About

Deborah Jaffé is a cultural historian with a special interest in design, technology and memory studies; particularly relating to women and innovation, childhood and play, industrial design and souvenirs. She is the author of eight books including: Ingenious Women, The History of Toys, What’s Left of Henry VIII,  and Victoria – a celebration and the co-editor, with Dr Stephen Wilson of Memories of the Future: on countervision.

Deborah 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 includes work in the toy, educational and fashion industries; the visual arts; design history; and Holocaust related archives.  She has been a member of  numerous committees including: the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood at Bethnal Green;  the National Art & Design Saturday Club at The Sorrell Foundation and the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory at the University of London. Deborah is experienced in the media and has appeared on national and international tv and radio. She edited 40 issues of  Newcomen Links for the Newcomen Society for the history of engineering before stepping down in 2021. Her current work concentrates on the Biography of an Archive of Holocaust related material, and her ceramics

Ingenious Women, HB. Sutton
Victori HB. Carlton 2001
The Histry of Toys HB. Sutton 2006
Make a Book. Frances Lincoln
Masks. Quintet
Masks to Make and Decorate Frances
Masks to Make and Decoirate, French Edititon, Flammarion
What’s Left of Henry VIII
Niezwykle Kobiety
Ingenious Women Polish Edition
Geniale Frauen
Ingenious Women German Edition

 

 

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.