Charity Shop World: press, reviews and interviews
Coverage of Charity Shop World by Tansy E Hoskins in the BBC, The Guardian, the Independent and more. Reviews, interviews, podcasts.
Books Of The Month - The Independent
Books Not To Miss - The Bookseller
Featured in BBC Woman's Hour, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Evening Standard, Vogue, BBC World Service
Radio
- 🎧 BBC Woman's Hour with Clare McDonnell: The hidden world of charity shops
Woman's Hour - Sussex Maternity Review, Hidden world of charity shops, Remembering Gloria Steinem - BBC Sounds
Bereaved mothers discuss their poor maternity care and the importance of Sussex review.
- 🎧 BBC World Service: Inside the sorting room of a London charity shop. My segment starts at 42:40 in this episode. Listen on BBC
- BBC London Robert Elms Show: Interview with Gary Crowley (starts at 2:08)
- BBC Bristol: Interview with Claire Carter
- BBC News:
Where do your unwanted clothes end up after donating?
Journalist Tansy Hoskins has spent more than a decade investigating the fashion industry, from garment factories to global supply chains. She looks into where unwanted clothes end up, volunteering in a charity shop to reveal the hidden stories behind people's donations.
Reviews & interviews
- 'A starkly compelling investigation into what really happens to the bags-for-life we donate. It is a book which anyone who has ever bought clothes should read.' The Evening Standard: Absolutely Staggering: The real fate of clothing donations
- 'A humorous and passionate expose of a 'gigantic waste problem' that is blighting the world.' - The Independent: Books of the month
- 'Few writers could hold the scale of a global waste trade and the intimacy of a shop counter in the same sentence - Charity Shop World does it on every page.' - No Kill Magazine: The afterlife of our stuff
- The Guardian: ‘People sell their best stuff on Vinted’ – how charity shops became a dumping ground for unsellable clothes
- Islington Tribune: Clothes encounters of the second-hand kind
- Kind of Wild: What actually happens to the clothes you donate
- True Style: The Stuff
Articles by Tansy
- The Telegraph: While volunteers keep charity shops alive, a billionaire prince is profiting
- EcoAge: Working in a charity shop broke my wardrobe
- The Stylist: These are my top tips for finding gems this Secondhand September [paywall]
- The New World: How charity shops became a bin for fashionistas [paywall]
- Vogue Business: How to fix charity retail [paywall]
Podcasts
Book Club #8: Meg Pirie In Conversation with Tansy Hoskins On Charity Shop World
Missed the live event? Catch up on what we talked about, from clothing waste to secondhand policy.
Fashion Roundtable and Tansy Hoskins and Meg Pirie
Garmology: The Secret Life of Charity Shops with Tansy E. Hoskins (#174) - Well Dressed Dad - It is a proper menswear blog. Like, with original words and opinions and suchlike.
In this episode of Garmology, Nick is joined by investigative journalist and author Tansy Hoskins to discuss her fascinating new book, Charity Shop World. What begins as a conversation about Britain’s beloved charity shops quickly becomes a deep exploration of clothing consumption, waste, fast fashion, global trade, community, charity, and the hidden journeys our unwanted clothes take after we drop…
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