Welcome to the William Morris Society UK
May Morris 150th Anniversary Celebration
May Morris Embroidery Exhibition at Kelmscott House
On 25th March 1862 Mary (May) Morris was born at Red House, Bexleyheath. In celebration of her anniversary, the Society is exhibiting highlights from its collection of embroideries and embroidery designs. It will also be the first time that two of our more recent donations, Minstrel with Cymbals and Westward Ho, will have been displayed in the Coach House at Kelmscott House.
Issue of a May Morris Royal Mail Stamp
On 23rd February 2012 the Royal Mail issued the Britons of Distinction stamp set featuring our very own May Morris embroidery.
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The 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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Upcoming Events
Saturday May 4th at 2.15pm. The Utopian imagination: Aldous Huxley’s Island 50 years on. ‘How we might live’ is one of Morris’s great topics. Aldous Huxley also explores the issue in his fine utopia Island (1962). To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the book, Ruth Levitas and Tony Pinkney have organized an afternoon of talks, reading and discussion on and around Huxley’s utopia.
Saturday May 19th at 2.15pm. William Morris Society’s 57th Annual General Meeting. This year’s meeting will take place at Mansfield College, Oxford. The meeting will be followed by a talk by Tony Pinkney on Morris and Oxford. Admission free.
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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.
