Juliet Braidwood
Juliet Braidwood is a historian specialising in living history.
She made her first “Tudor” dress at the age of 11, and when she discovered Kentwell at the age of 16, her interest in 16th Century dress only escalated.
She gained her degree in History at Royal Holloway University of London, where she looked at much as possible at English women’s fashion in the Early Modern period.
She has worked as a living historian at events held at a wide variety of places, from Castle Coch, to Christchurch College, to the National Horse Racing Museum.
Currently she works primarily at Athelhampton House,
where she has set up their living history events as well as running their schools programme
and undertaking research on the families who used to live there. In this capacity she has been uncovering personal stories not just of those who
owned the house and the surrounding land, but also of the people who lived and worked there.
Her main sewing project currently is a re-creation of the early 17th Century embroidered waistcoat in the Burrell Collection, which has very similar
embroidery to another one in Bath Fashion Museum.
Alongside this, she is working on patterning the extant 19th Century garments in her collection,
and then making those patterns available for others to use for making and research.
