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The bulk of this website was created in 1997. It was never meant to be a scholarly resource nor an academic study, but was aimed for general consumption of anyone with an interest in late 17th century clothing. Do bear in mind that at the time when the pages were written - 1997 and earlier - the author's English language skills were not bilingual yet. The main content of the website will not be updated nor changed, but remain available on the web, with the occasional addition of pages, though. About the author Nicole gives public talks (at an assortment of venues, such as the Costume Society of Scotland and local Embroidery Guild charters) and lectures (such as for Heriot-Watt University's School of Textiles) on topics of 17th century clothing and customs. She is available as a public speaker. As for her background, Nicole Cargill-Kipar obtained her Magistra Artium (M.A.) degree from the Faculty of Arts and Humanities in English Historical Linguistics, English Literature and Political Economics at RWTH Aachen (Aachen University of Technology, Germany) in 1995. She started teaching as a postgraduate assistant in the English Literature Department at Aachen University and moved on to manage Aachen University of Technology's Interdisciplinary IT Forum for four years, followed by three years experience as Quality Manager in the private sector both in Germany and the UK. Nicole moved to the UK in 2000 and was the Learning Technologist and VLE Co-ordinator (focusing on pedagogy) for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at Canterbury Christ Church University, occasionally teaching her old-time favourite subject Old English and Anglo-Saxon studies. Nicole has been working at Heriot-Watt University since early 2006 as the Flexible Leaning Co-ordinator. She runs a Flexible Learning Programme which is built upon current Learning and Teaching Theory and Practice, combining a scholarly approach to Flexible Learning with the practical exploration of learning and teaching opportunities. She is also the module leader for a module on "Designing Online Learning Environments" which explores flexible learning. Her professional research interests are social networking and web 2.0 technologies and their impact on student learning and teaching across the University sector, as well as "Generation C" and what this means for our student generation. She is currently working on two projects, one internal (MACS) about using Second Life to teach multimedia programming and creativity, and another external (with Napier and Edinburgh Universities). She is also doing work on the semiotics of online text compared with printed material and the impact of the volatile medium of the internet on learning and teaching in Higher Education.
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