Pasold Research Fund

The Pasold Fund promotes and supports research on textile history, broadly defined, including the history of dress and the history of fashion.

It does this by giving financial assistance to researchers, by organising and supporting conferences and workshops and by publishing a monograph series and a major journal, Textile History.

The Fund is a registered charity and a company limited by guarantee.

The Pasold Research Fund was established in 1964 by Eric W. Pasold OBE, whose special interest was the history of knitting. Its work was developed and extended by Kenneth G. Ponting as Research Director from 1967 to 1983, and by his successors, Negley B. Harte (Director from 1983 to 1997), Mary B. Rose (Director from 1997 to 2006), Pat Hudson (Director from 2006 to 2010).

The Fund is currently directed by Dr Bethan Bide, University of York