Books By Don Chapman - Author

Don was born and educated in Oxford. In 1956 he became a graduate trainee with the Westminster Press. He spent most of his working life at the ‘Oxford Mail and Times’ as reporter, columnist, theatre critic, feature writer and arts editor. Since he retired he has written ‘Oxford Playhouse: High and low drama in a university city’, for which he gained a doctorate from Leicester University, and the widely acclaimed analysis of rational dress, ‘Wearing the Trousers: Fashion, Freedom and the Rise of the Modern Woman’. Don Chapman has lived for the last fifty-two years in Eynsham, seven miles upstream from where he spent the first two years of his life, overlooking the Thames at Folly Bridge.