Transactions of the Burgon Society

Vol. 24 (2024)

Douglas MacMillan
The Royal College of Music: Its History, Degrees, and Diplomas

Liran Renert
Coats of Many Colours: A Brief Review of Academic Dress in Israel

Philip Goff
The Academic Dress of the Associates of King’s College London

Scott Pilkington
A Century of PhD Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand

Peter Campbell
'Do not Show Yourself Inferior to Your Ancestors': Is Doctoral Dress Down Under Distinctive or Derivative?

Vol. 23 (2023)

Primary Source: Philip Goff
The Development of the Burgon Society Hoods

Bruce Christianson, Philip Goff, and Nicholas Groves
Capuciis Furruratis cum Serico Duplicatis: Furred Hoods with Silk Linings from the Late Nineteenth Century

Andrew Plant
Designing in Circles, Conversing in Triangles, Dressing in Squares: Evolving the Academic Dress of the University of Sussex, 1958–1963

Edward Teather
The History of Undergraduate Academical Dress in Britain’s Modern Universities since 1880, with a Discussion of its Recent and Current Use

Samuel Teague
The Contemporary Usage of Academic Hoods in Oxford Collegiate Choirs

Peter A. Thompson
An Odd Habit: A Study of the Use of the Academic Hood in the Portraits of the Archbishops of Armagh

Vol. 22 (2022)

The Academic Dress of the University of York; The Robes for Degrees in Music of the University of London; The Academic Dress of Doctors of Philosophy at the University of London; The Oxford Convocation Habit: An Endangered Species of Academic Dress; 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); The Academical Dress of Finland: A Contemporary (Re)Introduction; Academic Dress of the University of Bath 1966–2020; Erratum, Vol. 21: Peculiar and Proper Habits: The Use and Production of Academic Dress in Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Philadelphia; In Memoriam: Dr Nicholas Groves, FBS.

Vol. 21 (2021)

The Curious Case of a Women’s Academic Collar; A Historical Overview and Description of the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Ceremonial and Academic Attire; Peculiar and Proper Habits: The Use and Production of Academic Dress in Colonial, Revolutionary, and Federal Philadelphia; A Study of the History and Use of Lace on Academical Gowns in the United Kingdom and Ireland: Updates and Corrections; The Invention of Tradition: The Cambridge Benefactors’ Gowns; Coloured Velvet is Too Gaudy: The 1861 Reforms to the Academical Costume of the University of London; Fossils in Silk: Historical Hoods of Trinity College, Toronto; History and Development of University Doctoral Dress in Aotearoa New Zealand; Bristol Blue: A Search for the Origins of Academic Dress at the University of Bristol; University of Portsmouth Academic Dress; The Lack of a Theology Hood at the University of the West Indies, by Mitchell A. Nicholls, in Vol. 20.

Vol. 20 (2020)

In memoriam: Robin L. D. Rees; Primary Source: Examining Official Dress in Universities in Aotearoa New Zealand; ‘Different Forms of Gowns for All Sorts of Scholars in their Several Ranks’: Academic Undress at Oxford in 1635; Cap and Gown? Use of Headgear at Graduation in UK Universities in the Twenty-First Century; The Evolution of Undergraduate Academic Dress at the University of Cambridge and its Constituent Colleges; A Grave Decent Gown: The 1690 Glasgow Gown Order; Reaping the Whirlwind: American Degree and Subject Colours (1962-Present); The Hoods of the Three Senior Doctorates at Edinburgh; Reflections of Designing the Academic Dress of the University of Hertfordshire; The Lack of a Theology Hood at the University of the West Indies; ‘Degrees of Degrees’: An Alternative Structure; Response to Professor Zellick’s Article.

Special edition: Hoods by the Armful