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.

2023

Michael Bunton, Decently and in order: the Warham Guild hood

Anthony Johnson, John Rous: don, divine or dandy? Determining academic dress as distinct from the clerical – and the civil from both – in 15th century England, with particular reference to the University of Oxford

Andrew Plant, Designing in circles, conversing in triangles, dressing in squares: tracing the evolution of the academical dress of the University of Sussex 1958–1966

Liran Renert, Coats of many colours: a brief review of academic dress in Israel

Samuel Teague, The contemporary usage of academic hoods in Oxford collegiate choirs

2022

Paul Hayward, Red or blue? A search for the origins of academic dress at the University of Bristol

Nicholas Rowe, The academical dress of Finland: a contemporary (re)introduction

Philip Waters, UK academic dress and its application beyond the UK – the experience of the University of Hertfordshire

2021

Andrew-John Bethke, A brief historical overview and description of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s ceremonial and academic attire

Paul Coxon, Something old, something new, something borrowed, something palatinate purple: Two centuries of academic dress in Newcastle

Nicholas Heavens, Peculiar and proper habits: The use and production of academic dress in Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Philadelphia

Andrew Hogg, Costume and practice: evolution in design and use of the Chancellor’s and Pro-Chancellor’s robes at the University of Dublin, Trinity College (1800-2020)

Simon Morris, The invention of tradition – the Cambridge benefactors’ gowns

Mitchell Nicholls, Tropical raiment: The academic regalia of the University of the West Indies 1948-2020

Edward Ripley, Academic dress of the University of Bath 1966-2020

2020

Martin Hardcastle, Cap and gown? Use of headgear at graduation in UK universities in the 21st Century

Jack Lindsay, Academic dress of Australia

Brian Newman, The evolution of undergraduate academic dress at the University of Cambridge and its constituent colleges

David Parker, University of Leeds academic dress

Scott Pilkington, History and development of university doctoral academical dress in Aotearoa (New Zealand)

2019

Valentina Grub, A Brief History of Academic Dress in the Middle East and the Maghreb

David Quy, An Overview of the History of Academic Dress of the University of Exeter since its Foundation by Royal Charter in 1955

Byron Rangiwai, Kākahu and Gown: The Incorporation of Kākahu into Academical Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand with an Example of a Kākahu Worn at a City University of New York Graduation Ceremony in 2006—An Interview with Sarah Smith (published article)

Alexander Yen, Lumen ex Oriente: Academic Dress of the University of Hong Kong, 1911–1941

2018

Edmund Eggleston, The Academic Dress of the University of Essex

Michael Everett, Faculty Attitudes and Beliefs toward Use of Academic Regalia at a Land-Grant University

Thomas Goodman, The Academic Dress of the University of Birmingham

Steven Peay, ‘Appropriate Hoods’: The Development of Academic Dress at Nashotah House Theological Seminary

2017

Alice Hynes, Development of Academic Dress in Kingston University

Martin Lewis, Weaving the Fabric of Success: Exploring the Academic Attire of Eton College from 1440

2016

Peter Chiu, Academic Dress in China from 1994 to 2011

Peter Clarke, McKinlay’s People: A Study of the Academic Dress of the University of Bradford

John Harding, Academical Dress and the Old Testament Prophets’ Gowns: Some Observations on the Nature and Propriety of Academical Dress

John Lancaster, Dressing by Degrees: Academic Dress in British Columbia 1866-1966

2015

Kenneth Suit Jr, The Iridescent Web: American Degree Colours 1895 – 1935

Sandra Wearden, How Academic Dress is mobilised in relation to Degree Ceremonies

2014

Seamus Hargrave, The Church and the Trencher: An examination into how England’s changing theology and church has influenced the evolution and design of the square cap causing its use as academic attire

2013

Graham Deans, "Hooded Crows?"- A Reflection on Scottish Ecclesiastical Dress and Ministerial Practice from the Reformation to the Present Day

Andrew North, The Development of the Academic Dress of the University of Oxford, 1920-2012

Klaus Solberg Søilen, Academical Dress in Sweden

2012

Neil Dickson, Tradition and Humour in the Academic Dress of the University of Glasgow

Charles Ko, The Development of Academic Regalia in China

Leonard Newton, Factors Influencing the Evolution of Academic Dress at Kenyatta University, Kenya

Jason Tester, The Introduction and Practice of Academical Dress in Japan

2011

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

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

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

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

2009

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

Michael Brewer, Academic Dress in Canterbury

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

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

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

2008

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

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

2006

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

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

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

2005

Clifford Dunkley, Academic Dress of the University of Leicester

Liz Scott, Nurses and Academic Dress

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

2003

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

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

2001

Noel Cox, Academical Dress in New Zealand

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

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