. (Editor)

  29 Nov 2024

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work

• Panel to mark the publication of Kerry Meakin's new book "Professionalization of Window Display in Britain 1919-1939"

  Atkinson, H. (Participant)

  28 Nov 2024

  Activity: Events › Event

• An Archive State of Mind: Research Through Archive Practice

  Breakell, S. (Presenter)

  26 Nov 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• “What’s an Instamatic Camera? Photos are Taken on Phones!”: The Changing Story of Popular Photography in the National Science and Media Museum’s Kodak Gallery

  Knight, J. (Presenter)

  24 Nov 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Opposition and Antithesis: Anti-School Uniform Practices in two British Historical Contexts

  Pollen, A. (Presenter)

  20 Nov 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

  File

• Talk & showing of Art on the Streets at Coventry Cathedral

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  13 Nov 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Back to the Land: Revisiting Interwar Ideals

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  12 Nov 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation (Journal)

  Sweeting, B. (Reviewer)

  Nov 2024

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Publication Peer-review

• Material Memoirs: Telling Tales through Things

  Pollen, A. (Organiser)

  30 Oct 2024

  Activity: Events › Event

• Drawing Out IV

  Stevens, S. (Participant), Erckrath, C. (Participant), Meade, T. (Participant) & Chen, Y. (Participant)

  25 Oct 2024

  Activity: Events › Event

• Magical thinking with magical things: Living propaganda and operative art in the Kindred of the Kibbo Kift

  Pollen, A. (Keynote speaker)

  23 Oct 2024 → 25 Oct 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Showing Resistance: an introductory talk

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  15 Oct 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Confluences of Systemic Design: A Historical Exploration of Interdisciplinary Influences

  Swartz, J. (Presenter) & Sweeting, B. (Presenter)

  12 Oct 2024 → 26 Oct 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Flow, Reflexivity, and Recursion. Part 3: Returning to the Recursions of Cybernetics

  Sweeting, B. (Invited presenter)

  12 Oct 2024 → 26 Oct 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Paper at "Central and Eastern European Artists in Interwar Metropolises” conference, Budapest

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  10 Oct 2024 → 11 Oct 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Leiden University Press (Publisher)

  Pollen, A. (Reviewer)

  9 Oct 2024 → …

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work

• Visual culture in Britain (Journal)

  Pollen, A. (Member of editorial board)

  1 Oct 2024 → …

  Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work

• Film night at Curzon Clevedon Community Centre for the Arts

  Atkinson, H. (Participant)

  27 Sept 2024

  Activity: Events › Event

• T. S. Eliot, Mein Kampf and Nazi Kulturpolitik

  Virkar, A. (Presenter)

  20 Sept 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Oral presentation

• Public talk & screening at John Lewis Oxford Street

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  18 Sept 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Slippery definitions and controversial applications: Some political uniform case studies from British history

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  4 Sept 2024 → 5 Sept 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Collecting Silhouettes (Interview)

  Pollen, A. (Consultant)

  1 Sept 2024

  Activity: Consultancy

  File

• Stone Club at Timber Festival

  Pollen, A. (Invited presenter)

  3 Jul 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• Tailoring for Women: Theories and Methods

  Rowland, S. (Organiser) & Lance, J. (Organiser)

  29 Jun 2024

  Activity: Events › Conference

• Introductory talk at opening of Artists International Association: the first ten years

  Atkinson, H. (Presenter)

  28 Jun 2024

  Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk

• ACORSO EUROPEAN MUSEUM RESEARCH DAY

  Rowland, S. (Participant) & Taylor, L. (Organiser)

  22 Jun 2024

  Activity: Events › Conference

• Redressing Histories

  Rowland, S. (Organiser), Young, E. M. (Organiser), Nicklas, C. (Organiser), Isaac, V. (Organiser) & Damoiseaux, A. (Organiser)

  21 Jun 2024

  Activity: Events › Workshop