John Styles

How Yorkshire’s Yellow Trade of coin clippers and counterfeiters changed Britain’s economy in the 18th century.

John Styles considers whether the fashion for wearing pocket-watches flourished among working men in the eighteenth century because it was stylish, because they needed to know the time accurately, or for some other reason.

John Styles marks the opening of the new British Galleries at the V&A with a look at influences and innovations during a dynamic period of design history.