Jane is one of the founder members of the group and has been dancing since 1989. In addition to her interest in historical dance Jane is widely read in Tudor and Jacobean social history and has a keen interest in historical clothing. She has published research in Costume magazine and has written a number of booklets designed to make the latest research on the clothes of ordinary people in the past available to the re-enactment community. Jane is a professional tailor specialising in high quality historical reproductions for museums, historical interpreters, musicians and dancers. She made many of the outfits in the photographs on this web site.

Jane also works as a costumed guide lecturer at Hampton Court Palace and as a costumed interpreter at Milestones museum.
Jane’s publications to date are:

• Rural Costume in Elizabethan Essex: A study based on the evidence from wills, Costume number 33, 1999.
• The Mirror of Health, Food, Diet and Medical Theory 1450 - 1660, Stuart Press, 1995.
• Lust 1450 - 1660: How to provoke it, restrain it and deal with the consequences, Stuart Press, 1995.
• The Book of Children and Child Rearing 1480 - 1680. Part 1 Birth to age 7, Stuart Press, 1996.
• The Book of Children and Child Rearing 1480 - 1680. Part 2 Birth to 7 - 14, Stuart Press, 1996.
• The Shaking of the Sheets: Death 1350 - 1660, Stuart Press, 1997
• Did they wash in those days ? Personal Hygiene, cleanliness and washing in the 14th - 17th centuries, Stuart Press, 2000.
• Clothes of the Common Woman 1580 - 1660, Part 2: Making the Garments, Stuart Press, 2000.
• Clothes of the Common Woman 1480 - 1580, Part 2: Making the Garments, Stuart Press, 2005.
• Clothes of the Common Man 1580 - 1660, Part 2: Making the Garments, Stuart Press, 2002.
• Clothes of the Common Man 1480 - 1580, Part 2: Making the Garments, Stuart Press, 2005.
• Children's Clothes 1580 - 1660, Stuart Press, 2006.
• Children's Clothes 1480 - 1580, Stuart Press, 2007.
• Headwear, Footwear & Trimmings 1480 - 1580, Stuart Press 2008.
• Early Seventeenth Century Prices and Wages, Stuart Press 1992 (With Stuart Peachey and Robert Huggett)
• Textiles and Materials for the Common Man and Woman 1580 - 1660, Stuart Press, 2001. (With Stuart Peachey and Ruth Gilbert)

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