New book examines role of textiles in humanitarian projects

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The University of Huddersfield’s Dr Claire Barber and Dr Rebecca Gill have collaborated on a new book that explores the role of textiles and crafts in humanitarian projects, a story that has deep links with Huddersfield’s own textile history.  

Humanitarian Handicraft: History, materiality and trade 1840-1980 (Manchester University Press), co-edited with Dr Helen Dampier and Professor Bertrand Taithe from Leeds Beckett and Manchester universities respectively, looks at how handicrafts have been used to tackle social and economic challenges from the nineteenth century to the present.