Lucy Adlington

Lucy J. Adlington (born 1970 She has a bachelor's degree from Clare College, Cambridge. She has a master's in medieval studies from the University of York. She researched women's lives and their clothes from the Second World War in detail.

Clothing collection Adlington is the founder of History Wardrobe, a company that specializes in historical costumes. She has appeared on BBC Radio's Woman's Hour to discuss the history of underwear.

Books Through her writing, Adlington examines women's lives and the importance of clothing. Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear (2015) examines the evolution of clothing. Women's Lives and Clothes in WW2: Ready for Action is credited with filling "a gap in the scholarship on women's clothing and service during the war". In it, Adlington focuses on the women who wore the clothing and their experiences, and emphasizes the similarities between nationalities. After Adlington published a fictional account, The Red Ribbon (2017), descendants of some of the dressmakers contacted her with more information about the women who had worked in the camp. The Dressmakers of Auschwitz has been translated into 22 languages and recorded on The New York Times Best Seller list.

Adlington has written several young adult novels, including The Red Ribbon (2017), a fictional story about a woman named Ella who was a seamstress in a concentration camp during the Holocaust in the Second World War. The book was shortlisted for a "Young Quills Award" in the 14 to young adult category in 2018. Her work has earned recognition through nominations and shortlistings for awards including the Carnegie Medal, Manchester Book Prize, Leeds Book Prize, and Rotherham Book Award, for her books The Diary of Pelly-D and Burning Mountain. Stitches in Time: The Story of the Clothes We Wear (2015, ) The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive (2021)

Young adult fiction The Diary of Pelly D (2005) Night Witches (2013, ) The Red Ribbon (2017) Summerland (2019)