Join us for an online conversation about the new book Critical Histories of the Arts and Crafts Movement (Manchester University Press, October 2026), edited by Thomas Cooper and Imogen Hart.
Friday, October 23, at 12:00 noon Eastern Time (9:00 am Pacific Time/11:00 am Central Time/5:00 pm BST) on Zoom. Join via this link.
Imogen Hart is a Lecturer in the History of Art at Oxford Brookes University and President of the William Morris Society in the United States. Previously she has worked as a Postdoctoral Associate and an Assistant Curator at the Yale Center for British Art and taught in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley. Her publications include Arts and Crafts Objects (Manchester University Press, 2010) and Rethinking the Interior, c. 1867–1896: Aestheticism and Arts and Crafts (Ashgate, 2010), co-edited with Jason Edwards.
Thomas Cooper is a Junior Research Fellow in Material Culture at Lincoln College, University of Oxford. Previously, he was an Associate Lecturer in Art History at Aberystwyth University. In 2022, he held the Dunlap Memorial Fellowship, awarded by the William Morris Society in the United States, and in 2014 he earned his PhD in History of Art from the University of Cambridge. Currently, he is writing a critical biography of May Morris, the leading woman of the Arts and Crafts movement, to be published in 2028.