Back to royal history with more royal jewels! This year, we are exploring the different royal jewellery collections across Europe and unsurprisingly (or maybe surprisingly?) they vary wildly. How many pieces are in the collection, when they were acquired, who can wear them now, this […]

When there is a new fashion history book, I am all over that. Because we do not get many (a shame given how popular it is with the general public), I make a point to purchase as many as I can. Fashion is a useful […]

With Women’s History Month 2025 (round 1) quickly coming to a close, I wanted to spend our last Style File Friday of the month focusing on a female designer. While I’ve looked at several popular designers from the late nineteenth and twentieth century (scroll down […]

We are returning back to our History of Royal Jewels series for Style File Friday this week! Royal families have wildly differing jewellery collections, and the “age” of the monarchy does not actually mean that an older royal family will have more. The Kingdom of […]

Back to Style File Friday for another dip into royal history- we return to our history of royal jewels series with a look to the north. We started this series by looking at the Belgian Royal Family’s jewellery vaults. Today, we are exploring Norway’s jewels. […]