The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe ear-rings rioting over working conditions and

rioting over working conditions and the terrible human cost of Britain's cotton industry

By Samantha Ellis

Three DVD collection

Harold Mitchell

Category: Journal

The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe ear-rings rioting over working conditions andBy Kate Strasdin The hidden fabric of a Victorian woman's life told through her unique scrapbook. In 1838, Anne Sykes was given a diary on her wedding day. Using it to collect snippets of fabric, she created a record of her life and times. Nearly two hundred years later, the diary fell into the hands of fashion historian Kate Strasdin who spent the next six years unravelling the secrets contained within its pages. Piece by piece, she charts Anne's