Dr Matt Lodder will take us through the history of tattooing, gleaning unique insights into forgotten areas of human history and visual culture.

Matt will reveal how tastes and technologies have affected the type of images being tattooed; how innovations in both style and method came about and how tattooing has always been a permanent  fixture of the visual culture of Britain’s entire social spectrum – popular amongst sailors, socialites, mummies and kings.

‘Tattoos are an expression of individualism, but they also illuminate the cultural environment in which they are created.’ Shahidha Bari, Literary Review