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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan

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Prof Emerita of Design History & public historian FRHistSoc📙Ideal Homes ✍️ history of the kitchen 📺📻rep by Knight Ayton bio.site/deborahsuggryan

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Bye bye Academia.edu I’ve left because I can’t agree to the new terms & conditions

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Delighted to attend the opening of the Kingston Glamour exhibition last night with my PhD student Tara McKinney Marinus who curated the Betty Joel section

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

On #VEDay80 remembering my grandparents Welshman Rob & Londoner Nora & all who gave service. On VEDay Grandad, who served as an armourer in the RAF, was still away & Nanny was living in London with her family & was heavily pregnant with her first child.

A young couple in World War 2 RAF & WAAF uniform

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A few photos from the Betty Joel exhibition accompanying Clive Stewart-Lockhart’s book launch at Olympia Auctions yesterday, closes tomorrow. This is a taster of a much bigger exhibition that will be curated by my PhD student Tara McKinney Marinus for Portsmouth City Museum & Art Gallery in 2027

Poster for Betty Joel exhibition showing a photo of Betty standing beside a Cheval mirror

Portrait of designer Betty Joel in the 1920s depicting her with her auburn hair in a shingled bob, wearing a yellow embroidered jacket. Underneath is one of her asymmetric bookcases.

A life-size photo of Betty Joel in the early 1920s with a long fringed shawl draped around her shoulders beside her full-length mirror with integrated lamps with glass flame shades

Desk and chair designed by Betty Joel with photos depicting some of her interiors above

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Absolutely thrilled to bits to receive a copy of Clive Stewart-Lockhart’s lavishly illustrated book on designer Betty Joel, his great aunt. There will be an exhibition on Joel at Portsmouth City Museum in 2027, curated by my PhD student Tara McKinney Marinus #WomenInDesign #WomenDesigners

The front cover of a book on Betty Joel depicting her standing in front of a chevalier mirror

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. May you be as relaxed as Tenzing the Tibetan Spaniel #DogsOfBluesky

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

I’ve been enjoying the musicals shown on BBC2 this week. Why is Brigadoon never on tv? It doesn’t seem to be available to stream either. And how about a stage revival? #musicals

The poster for the film musical Brigadoon featuring Cyd Charisse in a red dress in the arms of Gene Kelly against a red and black tartan background

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Watching Britain’s Nuclear Bomb Scandal: Our Story - in memory of my Great Uncle Ron Lacey (b. 1920), a nuclear veteran who had a painful death from bone cancer in 1982. His widow, my Great Aunt Eileen, fought for justice all her life. Too late for justice for them now www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Excited to be at Chichester Festival Theatre to see Here You Come Again. And, yes, I’m wearing vintage Western wear & have big hair!

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Off to New Broadcasting House to talk about cosinesss on tonight’s Free Thinking on BBC Radio 4. Wearing my favourite knitwear with Staffordshire Spaniel cardigan clips

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

It’s slightly disconcerting to see fashions of your youth in a museum display! I really enjoyed visiting Outlaws: Fashion Renegades of 80s London at the Fashion & Textile Museum. So many memories of places I went & things I wore, especially Hyper Hyper & Kinky Gerlinky #FashionHistory #80sFashion

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Prof Deborah Sugg Ryan @deborahsuggryan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

A wonderful exhibition of Sue Clowes’ textiles & fashion from Mikey Bean’s collection, curated by Dr Shaun Cole, at Winchester School of Art

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