Member Profile
Name:
Dr. Fiona Machugh
Institution:
Academic status:
Independent scholar
Main discipline:
History
Additional disciplines:
Art History
Historical craftwork in practice (living history)
Historical craftwork in practice (living history)
Other societies:
Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Braid Society
Braid Society
Research interests:
My focus is on social history of the Victorian period and wider 19th Century. My PhD considered the impact of medical discourse on the trials of women found insane at London's Central Criminal Court and their post-trial treatment especially in Broadmoor Asylum for the Criminally Insane. I have a keen interest in what histories of crime and their archives can reveal to us about wider society. I also have a keen interest in textile history and its connection to crime and am currently researching the rag-trade and second hand clothing trade, especially in its relation to criminal cases.