The William Morris who persists in the public mind is mostly the one who lingers on our walls – so much so that curators have often felt compelled to ‘reveal’ his other sides, such as his poetry or ...

When they come into bud, a courting peacock would break them. The Victorian arts and craftsman William Morris had two superb peacocks in his dining room at Kelmscott Manor, his country retreat in ...

The face behind those designs? One Mary Newill, a key figure in the Birmingham School of Art between 1892 and 1919. The Newill rug is inspired by Mary Newill's youthful embroidery. She was a friend of ...

In the 150 years since he created them, the joyful botanical prints of the Victorian artist, poet and socialist activist ...

On William Morris' birthday, we republish his lecture on the decorative arts — in which he laid out his vision of art created ...