The Journal of William Morris Studies
ISSN: 1756-1353. Editor: Patrick O'Sullivan .
About the Journal
The Journal of William Morris Studies welcomes contributions on all subjects relating to the life and works of William Morris. Articles may therefore concern Morris’s own life and works, or those of his circle – as directly influenced by, or influencing, Morris himself and his interests – or the wider implications of Morris’s ideas in design, literature, printing, political thought and environmentalism. For more information see Guidelines for Contributors. The current editor is Patrick O'Sullivan, with Peter Faulkner as reviews editor .
History of the Journal
The first issue of the Journal of the William Morris Society appeared in 1961. Edited by the Hon. Sec. R. C. H. Briggs, it was produced by letterpress at Tonbridge Printers. By the summer of 1976 letterpress had become expensive, and printing by offset lithography was provided by Graphic Press of Highbury. Briggs served as editor until the Winter 1978 issue, when he was succeeded by Geoffrey Bensusan.
By Winter 1981, Ray Watkinson was also involved, and became editor beginning with Winter 1983, continuing in the post until Autumn 1986. Production was transferred to Oxprint of Oxford. The Summer edition of 1983 was the first to include a bibliography by David and Sheila Latham, covering the years 1978-1980; subsequent bibliographies have become a regular feature.
Peter Faulkner was editor from Spring 1987 until Spring 1996, and passed production to the Short-Run Press, Exeter; Stephen Coleman was book review editor from Autumn 1993 to Autumn 1997, and edited the special issue on Education of Autumn 1994. Nicholas Salmon was editor from Autumn 1996 to Spring 2001, with Christine Poulson and Peter Faulkner editing the reviews.
Rosie Miles of the University of Wolverhampton edited her first issue in Winter 2001. She inaugurated the Editorial Advisory Board, and with the Winter 2002 issue, oversaw the change of name to Journal of William Morris Studies, better to reflect its scholarly nature. She also edited special issues for the 50th Anniversary of the William Morris Society (Summer-Winter 2005) and on Teaching Morris (Summer 2007). The current editor is Patrick O'Sullivan, formerly of the University of Plymouth, and co-editor (with Stephen Coleman) of William Morris and News from Nowhere(1990), who took over with the Winter 2007 issue.
Editorial Advisory Board
Phillippa Bennett, University of Northampton, UK
Florence Boos, University of Iowa, USA
Jim Cheshire, University of Lincoln, UK
Peter Cormack, London, UK
Peter Faulkner, University of Exeter
Norman Kelvin, City University of New York, USA
Ruth Kinna, University of Loughborough, UK
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra, Ryerson University, Canada
Ruth Levitas, University of Bristol, UK
Jan Marsh, London, UK
Linda Parry, Littlebourne, Kent, UK
Tony Pinkney, Lancaster University, UK
Peter Stansky, Stanford University, USA
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Copies of the Journal are free to members of the William Morris Society - find out more on the membership page
News
50th Anniversary Issue The Winter 2011 number of the Journal (Volume XIX No. 3) is now available. This is a special issue on the theme ‘Morris the Green’, which examines some of the ‘greener’ aspects of William Morris’s thought and writings. There are also articles on a newly-discovered image of William Morris by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, on the history of the Journal from 1961 to 2011, the latest installment of the William Morris Annotated Bibliography, and reviews of books on Morris's visits to Amiens, and to Iceland, on William Morris and the Idea of Community, on Morris and A.C. Swinburne, and C.F.A. Voysey, on other aspects of 'Morris and craftsmanship', on William Morris the Blog, and on Edgelands, and The New Ruins of Britain. Read More
Back Issues
Printed copies of most back issues of the Journal are available at a cost of £2 each to members and £3 to non-members. Orders by letter, fax, or e-mail should state which numbers are required (see Index to Past Issues); if available, they will be sent with an invoice in order to include cost of postage. Please contact us
Index to Past Issues
The Journal of William Morris Studies 1961-2008 is now available online. For indexes by date, author, title and subject, see the journal page from the William Morris Society in the United States website.
Information for Contributors
Guidelines relating to contributing to the Journal are available from the contributors page.
