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Due to the latest Government guidance, we are very sorry to announce that we are unable to go ahead with our Janet Arnold Study Day: The Politics of Fashion, planned for October 3rd at Widcombe Social Club, Bath. Booking is therefore closed.

We will be in contact with all those who have already made payments in due course.

See full details. Price Per Person: Member £28.00, Non Member £38.00, Lunch £8.50

A date for your diary See full details. Price Per Person: Member TBA, Non Member TBA

Historically shoes have always been a signifier of status and wealth and the more decorative and difficult to walk in the less functional they become. Today our desire for comfort in shoes, as in clothes, helped along by advances in textile technology, has led to function and fashion becoming more closely aligned.

Who would have thought that today virtually everyone from children taking their first steps to octogenarians trying to stay mobile would be wearing the same type of shoe, the trainer, which started life as a sports shoe. This study day will look at the history of fashionable shoes from Roman times to present day.

A great opportunity to wear your favourite, most outrageous sparkly trainers, impossible heels, or charity shop moccasins!

See full details. Price Per Person: Member £28.00, Non Member £38.00, Lunch £13.00

You are free to bring your own lunch and eat it on the premises if you wish.