In 1858, William Morris, a 24-year-old architectural draughtsman with some family money, bought an acre of land in what is now the south-east London suburb of Bexleyheath, then still rural Kent.

You can visit a 19th century house which was the former home of William Morris and is still studied by architects today.

William Morris was born on March 24, 1834, in Essex, northeast of London, into a wealthy family. From the age of 4, he devoured Walter Scott's medieval epics, disguised himself as a knight and ...

There’ll be a point on the epic journey it takes to get to Red House when it seems you’ve come to the wrong place or ... William Morris. ... Red House Lane Canterbury Crescent London DA6 8JF.

Rifling through the storeroom drawers at the William Morris Gallery in London, the institution’s director Hadrian Garrard pulls out a poster depicting a dachshund surrounded by a jumble of ...

His work is "the aesthetic of the museum shop", "the twee mail-order catalogue" and "the country-house tea room"; ... William Morris Gallery, London E17. Until 21 September. Subscribe to The Week.

Photographs of Kelmscott House, Morris’s Thameside home in Hammersmith, west London, show a 17th-century Safavid red-ground “Vase” carpet from Kerman in Iran rising up the dining room wall ...

Red House is a striking brick building that was the former home to William Morris and his wife. (Image: National Trust Images/Andrew Butler) With its striking appearance, many windows and ...