Angela gained her first degree in History from the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, a P.G.C.E. from the University of Leicester and, after a period in secondary and tertiary history teaching, she gained her PHD from the University of Warwick in 2005. She held an Early Career Fellowship at Oxford Brookes University from 2005-2006. She has been an Associate Fellow of the History Department, University of Warwick since 2005. Angela has lectured in English and European early modern history at Northampton, Leicester and Warwick Universities, and from 2004-5 on the RCA/V&A course. She joined the Research Department of the V&A and the V&A/RCA course team as a permanent member of staff in December 2006. Major collaborative research projects that draw directly upon the large collections at the V&A include an ESRC funded network project with social and cultural historian Dr Phil Withington (Cambridge University), on Intoxicants and Intoxication in Historical and Cultural Context (2008-2010) and with Phil Withington and Beat Kumin (Warwick) a European Science Fund project on ‘The Historical Formation of European Drinking Cultures’. In addition, she is preparing a project on 'Bed and Bord' with family and gender historian, Joanne Bailey (Oxford Brookes University), cultural historian of medicine, Sasha Handley (Northumbria University) and textiles curator Sue Prichard. Angela is currently working as part of the curatorial team refurbishing the V&A's Europe 1600-1800 Galleries, contributing a chapter to the Princely Treasures tour book; she was also involved in the recent V&A QUILTS exhibition, contributing an essay to the catalogue, and to the temporary ART OF DRINKING display and accompanying book. She peer reviews for Textile History and Journal of Design History. In January 2011 she will spend a month at the Yale Centre for British Art as the V&A/Yale exchange fellow working on ‘The Historical Formation of Drinking Cultures’ project.