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Shoes: Laurie Taylor explores their cultural history and sociological meanings.

Shoes: Laurie Taylor explores their cultural history and sociological meanings. He's joined by Elizabeth Semmelhack, Senior Curator of the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Tim Edwards, Honorary Fellow in Sociology at the University of Leicester and Naomi Braithwaite, Senior Lecturer in the School of Art & Design at Nottingham Trent University.

Producer: Jayne Egerton

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Mon 12 Nov 201800:15
BBC Radio 4

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Naomi Braithwaite at Nottingham Trent University 

Tim Edwards at the University of Leicester 

Elizabeth Semmelhack Senior Curator at Bata Shoe Museum, Toronto

READING LIST

Elizabeth Semmelhack, Shoes - The Meaning of Style, (Reaktion Books Ltd., 2017)


Tim Edwards, Fashion in Focus: Concepts, Practices and Politics, (Routledge, 2010)

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  • Wed 7 Nov 201816:00
    BBC Radio 4
  • Mon 12 Nov 201800:15
    BBC Radio 4

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