June Marion Swann MBE (born 1929) is a British footwear historian, formerly the Keeper of the Boot and Shoe Collection at the Northampton Museum and Art Gallery in England, where she worked for 38 years from 1950 to 1988. In the late 1950s she inaugurated the study of shoes hidden in buildings as charms. Swann has been called "the world's leading authority on historic shoes." She is engaged by museums around the world to identify shoes in their collections.
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1929 (age 96)
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