Selected articles, catalogue entries and essays
- Entry on accessories in Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, volume 8 West Europe, Oxford and New York, 2010
- The Fashionable Merchant: A Case Study in City Merchants and the Arts, Oblong for the Corporation of London, 2004
- Entries on make-up, theatre costume etc. for The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre & Performance, OUP 2003
- Costume or Clothes? Dressing the 1815 Season at the Sans Pareil Theatre in Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film, 29/2 (Winter 2002)
- The Harry Matthews Collection of Fashion Plates for Print Quarterly, 2002
- Entries for The Oxford Companion to the Body, OUP 2001
- (With Ralph Hyde) Benjamin Read, Tailor & Printmaker for Print Quarterly, 2000
- The body and clothing for The Way, 1999
- George IV’s coronation, dandies etc. in Metropole London 1800 – 1840, Kulturstiftung Ruhr/Bongers 1992; in English as London World City 1800 – 1840, Yale University Press 1992
- Dress and jewellery in Treasures & Trinkets, Museum of London 1991
- Royal clothing and furs in The Late King’s Goods, OUP 1989
- Ellen Terry: an Aesthetic Actress and her Costumes, in Costume 21, Leeds, 1987
- Royal Attributes: The Dress of Two Royal Cousins 1542 – 1587, Royal Stuart Society, 1984
- Entries on gloves in Tradescant’s Rarities, OUP 1983
- Macbeth at the Lyceum, 1888 in Costume 12, Leeds, 1978
- The Trousseau of Princess Elizabeth Stuart in Collectanea Londinensis, Museum of London 1978
Reviews of books and exhibitions have appeared in a variety of journals from 1980 to the present, including many recent contributions to Costume and to the Costume Society’s Newsletter.
