Sally Jones

Sally Jones is an AHRC Techne-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award student. Her PhD is supported by the University of Brighton in collaboration with The Novium Museum, Chichester. Her research project, Selling Shippam’s: Food Consumption, Visuality and Culture, c.1930-1970, explores the advertising archive of Chichester-based food manufacturer Shippam’s. This archive (cared for by The Novium Museum) provides a case study of the evolution of twentieth-century food promotion. It also reflects wider social and cultural shifts in lifestyles and attitudes towards food, family, gender, class, and domesticity.

Prior to commencing her PhD, Sally worked on an Arts Council England-funded Unlocking Collections project about the Shippam’s advertising archive. This culminated in the headline exhibition, Hurrah for Shippam’s, at The Novium Museum.

Sally’s research centres around the material culture of everyday life. She is interested in the meanings carried by objects and images, and how these can inform complex histories.