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Successful Fellowship Submissions

The following is a list of all successful submissions for fellowship of the Burgon Society, listed by the date of the Congregation at which the authors were admitted.

2001

Philip Lowe, Manchester Academic Dress: The Origins and Development of Academical Dress at the Victoria University of Manchester, 1880 to the present day

Nicholas Groves, The Academical Robes of Saint David's College Lampeter (1822-1971)

Noel Cox, Academical Dress in New Zealand

2002

John Lundy, Academical Dress of the Republic of South Africa, with Especial Reference to the University of Witwatersrand

Steven Plank, Academic Regalia at Oberlin: the Establishment and Dissolution of a Tradition

Ambrose Southward, Is Academic Dress obsolete in the 21st Century?; St Bees Theological College, 1816-1898: A Study of Academical Dress; and Carlisle and Blackburn Diocesan Training Institute: Its Hood

2003

Bill Gibson, The Regulation of Undergraduate Academic Dress at Oxford and Cambridge, 1660-1832

2004

Nicholas Gledhill, A Study of the Regulation of Academical Dress at the University of Sheffield

Thorsten Hauler, Academical Dress in Germany: A Historical Outline and the Development of a New System

2005

Clifford Dunkley, Academic Dress of the University of Leicester

Liz Scott, Nurses and Academic Dress

2006

Colin Fleming, The Academical Dress of the University of Stirling 1967-2005

John Brennan, The Robes of the Medical Royal Colleges and Other Societies - Medical Education outside the Universities

Matthew Cheung Salisbury, By our gowns were we known: The development of Academic Dress at the University of Toronto

David Baldwin, Having Dignities...: Academic Attire as a Component of the Livery of the Chapel Royal

2008

Nicholas Jackson, The Development of Academic Dress in the University of Warwick

Kenneth Crawford, The Cutting Edge of Academe: Trends in the Manufacture of Academical Dress

2009

John Grant, Many Coloured Coats: The Systems of Academical Dress in Nova Scotian Universities

Donald Drakeman, "Peculiar Habits": Academic Costumes at Princeton University

Stephen Wolgast, King's Crowns: The History of Academic Dress at King's College and Columbia University

Michael Brewer, Academic Dress in Canterbury

Richard Baker, The Academic Dress of the University of Hull 1954 to the present day, and including the Hull York Medical School from 2003

2010

Robert Armagost, University Uniforms: The Standardization of Academic Dress in the United States

David Boven, American Universities' Departure from the Academic Costume Code

Jonathan Cooper, The Scarlet Gown: History and Development of Scottish Undergraduate Dress

Les Robarts, The Vice-Chancellor's ad hoc Committee, University of West Bromich, Considers the Place of Academic Dress in a Contemporary University: A Dramatic Discussion

2011

Nicholas Hoffman, Crow's Feet in Cambridge: the Academic Dress of America's Oldest University

Oliver Keenan, How can Academical Dress Survive in the Third Millennium?

Alan Ross, Togas Gradui et Facultati Competentes: the Creation of New Doctoral Robes at Oxford 1895-1920

Kathryn Douglas, Drawings for the Third Edition of Shaw's Academical Dress

Charles Tsua, A Study of the History and Use of Lace on Academical Gowns in the United Kingdom