Rebecca Shawcross

Rebecca Shawcross has been the Senior Shoe Curator at Northampton Museums and Art Gallery since 1998. She is responsible for the Designated Shoe Collection, which includes collections management, exhibitions, research and enquiries, talks and advising other museums and the media. She has published various articles including ‘I Stand Corrected? New Perspectives on Orthopaedic Footwear,’ a research paper for the publication Rethinking Disability Representation in Museums & Galleries, and her book Shoes: An Illustrated History was published by Bloomsbury in 2014, with a revised and extended edition published October 2022.