Handbags: the making of a museum

Foreword / Kenny Park

Preface / Judith Clark

A history of containment / Claire Wilcox

Beginning with bags / Adam Phillips

The collection

The making of a museum of handbags / Judith Clark

The evolution of pose / Caroline Evans

The uniform on the street: the fashionable handbag in 1912 / Amy de la Haye

Specimens

A terminology pertaining to handbags / Amy de la Haye

The collection overview

Notes to the text

Acknowledgements

Contributors.