Serena Dyer

Serena is a historian, writer, and broadcaster specialising in histories of fashion, shopping, and women’s lives from the sixteenth century to the present day. She holds a PhD in History from the University of Warwick, and she is Associate Professor of Fashion History at De Montfort University, Leicester.

Her words have appeared in The Independent, History Today, and The Conversation and she is a regular expert contributor and consultant for radio and television. She writes and presents Fashion Through History, a digital media series produced by Our Media for English Heritage.

She is the author of two academic monographs, Material Lives: Women Makers and Consumer Culture in the 18^th Century (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021) and Labour of the Stitch: The Making and Remaking of Fashionable Georgian Dress (Cambridge University Press, 2024), and has edited volumes including Embodied Experiences of Making in Early Modern Europe: Bodies, Gender, and Material Culture (Amsterdam University Press, 2024), Shopping and the Senses: A Sensory History of Retail and Consumption, 1800-1970 (Palgrave, 2022), Disseminating Dress: Britain’s Fashion Networks, 1600-1970 (Bloomsbury, 2022) and Material Literacy in Eighteenth Century Britain: A Nation of Makers (Bloomsbury, 2020). She is currently working on her first trade book.