Academic Dress

The Special Correspondent sent me some information about the journal of the Burgon Society which is now available online. He writes as follows:

The Burgon Society has put many of its journals online, and they’re an excellent resource. Here’s a list of articles I’ve read that I think will interest you as well:

http://www.burgon.org.uk/society/library/trans/index.php

Who may wear the 'Literate's Hood'? Nicholas Groves

Oxford Blues: The Search for the Origins of the Lay Bachelors' Hood. Bruce Christianson

The Regulation of Undergraduate Dress at Oxford and Cambridge, 1660-1832. William Gibson

In the Pink: The Strange Case of Trinity College Dublin. Bruce Christianson

Academic Dress in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. William Gibson

Lambeth Degree Academic Dress. Noel Cox

Doctors' Greens. Bruce Christianson
Masters of Grammar: A Forgotten Degree. Nicholas Groves

Lambeth Academic Dress and the University of London. Graham Zellick

Togas gradui et facultati competentes: The Creation of New Doctoral Robes at Oxford, 1895-1920. Alan J. Ross

A Purple Passion? Queen's College Oxford and the Blood of the Lord. Bruce Christianson

No doubt many other articles will be of interest to you as well.

He followed this up with an additional link to an interesting article from 2010 by William Gibson on how Walter Pope of Wadham remembered helping to save academic dress in Oxford from being abolished by a Puritan Vice-Chacellor in 1658, and which can be read at the link:
http://www.burgon.org.uk/society/library/trans/tbs10_02_abolition.pdf