Welcome to the William Morris Society UK
Peter Preston
It is with great sadness that we inform members of the death of Peter Preston, Vice-Chair and immediate past Chair of the William Morris Society, who died on 18 October of pancreatic cancer, aged 67. Peter was a long-standing, active and much loved member of the Society, and will be sorely missed. He joined the Society in 1983. He was not someone who was temperamentally inclined to be a passive member of any organisation he believed in, and very quickly became a member of the Committee. Morris wrote that in the new society he foresaw it would be necessary for every citizen to feel himself responsible for its details, and be interested in them. Peter’s attitude prefigured that new condition.Read More
Major new online resource:
The elements of drawing: John Ruskin’s teaching collection at Oxford.
The Ashmolean Museum and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art have launched a major new online resource. With the support of the Arts and Humanities Research Council, Ruskin’s extensive collections of drawings, manuscripts and photographs kept at the Ashmolean have been digitised.
Find out MoreThe William Morris Society is a charitable organisation whose aim is to promote the life and work of William Morris, one of the most outstanding figures of the nineteenth century whose influence and ideas remain as important today as they were in his own lifetime.
You can find out everything you need to know about the work of the Society on this website, including:
- How to become a member of the William Morris Society;
- Visiting Kelmscott House, using our library and viewing our collection;
- Our education programme for schools, colleges and universities;
- Forthcoming Society events and trips;
- Society publications, Journal, and merchandise.
If you would like any more information about the Society in general, or a particular aspect of our work, you can contact us via the addresses on the Contacts page.
For more information about the life, art, writings and socialism of William Morris, the online archive of the Journal of William Morris Studies, and William Morris Society events in the USA, Canada and elsewhere, please visit the website of the William Morris Society of the United States at www.morrissociety.org and the William Morris Society of Canada at www.wmsc.ca
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Events Programme for 2012 coming soon!
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Latest News
Winter Journal now available. The Winter 2011 number of the Journal (Volume XIX No. 3) is now available. This is a special issue on the theme ‘Morris the Green’, which examines the ‘greener’ aspects of Morris’s ideas. There are also articles on a newly-discovered image of William Morris, on the history of the Journal, and the latest installment of the William Morris Annotated Bibliography. Read More
Video of the launch of William Morris in the Twenty-First Century now available on the events archive page.
The William Morris Society is now offering a Citizenship programme for Key Stage 2 and 3 school visitors. See the citizenship page for more information.