Dr Vivienne Richmond's principal field of research is the effect of industrialisation on British working-class life, with a particular focus on dress and textiles. She  completed a monograph, Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-century England (forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2013), and other projects in progress include work on women, needlework and disability in late Victorian/Edwardian England and the material culture of death among the London poor 1832-70.

Dr Vivienne Richmond is also interested in public history and research methodology, especially the use of visual, material and fictional sources as historical evidence. She would welcome enquiries from people who wish to undertake a research degree in British nineteenth- and/or twentieth-century cultural history.

Doctoral research students

Jane Custance Baker, 'Decoding dress in interwar detective fiction'
Cheryl Deedman, 'The impact of nineteenth-century popular literature on young women's mentalities'
John Woolf, 'The Freak Show in nineteenth-century Britain'

Fellowships

Vera Douie Fellow, The Women's Library, London Metropolitan University, 2005-06

Book

Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England
Richmond, Vivienne. 2013. Clothing the Poor in Nineteenth-Century England. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107042278

Edited Book

Working-Class Dress, vol. 3 of Clothing, Society, Culture in Nineteenth-century England 3 vols
Richmond, Vivienne and Rose, Clare, eds. 2010. Working-Class Dress, vol. 3 of Clothing, Society, Culture in Nineteenth-century England 3 vols. London: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 1848930124

Clothing, Society and Culture in Nineteenth-Century England
Richmond, Vivienne and Rose, Clare, eds. 2010. Clothing, Society and Culture in Nineteenth-Century England. London, UK: Pickering & Chatto. ISBN 9781848930124

Book Section

'Status'
Richmond, Vivienne. 2016. 'Status'. In: Denise Amy Baxter, ed. A Cultural History of Dress and Fashion, Vol. 5, The Age of Empire (1800-1920). 5 London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 121-139. ISBN 9781472557490

Stitching Women: Unpicking Histories of Victorian Clothes
Richmond, Vivienne. 2016. Stitching Women: Unpicking Histories of Victorian Clothes. In: Hannah Greig; Jane Hamlett and Leonie Hannan, eds. Gender and Material Culture in Britain Since 1600. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 90-103. ISBN 978-1-137-34064-1

Crafting Inclusion for ‘Invalid’ Women: The Girls’ Friendly Society Central Needlework Depôt, 1899–1947
Richmond, Vivienne. 2014. Crafting Inclusion for ‘Invalid’ Women: The Girls’ Friendly Society Central Needlework Depôt, 1899–1947. In: Beverly Lemire; Janice Helland and Alena Buis, eds. Craft, Community and the Material Culture of Place and Politics, 19th-20th Century. Farnham: Ashgate, pp. 161-176. ISBN 9781409462071

The English Church Jumble Sale: Parochial Charity in the Modern Age
Richmond, Vivienne. 2010. The English Church Jumble Sale: Parochial Charity in the Modern Age. In: Ilja Van Damme and Jon Stobart, eds. Modernity and the Second-Hand Trade: European Consumption Cultures and Practices 1700-1900. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 242-258. ISBN 9780230229464

Stitching the Self: Eliza Kenniff’s Drawers and the Materialization of Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century London
Richmond, Vivienne. 2009. Stitching the Self: Eliza Kenniff’s Drawers and the Materialization of Identity in Late-Nineteenth-Century London. In: Maureen Goggin and Beth Fowkes Tobin, eds. Women and things: Gendered material practices, 1750-1950. Ashgate, pp. 43-54. ISBN 9780754665502

Article

Rubbish or Riches? Buying from Church Jumble Sales in late-Victorian England
Richmond, Vivienne. 2010. Rubbish or Riches? Buying from Church Jumble Sales in late-Victorian England. Journal of Historical Research in Marketing, 2(3), pp. 327-341. ISSN 1755-750X

'Indiscriminate liberality subverts the Morals and depraves the habits of the Poor': A Contribution to the Debate on the Poor Law, Parish Clothing Relief and Clothing Societies in Early Nineteenth-Century England
Richmond, Vivienne. 2009. 'Indiscriminate liberality subverts the Morals and depraves the habits of the Poor': A Contribution to the Debate on the Poor Law, Parish Clothing Relief and Clothing Societies in Early Nineteenth-Century England. Textile History, 40(1), pp. 51-69. ISSN 0040-4969

It is not a Society for human beings but for virgins: The Girls' Friendly Society membership eligibility dispute 1875-1936
Richmond, Vivienne. 2007. It is not a Society for human beings but for virgins: The Girls' Friendly Society membership eligibility dispute 1875-1936. Journal of Historical Sociology, 20(3), pp. 304-327. ISSN 09521909

Conference or Workshop Item

Feminism@Goldsmiths
Greenan, Althea; George, Rosalyn P.; Joncus, Berta; Richmond, Vivienne and Wolf, Nicole. 2014. 'Feminism@Goldsmiths'. In: Feminism@Goldsmiths. Goldsmiths, Universirty of London, United Kingdom.

Digital

Bear Ye One Another's Burdens, The Girls' Friendly Society 1875-2005
Richmond, Vivienne. 2007. Bear Ye One Another's Burdens, The Girls' Friendly Society 1875-2005.

Exhibition Catalogue

A Remedy for Rents: Darning Samplers and Other Needlework from the Whitelands College Collection
Richmond, Vivienne. 2016. A Remedy for Rents: Darning Samplers and Other Needlework from the Whitelands College Collection.