Dr. Kate Strasdin has been for some years the honorary deputy curator at the Totnes Fashion and Textile Museum. We are delighted that she has recently agreed to join the board of Trustees of the Collection.
Dr. Strasdin is a senior lecturer in Cultural Studies at Falmouth University where she has taught since 2009. The research from her PhD, which she completed in 2013, was published as a book in October 2017, titled Inside the Royal Wardrobe: A Dress History of Queen Alexandra. Her second book, The Dress Diary of Mrs Anne Sykes: Secrets from a Victorian Woman’s Wardrobe, will be published in February 2023.
Dr. Strasdin is also a freelance consultant for dress and textile exhibitions, including acting as the historical consultant for the exhibition Royal Women at the Fashion Museum, Bath in 2018, named as one of Vogue’s top 12 exhibitions of the year. She has appeared as a costume historian on The Great British Sewing Bee and in a TV profile of Queen Alexandra.