Victoria Haddock

Project Assistant Curator

About

Victoria is a dress historian and is the assistant curator of the Royal Ceremonial Dress Collection. Her research interests include image-making through royal and political fashion, 20th century couture, and costume for performance. She has presented at numerous academic conferences and has been a guest lecturer for ICON (the Institute of Conservation) and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.

Victoria holds an MA in the History of Design and Material Culture from the University of Brighton, where she now lectures on the Staging and Screening Fashion and Design module. As of 2025, she is a Trustee of the Costume Society and the Secretary of DATS – the Dress and Textile Specialists.

Select publications

Haddock, V., The Life of Eva Perón: First Lady, Activist, Actress and Philanthropist (Barnsley: Pen and Sword Books, 2025).
 
Haddock, V., ‘The United States of Fashion: A New Atlas of American Style’, The Journal of Dress History, 6:2 (2022), 134-137.

Haddock, V., ‘Glamour: The Influence of Vivien Leigh’s Film Costumes on Dressmaking Patterns of the 1930s and 1940s’, IAMHIST Blog, 2020.