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Transactions of the Burgon Society
Transactions of the Burgon Society is the annual journal of the Society. From its first edition in 2001 until its fourth edition in 2004, it was called The Burgon Society Annual, but since 2005 has held its present title.
Each edition presented here is in PDF format. Depending on the system you are using, you may wish to download the edition before reading it by right-clicking on the title or image and saving it to your hard disk.
In order to help identify articles, a list of contents is provided for each edition.
The Burgon Society Annual 2001 (1.5 MB)
Contents:
Towards a Standard Terminology for Describing Academic Dress. Nicholas Groves
A Short History of the Burgon Society. Nicholas Groves
Academical Dress in New Zealand. Noel Cox
The Origins and Development of Academical Dress at the Victoria University of Manchester. Philip Lowe
The Burgon Society Annual 2002 (11 MB)
Contents:
Burgon - A Hooded Progress. John Birch
Who may wear the 'Literate's Hood'? Nicholas Groves
French University Dress: Regulations and Custom. Bruno Neveu
The Evolution of the Oxford Simple Shape. Bruce Christianson
The Burgon Society Annual 2003 (12.5 MB)
Contents:
Academic Dress in Museum Collections. Susan North
Evolution of Hood Patterns. Nicholas Groves
Oxford Blues: The Search for the Origins of the Lay Bachelors' Hood. Bruce Christianson
Illustrations of Oxford Bachelors of Civil Law. Alex Kerr
Designing a College Trustee Gown. John Lundy
J.W.Burgon and the Eponymous Hood: A Trawl through Oxford University Archives. Clifford Dunkley
Reclothing Curwen. Nicholas Groves
Academical Dress in the University of Westminster. Philip Goff
The Burgon Society Annual 2004 (30.5 MB)
Contents:
The Regulation of Undergraduate Dress at Oxford and Cambridge, 1660-1832. William Gibson
Wearing Mummy's Clothes: An Introduction to Academical Archaeology. Nicholas Groves and Bruce Christianson
Unrecorded Engravings of Oxford Academic Dress from the Early Nineteenth Century. Alex Kerr
Academical Dress at the University of Sheffield: A Timeline. Nicholas Gledhill
In the Pink: The Strange Case of Trinity College Dublin. Bruce Christianson
Historical English Academic Robes: A Basis for a 'National' System.Nicholas Groves
Transactions of the Burgon Society Volume 5 (2005) (34 MB)
Contents:
Academic Dress in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. William Gibson
Academic Dress in Germany: Part I - A Historical Outline and the Development of a New System. Thorsten Hauler
The Question of Ecclesiastical Influences on French Academic Dress. Yves Mausen
Layer upon Layer: The Evolution of Cassock, Gown, Habit and Hood as Academic Dress. Alex Kerr
'A Hood for the Minister': Some Thoughts on Academic Hoods as Recorded in Eighteenth- and Early-Nineteenth-Century Church Inventories. Nicholas Groves
Lambeth Degree Academic Dress. Noel Cox
'With Velvet Facings': The Original London Robes. Nicholas Groves
Lined with Gold: London University and the Colour of Science. Bruce Christianson
The BCC Numbering System: Back to the Future? Elizabeth Scott
Academical Dress at Platt Hall, Manchester. Susan North
Transactions of the Burgon Society Volume 6 (2006) (13 MB)
Contents:
Tudor Sumptuary Laws and Academical Dress: An Act against Wearing of Costly Apparel 1509 and AnAct for Reformation of Excess in Apparel 1533. Noel Cox
Doctors' Greens. Bruce Christianson
Masters of Grammar: A Forgotten Degree. Nicholas Groves
The Academical Dress of the University of Stirling, 1967-2006. Colin Fleming
Merging Traditions: Academical Dress and Nursing. Elizabeth Scott
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