Hilary Davidson is available as a guest and for presenting on television, radio, podcasts and for popular journalism. She is a confident and engaging public speaker.
Press
Fashion Forward: Dress in the Age of Jane Austen, Perspectives on History, American Historical Association, 30 September 2019
Fashion in Jane Austen's time, interview with Jonathan Green, Blueprint for Living, ABC Radio National, 19 October 2019
Austen’s no fashion plain Jane, Matthew Westwood, The Australian, 22 October 2019
Broadcasting
Fashion history expert, The Great British Sewing Bee, BBC Two (Love Productions, 2014)
Costume expert, Pride & Prejudice: Having A Ball, BBC Two, (Optomen TV, 9 May 2013)
Expert on Harlots, Housewives and Heroines: A 17th Century History For Girls, BBC Four, 2012
Expert on Jane Austen: The Unseen Portrait?, BBC Two (Seneca Productions, 26 December 2011)
Costumed Supervisor, Pride & Prejudice, Working Title Films/National Trust, 2005
Hilary Davidson on IMDB
Journalism
‘Jane Austen’s Wardrobe by Hilary Davidson – 50 years in 50 books’, Yale University Press Blog, 18 July 2023
‘Costume in the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice’, Jane Austen’s House Museum online exhibition The Making of Pride and Prejudice’, 31 March 2023- 31 March 2024, 2 June 2023
‘The Yellow Dress Project: New Life for an Old Gown’, National Trust Magazine, Sydney, Australia, 2023
‘From the Archive: Windows into a World’, National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) magazine, issue 35, June-July 2022, pp. 20-24
‘Bridgerton Keeps Perpetuating One of Hollywood’s Most Stubborn Myths’, Slate, 24 March 2022
‘The Fashion of Jane Austen’s Novels’, The Millions, 23 January 2020
‘Regency Fashions Revealed’, Jane Austen’s Regency World, Mar/April 2020,
‘Tight Breeches and Loose Gowns: Going Deep on the Fashion of Jane Austen: Hilary Davidson Takes Us Through Regency Style’, Literary Hub, 10 December 2019
‘The Fashions of Jane Austen’s Novels’, PW Tip Sheet, Publishers Weekly, 1 November 2019
‘A Jane Austen Christmas’, Yale Books blog, 11 December 2019
‘Pelisse please’, Jane Austen’s Regency World, Jan/Feb 2017, pp. 36-40
‘Rise of an Empire: How the Little White Dress Changed Fashion’, sisterMAG, 31-1, September 2017, pp. 25-31
‘The Unknown Lady’s Account Book; or, Mrs. Topham’s Treasure, Being a Tale of Historical Deduction, True in All Particulars’, The Female Spectator, Chawton House Library, June 2015, pp 5-8.
‘Fantasy, fetish and the red shoe’, The Financial Times Life & Arts, 5 June 2015
‘Medieval bras uncover the fascinating history of women's daily support needs’, Guardian Online, 20 July 2012
‘The Red Shoes’, Umělec, Issue 1, June 2011, 52-56. (English, Czech, German editions)
Podcast Guest
The Thing About Austen, Episode 65: The Thing About Muslin, 12 December 2023
The Rest is History, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook Episode 238: The Regency Revolution, 28 September 2022
Film Club with Caspar, Episode 17. Nosferatu the Vampyre, 14 February 2021
What Would Danbury Do? Episode 24.5 The Costumes of Bridgerton (Bonus Ep), 21 March 2021
The London History Podcast, Episode 49 - Myths of Regency Dress, 2 April 2021,