Events
BOOKING EVENTS:
Please note that unless otherwise stated:
• Talks are at Kelmscott House starting 2.15 pm.
• Latecomers will not be admitted; we advise you arrive at least 10 minutes before the talk begins.
• Tickets: members, £10; non-members, £12; students/unwaged £5
Please book tickets for talks online. Alternatively applications for tickets may be sent to the WMS office – address at the bottom of this page. Stamped addressed envelopes should accompany all postal bookings.
The pre-booking of tickets for all events is strongly advised. Our historic Coach House lecture room has limited seating capacity and if you attend without booking beforehand you risk being turned away.
August 21, 2019 10.30 - 13.00
Weaving: Summer Family Workshop
Use our new weaving looms and a variety of yarns to create a placemat or bookmarks. Find out how to turn coloured paper into a design inspired by William Morris….
Find out more
September 3, 2019 10.30 - 13.00
Arts & Crafts Textiles Tour
An opportunity to get up close to items that are rarely on show to the public with a specialist tour of both the Society’s premises and nearby Emery Walker’s House….
Find out more
September 7, 2019 14.00
Poems of Protest: Marking the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre
Join us for an afternoon of radical poetry marking the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre. Actor Adjoa Andoh, writer Michael Rosen and The William Morris Society’s President Lord Sawyer…
Find out more
September 14, 2019 14.15
PRE-RAPHAELITE SISTERS
160 years after the first pictures were exhibited by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1849, a major new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery will explore the overlooked contribution of twelve…
Find out more
September 28, 2019 14.00-16.00
Totally Thames 2019: ceramic painting workshop
We are delighted to be part of Totally Thames 2019! William Morris loved the Thames and a number of his best-loved designs, such as Windrush, Wandle and Wey, were named…
Find out more
October 1, 2019 10.30 - 13.00
Arts & Crafts Textiles Tour
An opportunity to get up close to items that are rarely on show to the public with a specialist tour of both the Society’s premises and nearby Emery Walker’s House….
Find out more
October 8, 2019 19.00
KELMSCOTT LECTURE 2019 William Morris: South Kensington & Socialism
‘I do not want art for a few, any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few’. So said William Morris, a great champion of the Arts…
Find out more
November 5, 2019 10.30 - 13.00
Arts & Crafts Textile Tour
An opportunity to get up close to items that are rarely on show to the public with a specialist tour of both the Society’s premises and nearby Emery Walker’s House….
Find out more
November 16, 2019 14.15
THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND SCIENCE
In their manifestos from the early 1850s, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood argued that art should model itself on science, aiming to achieve the same standards of rigour, precision and truth. In…
Find out more
November 26, 2019 10.30 - 13.00
The Final Arts & Crafts Textile Tour of the Year
An opportunity to get up close to items that are rarely on show to the public with a specialist tour of both the Society’s premises and nearby Emery Walker’s House….
Find out more
December 7, 2019 14.15
EVELYN DE MORGAN AND JANE MORRIS: REINVENTING PRE-RAPHAELITISM
Evelyn De Morgan visited Kelmscott Manor in the early 20th century with one clear objective, to use Jane Morris as her muse. Despite following so clearly in Rossetti’s footsteps, her…
Find out more
January 25, 2020 14.15
WILLIAM MORRIS AND THE FOUNDING OF THE BUILDING CONSERVATION MOVEMENT
In 1877, William Morris and Philip Webb, alarmed by the destructive “restoration” of ancient buildings that was occurring in Victorian England, together founded the Society for the Protection of Ancient…
Find out more