Dr Jo Horton FRSA FTLS is a historian, maker, and heritage consultant whose research focuses on textiles, fashion, and uniform. A Caird Fellow she has a special interest in the tailoring, embroidery, regalia, and ubiquitous tiddly suit of the wartime Women’s Royal Naval Service. Based at Royal Museums Greenwich-National Maritime Museum and Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre she pursued her passion for material culture and interviewed several Wrens who served in World War 2 and post war. Jo presented this work by invitation at the Barbara Pym Annual Conference 2024 at St Hilda’s College, Oxford.
Jo recently interrogated the practical lived experiences of uniform and bricolage of clothing and fabrics that built the nursing professions uniform, co-curating the exhibition ‘In Uniform’: https://www.fitzroviachapel.org/series/in-uniform-stories-of-nurses-and-their-clothing/.
Women’s Royal Naval Service: Uniforms, Bravery and Independence
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