In January 2023, the William Morris Society in the United States will host two panels at the Modern Language Association annual conference. The conference will take place from 5-8 January 2023 in San Francisco. Queering the Pre-Raphaelites Examining poetry,...
First published in 1996, the original edition of this book accompanied the Victoria and Albert Museum’s landmark exhibition, William Morris 1834-1896, the most comprehensive and ambitious exhibition ever mounted on the designer’s life and work. Revised, updated, and substantially expanded, this lavish volume explores the balance between Morris’s various spheres of activity, placing his art in the context of its time and examining his legacy.
The major conference "Radical Victorians: Race, Labor, Identity" will take place online from January 20-22, 2022. Organized by The Frick Pittsburgh, the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University, and Yale University, the conference will offer new responses to...
Dr Serena Trowbridge, Reader in Victorian Literature at Birmingham City University, UK, is organizing an online reading group for The Earthly Paradise. Beginning in February 2022, the group will read through Morris's epic over the course of a year. The Earthly...
The William Morris Society in the United States is saying farewell to President Michael Robertson, who is moving to London, where he will be an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, University of London, while he completes his biography of William Morris. Former President Jane Carlin is serving as Interim President until Jude Nixon becomes President in early 2022.
Aspects of Britain is an online symposium celebrating the historian Peter Stansky's work on George Orwell, William Morris, and the Bloomsbury group, on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Stansky is Frances and Charles Field Professor of History, emeritus, at Stanford...
The summer 2021 issue of Useful and Beautiful, the magazine of the William Morris Society in the United States, is now available as a PDF for all readers. Download here. WMS-US members receive a physical copy of the magazine and immediate access to the PDF. Find out...
December 18, 2021 - June 13, 2022 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA "This exhibition explores (Morris & Co.'s) longevity, highlighting Morris & Co’s design tenets and favored techniques as well as Chicago area sites where the work of Morris and his...
The William Morris Society in the US is hosting two sessions at the 2022 Modern Language Association Annual Convention, to be held January 6-9, 2022 in Washington, DC. Thursday, January 6th, 12 noon: "The International Morris" Marriott Marquis, Silver Linden Moderated...