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Acknowledgements

Eight of the ten excavations which produced the shoes described in this volume were financed by the Department of the Environment (whose responsibility has recently been transferred to the Historie Buildings and Monuments Commission), as was nearly all the post-excavation analysis. The excavations at Swan Lane and Ludgate Hill were generously sponsored by Edger Investments Limited and the Norwich Union Insurance Group respectively. Additional grants were received from the Corporation of the City of London and the Manpower Services Commission (Billingsgate), and from the Museum of London Trust Fund and the City of London Archaeological Trust (Swan Lane and Billingsgate). Individual thanks are due to Jane Cowgill, Penny MacConnoran and Quita Mould for carrying out much of the initial record-ing; to Helen Ganiaris, Rosę Johnson, Suzanne Keene and Katharine Starling of the Museum’s Conservation Laboratory; to Alan Eddy (British

Museum, Natural History), Glynis Edwards (Ancient Monuments Laboratory) and Rowena Gale for providing specialist reports on the moss stuffing, leather and wood; to Neil MacDonald (C. & J. Clark Ltd.) and Claire Symonds (Shoe and Allied Trades Research Association) for informa-tion about modern shoes; to Dominiąue Vaughan and Friedericke Hammer for providing summaries in French and German respectively; to Jon Bailey, Trevor Hurst and Jan Scrivener of the Museum’s Photographic Department; to John Cherry, John Clark, Tony Dyson, Geoff Egan, Olaf Goubitz, Arthur MacGregor, Michael Rhodes, Frances Pritchard, Erik Schia, Brian Spencer, June Swann, Roy Thompson, Alan Vince and Willy Groenman-van Waateringe for making many improvements and contributions to the text; and, finally, to Fred Stubbs and the staff of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office for skilfully turning the manuscripts into print.

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