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Professor Steven Parissien is Director of Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park, Visiting Professor of Architectural History and Visual Heritage at Coventry University, and Visiting Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He took his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from the University of Oxford and has written extensively on architectural and cultural history: his twelve books to date include Regency Style (1992), George IV: The Grand Entertainment (2001) and The Comfort of the Past: Building Oxford 1815-2015 (2015).
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Dr Serena Dyer is Associate Professor of History of Fashion and Material Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester. Her prize-winning first book, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18th Century, was published by Bloomsbury in 2021. She also edited Shopping and the Senses (Palgrave, 2022), Disseminating Dress (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Material Literacy in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Bloomsbury, 2020). Before returning to academia, Serena was Curator of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture and Assistant Curator at the National Portrait Gallery. She is the presenter of English Heritage's Fashion Through History, and she regularly appears on radio and tv. She currently leads the AHRC-funded Making Historical Dress: Hands, Bodies and Methods Network.
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Malcolm Graham is a local historian of Oxford and Oxfordshire who was Local Studies Librarian for City and County between 1970 and 1990 and subsequently Head of Oxfordshire Studies with the County Council until he retired in 2008. He studied History at Nottingham University, did a MA in English Local History at Leicester and was awarded a PhD by Leicester for a study of Oxford's Victorian suburbs in 1985. His publications have included six Oxford Heritage Walks published by Oxford Preservation Trust between 2013 and 2020, the first two of which featured Cornmarket and St Giles’. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1999 and received a life-time personal achievement award from the British Association for Local History in 2021 for his work in Oxfordshire.
