Prof Gale Owen-Crocker - personal details

 

Contact details

Role: Professsor of Anglo-Saxon Culture

Tel: 0161 275-3174

Location: Samuel Alexander Building-S1.11
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures
The University of Manchester
Manchester
M13 9PL

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Biography

She has lectured by invitation at universities in Canada, Italy, Taiwan and the USA. She has advised many museums on historical costume and is 'dress expert' to several archaeological units. She appeared in this role on BBC TV's 'Meet the Ancestors' and was recently interviewed for BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour. She is adviser on 'dress' words to the Toronto Old English Dictionary and wrote entries on 'Clothing' and 'Tapestry' for The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England and on 'Clothmaking' for a forthcoming encyclopaedia Women and Gender.

She is the Deputy Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, and directed the 2006 MANCASS international Easter conference 'Royal Authority: kingship and power in Anglo-Saxon England'.

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