Visit our current exhibition “Collecting Morris: Highlights from the Helena Stephenson Collection”. Our museum is open Thursday, Saturday, & Sunday from 1-4pm. Please note there is a £3.50 entry fee to the museum.
Craftsman, designer, poet, printer, socialist, novelist, environmentalist
William Morris was a revolutionary force in Victorian Britain. His work dramatically changed the fashions and ideologies of the era and he remains as influential and important today as he was in his own time.
The William Morris Society was founded in 1955 to share knowledge of the life and works of William Morris amongst our members and the wider public.
The Society is based in the Coach House of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, Morris’s London home for the last eighteen years of his life and where there is now a charming museum and event space…
What’s On
The Society has an exciting variety of exhibitions, talks and events, both online and at Kelmscott House throughout the year.
November 20, 2024
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Online
From about 1868 to his death in 1893, Frederick Garrard made a range of tiles at the Millwall Pottery in London, in early Dutch polychrome delftware style as well as reproductions of early Spanish cuenca tiles and some medieval line impressed tiles. Recently, a few of his tiles have come to light revealing designs based Read More
November 13, 2024
10:00 am
1:00 pm
Kelmscott House Coach House, 26 Upper Mall, W6 9TA & Emery Walker's House
This is a rare opportunity to get up close with items that are rarely on show to the public with a specialist tour of both Emery Walker’s House and the nearby William Morris Society premises. The tour will explore the Arts & Crafts textiles in both collections, including exquisite examples of May Morris’ work. The Read More
October 16, 2024
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Online
On 16 October 2024 6-7pm The Victorian Radicals exhibition currently showing at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery explores how three generations of artists revolutionised the visual arts in Britain, reaffirming the value of beauty and the handmade in a rapidly changing world. In this online talk, discover some highlights of the exhibition to find out Read More
October 23, 2024
11:00 am
11:30 am
Online
On 23 October 2024 11-11:30am To mark the latest exhibition at Kelmscott House, our October Coffee with a Curator talk will highlight some of the treasures from the collection that feature in this beautiful display.Marion Helena Stephenson née Deverell (1885-1972) lived at Kelmscott House from 1926 to 1972. Marion was a keen Morrisian, enthusiastic collector Read More
November 1, 2024
10:30 am
12:30 pm
Kelmscott House Coach House, 26 Upper Mall, W6 9TA
On 1 November 2024 10:30am-12:30pm Two workshop sessions for children aged 6-12 years Woolly Owls: in the first part, make an owl friend by knitting or winding yarn round an owl shape. If you have never knitted before this is an easy way to begin. Then it’s Puppet time! We will make hand and finger Read More
December 11, 2024
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Kelmscott House Coach House, 26 Upper Mall, W6 9TA and Online
On 11 December 2024 6-7pm Ruth Mallory was born in Godalming to Arts and Crafts ‘royalty’. Her father, Hugh Thackery Turner, designed Godalming’s Titanic Memorial, her mother May founded the Women’s Guild with May Morris. When she married the young Charterhouse teacher George Mallory in 1914 her world changed for ever. Kate’s talk reveals that Read More
September 13, 2024
2:00 pm
5:00 pm
Kelmscott House Coach House, 26 Upper Mall, W6 9TA
This exhibition highlights the collection of objects donated to the William Morris Society by Helena Stephenson, the woman who also bequeathed Kelmscott House to the Society upon her death in 1972. Stephenson was an avid collector and enthusiast of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement. She was a member of the Kelmscott Fellowship, Read More
November 6, 2024
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Kelmscott House Coach House, 26 Upper Mall, W6 9TA & Online
On 6 November 2024 6:00pm William Morris is one of the central figures in Olivia Laing’s latest bestsellling book, The Garden Against Time. In this discussion with Torin Douglas MBE, she will be exploring what gardens meant to Morris, both as real places of sanctuary and inspiration, and as an abiding metaphor for utopia, a Read More
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Visit our online or in-person museum gift shop for the perfect gift ideas for all of the William Morris enthusiasts in your life. We have exciting new items from homeware, puzzles, and books, to calendars, planners, and notebooks. Visit www.williammorrissocietyshop.com to discover more!
24th October - 7th November at the William Morris Society Each year the William Morris Society partners with the Macbeth Centre, an adult education hub in Hammersmith, to display their students' work. A range of works have been chosen to display the breadth of skills that are honed through the classes at Macbeth and that Read More
