Design History and the Creative Industries: Rachel Jardine in conversation

Image: Still from documentary The Mysterious Mr Webster'

Rachel Jardine is an award-winning Television Director, specialising in arts and history documentaries. She graduated from the Renaissance specialism of the V&A/RCA History of Design with a thesis on the early history of playing cards. Recent work includes: Makeup: A Glamorous History, presented by Youtube star Lisa Eldridge; No Place Like Home with Jay Blades; Agatha Christie, Mystery Queen presented by Lucy Worsley. She has directed numerous episodes of the art authentication series Fake or Fortune and experiential formats such as Back in Time for School. Her work has encompassed the history of Wallpaper, Horror films, Romantic fiction, Corporal Punishment, Ocean Liners, Anglo-Russian relations and Edwardian food brands, as well as the lives of Jane Austen, broadcaster Alistair Cooke and playwright John Webster. Rachel also deals in 1930s clothing, makes historical costumes, and plays in a brass band.

This event is part of the V&A/RCA History of Design 2022 Research Forum Series, which this year marks the 40th anniversary of our MA, as the first postgraduate programme in History of Design in the world. Our distinguished speakers this year all have direct past associations with the Programme and have been invited to dialogue with us, from their different perspectives, on the ways that Design History has informed cultural production in the wider world. Through these talks and in-conversations, the Research Forum Series for Autumn 2022 addresses Design History as an interdisciplinary and public-facing practice. Join us as we open up how History of Design at the V&A/RCA has made a contribution in many fields.

This will be a zoom streaming of a talk for V&A/RCA MA History of Design students. Alumni and the public are welcome to attend online and put forward questions during the event.

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