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Hadrian Garrard, the curator of Morris Mania – an innovative exhibition now showing at the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, east London – tells the story of being in King’s Cross Station and ...

The designer, artist, author and all-round polymath William Morris (1834-1896) championed the democratisation of good taste, said Nancy Durrant in The Times. An "ardent socialist", he famously ...

Nearly 130 years after his death, the British artist William Morris’ designs are everywhere, from wallpapers and dinnerware to phone cases and hand cream. The ubiquity of Morris’ intricate ...

Poet, social reformer, writer, publisher, and above all artist and designer. There is little William Morris couldn’t or didn’t do, so much so that, in 1896, as he lay dying at the age of 62, a doctor ...

‘Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful’, advised the influential British designer William Morris (1834-1896), known not only for his signature floral ...

The designs of William Morris have become hugely popular over 150 years. But, as Deborah Nicholls-Lee reveals, it could all have been so different: the artist’s original ambition was to open a ...

There's one historical artefact that tells us exactly why William the Conqueror thought he should be King of England. It's over 230 feet long and over 900 years old. Its the Bayeux Tapestry.

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In 1858, William Morris, a 24-year-old architectural draughtsman with some family money, bought an acre of land ...

Located in Walthamstow this design trail is inspired by William Morris’s statement ‘art made by the people and for the people’, and will focus on the themes of craft, unity, simplicity and ...

Kelmscott Press may have only operated for seven years at the end of the 19th century, but its legacy as a high-water mark in British printing endures. It was a late career passion project from ...

For her - as for Morris - it is "lovely still", and holds "the gathered crumbs of happiness of the confused and turbulent past". Come the revolution By that time, Morris’s life had taken a ...