Media

Deborah’s extensive knowledge of childhood, play and toys as well as women and innovation leads to many media appearances including:

2011 and BBCtv The Toys that Made Christmas

2017 Channel 5 The Story of Lego

2018 Channel 5 The History of Hamleys

2020 Channel 4 Britain’s Best Selling Toys (Tern TV)

Various interviews in the press and on BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour, World Service and Local Radio on her books Ingenious Women and the History of Toys.

Deborah Jaffé is an author; cultural and design historian; ceramicist and painter with special interests in the history of souvenirs and memory studies; women and innovation; childhood, play and toys.