Arts Discovery Lecture – Tuesday 18th November – 5.30pm

300 years of fast fashion in Yorkshire: using history to understand the challenges and opportunities of sustainable fashion by Dr Bethan Bide

Fast fashion and unsustainable practices of making and consuming clothes are considered a 21st century problem, but the history of fashion and textiles reveals these issues are nothing new. This talk explores Yorkshire’s important role in the global fashion industry from the 18th century onwards through the lens of sustainability. Examining the role of Yorkshire fashion as an agent for change – both positive and negative – and asks how this history could be applied to building a more sustainable industry today.

This year we will be holding a special session before our Arts Discovery Lecture. We have a Christmas Tree in the York Minster Christmas Tree Festival, and we would like our decorations to reflect the Merchant Adventurers’ links to the wool trade and the subject of this lecture. We are inviting all our lecture attendees to come to the Hall at 5.30pm and join us in a mass pom pom making session!

All equipment will be provided; no previous experience necessary and pom pom experts will be on hand to help! You will get to see your finished pom pom adorning the Merchant Adventurers’ Christmas in York Minster! So come and join us for a world’s first….pom pom making in a medieval guildhall.

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