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William Morris

January 2024

  • for Linda Parry obituary The Forest tapestry, wool, silk and cotton, designed by William Morris, Philip Webb and John Henry Dearle, woven by William Knight, John Martin and William Sleath, 1887. Purchased with Art Fund support.

    Linda Parry obituary

    Museum curator and expert on the textiles of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement

December 2023

  • Phillip Leigh, the Lord of Walthamstow, whose title dates back, possibly, to pre-Norman times.

    No manor, but a peerless investment: Lord of Walthamstow is auctioning his title for £65,000

    The retiring east London lord of the manor bought his feudal title in 1989 and says it once saved him from sharing a bed with a golfing buddy

November 2023

  • The Irish novelist Paul Lynch, who won this year’s Booker prize for his dystopian novel Prophet Song.

    The Guardian view on utopias: news from nowhere can help us here and now

    Editorial: The Booker prize has gone to a dystopian vision of a totalitarian Ireland. But imagined futures needn’t always be bleak

July 2023

  • Models standing, wearing Walthamstow home and away kits

    East London football club releases William Morris-inspired kit

    Walthamstow FC delves into area’s Arts and Crafts history with kits sporting 1890s Morris & Co design

June 2022

  • Jane Morris in Blue Silk Dress with flowers

    Unfaithful, too striking... why William Morris’s wife was painted out of the Arts and Crafts movement

    Jane Morris’s creative influence on her husband’s design empire has finally been revealed in a new book

March 2022

  • View of Kelmscott Manor

    William Morris’s ‘heaven on earth’ Oxfordshire home restored to former glory

  • Heritage Lottery Fund grants<br>Embargoed to 0001 Friday August 12 Undated handout photo issued by Heritage Lottery Fund of the home of designer William Morris, Kelmscott Manor, West Oxfordshire, one of a dozen projects and places receiving a share of the latest funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF). PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Issue date: Friday August 12, 2016. Kelmscott Manor, a place whose historic and natural environment inspired many of of his works, is receiving £4.7 million to help double opening days and visitor numbers.See PA story HERITAGE Funding. Photo credit should read: Heritage Lottery Fund/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    The Guardian view on William Morris: a man for all seasons

August 2021

  • Brenda King was passionate about textiles and chaired the Textile Society for a decade

    Other lives
    Brenda King obituary

    Other lives: Textile historian, author and inspirational chair of the Textile Society

September 2020

  • The circular pool below the weir at Buscot Lock with its surrounding willows.

    Country diary
    Country diary: you might not want these willow boughs on your wall

    Buscot, Oxfordshire: There’s nothing twee about these trees, though they inspired a William Morris wallpaper design
  • Old open envelope

    Brief letters
    Wrapped up in sustainability

    Brief letters: Dyscalculia | The probation service | Sustainable wrappers | Art and design
  • William Morris

    The Guardian view on good style: it makes life better

    Editorial: Design is all around us – let it be beautiful and feed our soul

May 2020

  • Volunteers from a mutual aid group in Islington, north London, preparing food parcels for members of their community

    Building a better world through mutual aid

    Letters: Readers respond to Rebecca Solnit’s long read on the spirit of solidarity and cooperation that has arisen from the coronavirus crisis

April 2020

  • Rachel Cooke

    Notebook
    An imaginary walk, Tennyson's great escape and the joy of small things

    Rachel Cooke

February 2020

  • David Rainger, the former chair of the William Morris Society, enjoyed pottery, bookbinding, stained glass and politics

    Other lives
    David Rainger obituary

  • Peter Blake<br>English pop artist Peter Blake, 17th June 1963. (Photo by Tony Evans/Getty Images)

    Sex, guns and pop art: the forgotten pioneers who shook up British culture

January 2020

  • Naomi and Her Daughters, 2013.

    Observer Design
    Kehinde Wiley: ‘I took the DNA of William Morris and created hybrids’

    Best known for his portrait of Barack Obama, the artist’s first solo London show is inspired by a tale of insanity and the women of Dalston

September 2019

  • A waterfall in Gillfield Wood.

    Country diary
    Country diary: the stream's lazy crawl is deceptive

    Gillfield Wood, South Yorkshire: After heavy rain, the Totley Brook has teeth, and the threat of flooding is ever-present

July 2019

  • William Morris.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Apology by William Morris

  • St Fagans National Museum of History

    Revamped St Fagans in Wales is 2019 Art Fund museum of the year

June 2019

  • Stunning Skies above the river Thames at Gravesend.<br>River Thames PX75FW Stunning Skies above the river Thames at Gravesend.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about the River Thames

    From bucolic source to marshy lower reaches, London’s mighty river has inspired great writing
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