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1 ‘Introduction’, Textile History, 1, no. 1 (1968–1970), p. 1.

2 Such discontinuity is recently manifested in the proposed labelling of the current geological age as ‘Anthropocene’, where human activity is the dominant influence not only on human society but also on the earth’s environment.

3 D. Jenkins, ‘Textile History: 40 Years’, Textile History, 39, no. 1 (2008), pp. 4–15.

4 S. D. Chapman, ‘James Longsdon (1745–1821), Farmer and Fustian Manufacturer: The Small Firm in the Early English Cotton Industry’, Textile History, 1, no. 3 (1968–1970), pp. 265–92; S. D. Chapman, ‘Fixed Capital Formation in the Early British Cotton Industry’, Economic History Review, 23, no. 2 (1970), pp. 235–53; S. D. Chapman, The Cotton Industry in the Industrial Revolution (London: Macmillan, 1972).

5 S. D. Chapman, ‘The Textile Factory before Arkwright: A Typology of Factory Development’, Business History Review, 48, no. 4 (1974), pp. 451–78.

6 E. Baines, History of the Cotton Manufacture in Great Britain (London: H. Fisher, R. Fisher and P. Jackson, 1835); A. P. Wadsworth and J. Mann, Cotton Trade and Industrial Lancashire, 1600–1780 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1931). Chapman published a reprint series including these two titles. S. D. Chapman, ed., The Cotton Industry: Its Growth and Impact, 1600–1935, 9 vols (Bristol: Thoemmes Press; Tokyo: Kyokuto Shoten, 1999).

7 N. B. Harte and K. G. Ponting, eds, Textile History and Economic History (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1973).

8 D. T. Jenkins, ‘The Validity of the Factory Returns 1833–50’, Textile History, 4, no. 1 (1973), pp. 26–46, and ‘The Factory Returns 1850–1905’, Textile History, 9, no. 1 (1978), pp. 58–74; N. B. Harte and K. G. Ponting, ‘A Review of Periodical Literature on Textile History Published in 1972’, Textile History, 5, no. 1 (1974), pp. 152–56; ‘A Review of Periodical Literature on Textile History Published in 1973’, Textile History, 6, no. 1 (1975), pp. 165–68; ‘A Review of Periodical Literature on Textile History Published in 1974’, Textile History, 7, no. 1 (1976), pp. 190–93; ‘A Review of Periodical Literature on Textile History Published in 1975–76’, Textile History, 8, no. 1 (1977), pp. 170–74.

9 Journal of Economic History, Economic History Review and Explorations in Economic History in 1972–75.

10 D. A. Farnie, ‘Three Historians of the Cotton Industry: Thomas Ellison, Gerhart von Schulze-Gaevernitz, and Sydney Chapman’, Textile History, 9 (1978), p. 75; S. J. Chapman, The Lancashire Cotton Industry (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1904); T. Ellison, The Cotton Trade of Great Britain (London: Effingham Wilson, 1886); G. von Schulze-Gaevernitz, The Cotton Trade in England and on the Continent (Manchester: Marsden and Co., 1895). Chapman, ed., The Cotton Industry (1999) also includes the three titles.

11 D. A. Farnie, The English Cotton Industry and the World Market 1815–1896 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).

12 D. T. Jenkins, ‘The Cotton Industry in Yorkshire 1780–1900’, Textile History, 10, no. 1 (1979), pp. 75–95; A. J. Cooke, ‘Richard Arkwright and the Scottish Cotton Industry’, Textile History, 10, no. 1 (1979), pp. 196–202; D. Coleman, ‘An Innovation and its Diffusion: The “New Draperies”’, Economic History Review, 22, no. 3 (1969), pp. 417–28.

13 P. Hudson, The West Riding Wool Textile Industry: A Catalogue of Business Records from the Sixteenth to the Twentieth Century (Edington, Wiltshire: Pasold Research Fund Ltd, 1975); D. T. Jenkins, The West Riding Wool Textile Industry 1770–1835: A Study of Fixed Capital Formation (Edington, Wiltshire: Pasold Research Fund Ltd, 1975).

14 P. Hudson, ‘From Manor to Mill: The West Riding in Transition’, in Manufacture in Town and Country before the Factory, ed. M. Berg, P. Hudson and M. Sonenscher (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 124–44.

15 B. Lemire, ‘Stanley Chapman: A Guiding Hand Over Two Decades. A Tribute to the Out-Going Editor of Textile History’, Textile History, 34, no. 1 (2003), pp. v–x.

16 Jenkins, ‘Textile History: 40 Years’; K. G. Ponting, A History of the West of England Cloth Industry (London: Macdonald, 1957); K. G. Ponting, The Wool Trade Past and Present (Manchester: Columbine Press, 1961); K. G. Ponting, The Woollen Industry of South-west England (Bath: Adams and Dart, 1971).

17 Coleman, ‘An Innovation and its Diffusion’; D. T. Jenkins and K. G. Pointing, The British Wool Textile Industry, 1770–1914 (London: Heinemann Educational Books for Pasold Research Fund, 1982).

18 Jenkins, ‘Textile History: 40 Years’.

19 E. Pasold, ‘In Search of William Lee’, Textile History, 5, no. 1 (1975), pp. 7–17; S. D. Chapman, ‘The Genesis of the British Hosiery Industry, 1600–1750’, Textile History, 3, no. 1 (1972), pp. 7–50; and S. D. Chapman, ‘Enterprise and Innovation in the British Hosiery Industry, 1750–1850’, Textile History, 4, no. 1 (1974), pp. 14–37; N. B. Harte, ‘The Growth and Decay of a Hosiery Firm in the Nineteenth Century’, Textile History, 8, no. 1 (1977), pp. 7–55.

20 J. Thirsk, ‘The Fantastical Folly of Fashion: The English Stocking Knitting Industry, 1500–1700’, in Harte and Ponting, Textile History and Economic History, pp. 50–73.

21 J. Thirsk, Economic Policy and Projects: The Development of a Consumer Society in Early Modern England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978).

22 D. Coleman, ‘Textile Growth’, in Harte and Ponting, Textile History and Economic History, pp. 1–21.

23 Jenkins, ‘Textile History: 40 Years’.

24 J. Zeitlin, ‘The Clothing Industry in Transition: International Trends and British Response’, Textile History, 19, no. 2 (1988), pp. 211–38; J. Zeitlin and C. Sabel, ‘Historical Alternatives to Mass Production: Politics, Markets and Technology in Nineteenth-Century Industrialization’, Past and Present, 108, no. 1 (1985), pp. 133–76.

25 S. D. Chapman and S. Chassagne, European Textile Printers in the Eighteenth Century: A Study of Peel and Oberkampf, Pasold Studies in Textile History, no. 1 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981).

26 J. Chaline, ‘The Cotton Manufacturer in Normandy and England During the Nineteenth Century’, Textile History, 17, no. 1 (1986), pp. 19–26; J. Schmitt, ‘Relations between England and the Mulhouse Textile Industry in the Nineteenth Century’, Textile History, 17, no. 1 (1986), pp. 27–37; K. Honeyman and J. Goodman, ‘Regional Integration and Specialization in the French Worsted Industry, 1810–1910’, Textile History, 17, no. 1 (1986), pp. 39–49; K. Honeyman and J. Goodman, Technology and Enterprise: Isaac Holden and the Mechanisation of Wool Combing in France, 1884–1914, Pasold Studies in Textile History, no. 6 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986).

27 J. Singleton, Lancashire on the Scrapheap: The Cotton Industry, 1945–1970, Pasold Studies in Textile History, no. 8 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991).

28 S. Toms, ‘The Profitability of the First Lancashire Merger: The Case of Horrocks, Crewdson & Co. Ltd, 1887–1905’, Textile History, 24, no. 2 (1993), pp. 129–46; D. Higgins, ‘Re-equipment as a Strategy for Survival in the Lancashire Spinning Industry, c. 1945–1960’, Textile History, 24, no. 2 (1993), pp. 211–34.

29 S. D. Chapman, ‘I & R Morley: Colossus of the Hosiery Trade’, Textile History, 28, no. 1 (1997), pp. 11–28; K. Honeyman, ‘Gender Divisions and Industrial Divide: The Case of the Leeds Clothing Trade’, Textile History, 28, no. 1 (1997), pp. 47–66.

30 K. Honeyman, Well Suited: A History of the Leeds Clothing Industry, 1850–1990, Pasold Studies in Textile History, no. 11 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000).

31 K. Honeyman, ‘Suits for the Boys: The Leeds Multiple Tailors and the Making of Boys’ Wear 1890–1940’, Textile History, 42, no. 1 (2011), pp. 50–68; S. D. Chapman, ‘Pasold Ltd., 1930–70: The Strategy of the Leading British Manufacturer of Children’s Wear’, Textile History, 42, no. 1 (2011), pp. 69–79.

32 S. D. Chapman, Hosiery and Knitwear: Four Centuries of Small Scale Industry in Britain c. 1589–2000 (2002).

33 S. D. Chapman, ed., The Cotton Industry: Its Growth and Impact, 1600–1935, 9 vols, World’s Major Industries (Bristol: Thoemmes, 1999); S. D. Chapman, ed., The Textile Industries, 4 vols, Tauris Industrial Histories (London: I.B. Tauris, 1997).

34 D. Farnie, The Fibre that Changed the World: The Cotton Industry in International Perspective, Pasold Studies in Textile History, no. 14 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004); M. B. Rose, ‘Douglas A. Farnie 1926–2008’, Textile History, 29, no. 2 (2008), pp. 250–52.

35 K. Honeyman, Child Workers in England 1780–1820: Parish Apprentices and the Making of the Early Industrial Labour Force (London: Routledge, 2007).

36 D. T. Jenkins, ‘Obituary: Professor Katrina Honeyman’, Textile History, 43, no. 1 (2012), pp. 3–4.

37 K. Jackson, ‘The Determinants of the Cotton Weaver’s Wage in Britain between the Wars: Principles, Criticisms, and Case Studies’, Textile History, 39, no. 1 (2008), pp. 45–69; L. Price, ‘Immigrants and Apprentices: Solutions to the Post-War Labour Shortage in the West Yorkshire Wool Textile Industry, 1945–1980’, Textile History, 45, no. 1 (2014), pp. 32–48; K. Sugden, ‘An Occupational Study to Track the Rise of Adult Male Mule Spinning in Lancashire and Cheshire, 1777–1813’, Textile History, 48, no. 2 (2017), pp. 160–75.

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Shinobu Majima

Shinobu Majima is Professor of Global Economic History at Gakushuin University, Tokyo. Since she completed her DPhil thesis on fashion and the twentieth-century consumer society at Oxford University, she has written widely on fashion, textiles and economy since the early seventeenth century. Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled, Fashion that Changed the World (in Japanese).