Since 2010, Hilary Davidson has been consulting on archaeological textiles and dress excavated from English cemetary sites dated between the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century.

She is currently working on textiles from the HS2 site, the largest archaeological project ever undertaken in Britain.

Hilary’s PhD is in Archaeology from La Trobe Unievrsity, Melbourne.

PUBLICATIONS

2023       Forthcoming, ‘The Archaeology of Australian Clothing: Some Details and Directions’, Festschrift for Professor Tim Murray, Christine Williamson and Penelope Crook (eds).

Forthcoming, ‘Henry Wardell’s Flannel Waistcoat’ in Bethan Bide, Jade Halbert and Liz Tregenza (eds), Everyday Fashion (London: Bloomsbury Academic)

2020       ‘Страх моды? Археология униформы австралийских каторжников [Fear or Fashion?: The Archaeology of Australian Convict Uniforms]’, теориямоды: Одежда Тело Культура [Fashion Theory: Clothing Body Culture], Moscow: New Literary Observer, no. 55, 2020, 47-60.

2019       ‘Замогильные эмоции: текстиль и одежда с лондонских кладбищ XIX века [Grave Emotions: Clothing and Textiles from Nineteenth-Century London Cemeteries]’. теориямоды: Одежда Тело Культура [Fashion Theory: Clothing Body Culture], Moscow: New Literary Observer, no. 52, 2019, 241–66.

2016       ‘Grave Emotions: Clothing and Textiles from Nineteenth-Century London Cemeteries’ in Textile: The Journal of Cloth and Culture, special issue on Emotional Textiles, 14.2, 226-243. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2016.1139383

2013       ‘Textiles’ in Michael Henderson, Adrian Miles, Don Walker, with Brian Connell, Robin Wroe-Brown, ‘He being dead yet speaketh’: excavations at three post-medieval burial grounds in Tower Hamlets, east London, 2004–10 (MOLA Archaeology Studies 64), (London: Museum of London Archaeology Service), 78-84.

2012 ‘Textiles’ in Adrian Miles with Brian Connell, New Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, Southwark: Excavations at Globe Academy, 2008 (Molas Archaeology Studies) (London: Museum of London Archaeology), 54-56.