Addressing the Dress: Engaging with the Controversial Remains of British Imperialism-Sources

Poster Presented at NCPH Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah April 11, 2024

Detailed below is a list of Sources consulted for the poster presentation given at Salt Lake City, Utah NCPH Conference 2024. This list is not exhaustive and is taken from an ongoing chapter from my graduate thesis. For more information about this topic and the sources used, please contact me at alrumley@una.edu or addressingthedress@gmail.com.

Primary Sources 

Bentley, Grace. “All That Is Gold: Recreating the Peacock Dress.” n.d. The Costume Society. https://costumesociety.org.uk/blog/post/all-that-is-gold-recreating-the-peacock-dress. 

Blay, Pearl. n.d. “The ReMaking of the Peacock Dress - Uncovering a Dark History.” The Beading Gem. October 22, 2020. https://www.beadinggem.com/2020/10/the-remaking-of-peacock-dress.html. 

Hay, Catherine. Interview by Alana Rogers, August 18, 2023. Email Correspondence, transcript, Personal Library of Alana Rogers. 

Milburn, Kevin. “Delhi Durbar Dress. In Derbyshire. | Books & Print Sandbox.” n.d. Old.react-Hub.org.uk. March 26, 2013. http://old.react-hub.org.uk/books-and-print-sandbox/projects/2013/digitising-the-dollar-princess/journal/delhi-durbar-dress-in-derbyshire/. 

Nami Sparrow. “The Peacock Dress Is Problematic || Don’t Make It,” September 19, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYxRBRYxWo8. 

National Trust. “Caring For Lady Mary Curzon’s Peacock Dress.” 2021. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/peak-district-derbyshire/kedleston-hall/our-work-caring-for-lady-mary-curzons-peacock-dress. 

Restore Trust. “Lord Curzon, the National Trust, and the Eastern Museum - History Reclaimed.” October 19, 2021. https://historyreclaimed.co.uk/lord-curzon-the-national-trust-and-the-eastern-museum/. 

Secondary Sources 

Bradley, John. Lady Curzon’s India: Letters of a Vicereine. London, UK: Weidenfield and Nicolson. 1985. 

Britannica, T. Editors of Encyclopaedia. "Mary Victoria Leiter Curzon." Encyclopedia Britannica, July 14, 2023. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mary-Victoria-Leiter-Curzon. 

Darwin, John. Unfinished Empire: The Global Expansion of Britain. Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2012. 

Kennedy, Dane. The Imperial History Wars: Debating the British Empire. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018. 

Knight, Lionel. Britain in India, 1858-1947. London: Anthem Press, 2012.  

MacKenzie, John M. A Cultural History of the British Empire. Yale University Press, 2022. 

Onken, Rebecca. “The Peacock Dress: The Language of British Imperialism in India, 1899-1905.” Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History no 12, 1. January 2022. 

Porter, Bernard. British Imperial: What the Empire Wasn’t. I.B. Tauris, 2015. 

Sanghera, Sathnam. Empireland: How Imperialism Has Shaped Modern Britain. Pantheon, 2023. 

Thakur, Kundan Kumar. “British Colonial Exploitation of India and Globalization.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress 74 (2013): 405-15. 

Thomas, Nicola J. “Embodying Imperial Spectacle: Dressing Lady Curzon, Vicereine of India 1899-1905.” Cultural Geographies 14, no. 3 (2007): 369–400. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44251153. 

Woodward, C. Vann. “The Age of Reinterpretation.” The American Historical Review 66, no. 1 (1960): 1–19. https://doi.org/10.2307/1845704.