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4 days ago · Nuffield Place reveals the surprisingly down-to-earth lives of William Morris, later Lord Nuffield and founder of the Morris Motor Company, and his wife, Elizabeth. Their home and personal possessions are just as they left them, the decor and furnishings intact.
5 days ago · The revival of calligraphy in Great Britain at the end of the 19th century was part of a broader artistic reaction against the mechanization of manual crafts. About 1870 the English author, socialist, and artist William Morris turned his attention to the ancient practices of scribes and began to experiment with writing.
5 days ago · William Morris, “"The Proud King",” William Morris Archive, accessed July 12, 2024, http://morrisarchive.lib.uiowa.edu/items/show/361.
3 days ago · University of Texas Austin Harry Ransom Center for the Humanities, MS 2934 3.3
5 days ago · His name stands first in the list of those commissioned to farm the Irish Revenues from 1669 to 1675; he had ten colleagues, of whom six were at some time or other elected Aldermen of London, viz. : William Bucknall (1667), William Dashwood (1667), Philip Jemmett (1667), John Breedon (1667), James Hayes (1664), and his brother Dannet Forth (1669).
5 days ago · Lindenborg Pool, [a tale by William Morris]. 530 Cavalay, A Chapter of a Life. [Chapters I-V of a tale by William Fulford]. 535 Alexander Smith, [an essay by William Fulford]. 548 The Work of Young Men in the Present Age. [author uncertain, poss. Cormell Price]. 558 The Hollow Land. A Tale. [Chapters I and II. By William Morris]. 565 The Chapel ...
5 days ago · The principal officer of the great wardrobe was the master. He was appointed by the Crown by letters patent under the great seal. The grants in 1660 and 1671 in favour of Sir Edward Montagu and Ralph Montagu were for life. Despite this, the latter was displaced on the accession of James II in 1685 by Viscount Preston who was appointed during ...
