Jude Swann MBE, Yarwood Grant Winner 2001

The first Yarwood Award was made to Jude Swann MBE in 2001, a former Chair of the Costume Society (1980-87) who was working on a dictionary of shoe and shoemaking terms. The dictionary contained over 760 terms, each one broadly defined with dated evidence and changes in use over time. This project was first compiled on Amstrad 8000 and needed to be transferred to Word 97 which our grant enabled.