About Deborah Jaffé

Deborah Jaffé studied art and design at Dartington College of Arts and the London College of Furniture before gaining her MA from the Royal College of Art. Her varied career has included work in the toy, educational and fashion industries, the visual arts and photography as well as research as a design historian. Photographing city architecture and the detritus of urban life are a continuing fascination and her photomontages, using images she has photographed, have appeared on the front covers of The Lancet and the British Dental Journal.

Deborah is the author of eight books including What's Left of Henry VIII, Victoria - a celebration, Ingenious Women and The History of Toys. Her interest in the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the transition of British society from an artisan to an industrial economy has led to numerous research projects. Following the publication of Ingenious Women in 2003 she became a patron of ideas21, and frequently speaks in Britain and Europe on women and innovation.

Deborah is on the executive comittee of the Plastics Historical Society and a member of the comittee of the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green.

Deborah has been appointed editor of the Plastiquarian, the journal of the Plastics Historical Society.


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