The Ulster Tailor 1828 - 1883: From Shop Boy to Royal Clothier

What is Fashion? Conference
Dr Hannah Rumball-Croft, Groves, Andrew and Grose, V. 2025. What is Fashion? Conference.

“She could not see him put his arms around his female customers to take their measure and maintain her composure”: Tact, timidity, and touch in women’s tailoring
Dr Hannah Rumball-Croft 2025. “She could not see him put his arms around his female customers to take their measure and maintain her composure”: Tact, timidity, and touch in women’s tailoring. At Home with C19th Dress and Textiles Reframed Network. Online 28 Sep 2025

The Ladies Ulster: “Ulsters were decidedly regarded as essentially masculine attire”
Dr Hannah Rumball 2025. The Ladies Ulster: “Ulsters were decidedly regarded as essentially masculine attire”. Tailoring Identities: The long history of the masculinisation of womenswear. Pantheon Sorbonne, Paris 30 Jun - 01 Jul 2025

The Ulster Ulster
Dr Hannah Rumball 2024. The Ulster Ulster. Locating Menswear Forum. Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester 04 - 05 Jul 2024

Book review: Sanda Miller, Images on the Page: A Fashion Iconography
Rumball, Hannah 2024. Book review: Sanda Miller, Images on the Page: A Fashion Iconography. Costume. 58 (1), pp. 151-152. https://doi.org/10.3366/cost.2024.0298

"We Must Hope That the Moderates with Their Quiet Attire Are the Rising Section": British Women Friends’ Relinquishment of Plain Dress
Rumball, H. 2023. "We Must Hope That the Moderates with Their Quiet Attire Are the Rising Section": British Women Friends’ Relinquishment of Plain Dress. in: Robynne Rogers Healey and Carole Dale Spencer (ed.) Quaker Women, 1800-1920: Studies of a Changing Landscape Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 222-244

The Ladies Ulster in the 1870s and 1880s: From “Eccentric-Looking” to “Beau Ideal”
Hannah Rumball 2023. The Ladies Ulster in the 1870s and 1880s: From “Eccentric-Looking” to “Beau Ideal”. Textile: Cloth and Culture. 21 (1), pp. 300-328. https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2022.2084317

Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Contexts, ed. by Heike Jenss and Viola Hofmann
Rumball, H. 2021. Fashion and Materiality: Cultural Practices in Global Contexts, ed. by Heike Jenss and Viola Hofmann. Costume. 55 (1), pp. 147-148.

How waterproof were Ulsters? Analysing the waterproof claims of Ladies c 19th ulsters
Rumball, H. 2020. How waterproof were Ulsters? Analysing the waterproof claims of Ladies c 19th ulsters. Early tailored clothes for women, 1800-1875: TEAMS RIG Tailoring Group Meeting. Online - London 26 Nov 2020

As “a hedge, as a convenience, a good thing”: Elizabeth Petipher Cash’s continued fashioning of a Plain appearance
Rumball, H. 2019. As “a hedge, as a convenience, a good thing”: Elizabeth Petipher Cash’s continued fashioning of a Plain appearance. 107th CAA Annual Conference. New York, New York, United States 13 - 16 Feb 2016

Symposium Review: Reframing 19th-century Fashion and Dress Symposium
Rumball, H. 2019. Symposium Review: Reframing 19th-century Fashion and Dress Symposium. Centre for Design History, University of Brighton.

A Celebration of Plainness: Worthing Museum’s Quaker Wedding Bonnet, 1843
Dr Hannah Rumball 2018. A Celebration of Plainness: Worthing Museum’s Quaker Wedding Bonnet, 1843.

“It makes us cringe these days”: Killerton House National Trust and the alteration of Elizabeth Petipher Cash’s everyday Quaker bonnets
Rumball, H. 2018. “It makes us cringe these days”: Killerton House National Trust and the alteration of Elizabeth Petipher Cash’s everyday Quaker bonnets. Textiles and Dress from Below: Ordinary and everyday textiles and dress in museums and historic houses. University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom 07 Jun 2018

A Celebration of Plainness: Worthing Museum’s Quaker Wedding Bonnet, 1843
Rumball, H. 2018. A Celebration of Plainness: Worthing Museum’s Quaker Wedding Bonnet, 1843.

Conference review: Restraint and Excess in Fashion: Costume Colloquium V, 16 – 20 November, 2016, Florence, Italy
Rumball, H. and Vaughan Kett, A. 2018. Conference review: Restraint and Excess in Fashion: Costume Colloquium V, 16 – 20 November, 2016, Florence, Italy. Centre for Design History, University of Brighton.

British Quaker Women's Fashionable Adaptation of their Plain Dress, 1860–1914
Hannah Rumball 2018. British Quaker Women's Fashionable Adaptation of their Plain Dress, 1860–1914. Costume. 52 (2), pp. 240-260. https://doi.org/10.3366/cost.2018.0070

British Quaker Women’s abandonment of Plain Quaker attire, 1860-1914
Rumball, H. 2017. British Quaker Women’s abandonment of Plain Quaker attire, 1860-1914. The Association of Dress Historians New Research in Dress History Conference . University of Brighton 25 Feb 2017

Conference Review: From Quakers to Cowboys
Rumball, H. 2017. Conference Review: From Quakers to Cowboys. Centre for Design History, University of Brighton.

Negotiating Simplicity and Extravagance in Nineteenth Century Quaker Dress: Restraint and Excess in the Clothing Worn by Eleanor Stephens Clark and Helen Bright Clark of Street
Rumball, H. 2016. Negotiating Simplicity and Extravagance in Nineteenth Century Quaker Dress: Restraint and Excess in the Clothing Worn by Eleanor Stephens Clark and Helen Bright Clark of Street. Costume Colloquium V: Restraint and Excess in Fashion and Dress. Florence, Italy 17 - 20 Nov 2016

Visibility and Invisibility
Rumball, H. 2016. Visibility and Invisibility. Critical Studies. 2, pp. 30-39.