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Dr Lynn Hulse is a textile scholar and practitioner, specialising in embroidered furnishings of the Aesthetic and Arts & Crafts movements. She is author of several publications and editor of 'May Morris: Art & Life (2017).' Her most recent 'May Morris Designs' (Ashmolean Museum 2025).
Drawing on her corpus of designs in the Ashmolean Museum, Lynn Hulse will explore May’s approach to translating a sketched idea into a finished piece of embroidery, contextualising her work within the artistic developments of needle-art that were taking place leading up to and during her lifetime.
May Morris described design as ‘the very soul and essence of beautiful embroidery’ and ranked it chief among the four elements that make a piece of needlework truly ‘artistic’.
On March 11th Lynn Hulse will deliver an online lecture, 'May Morris and the Art of Embroidery.' We only have online tickets now available for our lecture series 'Heroines and Heroes of the Arts and Crafts Movement.' 🧵
Image on this thread: Church of St John the Baptist, Macclesfield. Grade II,1832-34, Hayley and Brown, with later alterations. Photo: Dave Kelly cc by sa 2.0
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The House and interiors show 18 Stafford Terrace (now Linley Sambourne House) where Anne, Lady Rosse, held the meeting to found the Victorian Society.
History in the making…
25th February marks 68 years since the founding of the Vic Soc. #onthisday in 1958, Lady Rosse, John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were amongst the founding members of the Society for the preservation and appreciation of Victorian & Edwardian heritage, architecture and arts.
Here's the Mechanics Instutute, another building in Manchester that wouldn't be standing today without our Manchester Regional Group. Photo: Patricia Smith
Another chat with Ken will go out tomorrow on BBC Manchester's breakfast programme focussing on the Vic Soc campaign to save and list the former Parrs/Westminster Bank. Photo: Patricia Smith
To mark our Manchester Group's 60th Anniversary, the delightful Ken Moth, veteran member and campaigner, was interviewed by journalist Michelle Adamson on BBC Manchester breakfast programme this AM. You can listen back on iplayer it’s 3 hours 20 min into the programme:
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Following the submission of an extensive Business Plan Chelmsford Diocese voted to support the next stage of the plan to save key parts of Birch Church! Critically, Chelmsford Diocese have agreed to contribute about 10% of the project’s full cost, which will be over £3M
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Birch Inspire, campaigners for St Peter & St Paul, Essex, have had a great step forward in preventing parts of the Church from demolition. We placed the building on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2012. 🧵
📷 Dan Sceats
Their partnership will be analysed by Dr Calvert, a historian specialising in the art, architecture, design, and fashion of the C19 and early C20 centuries. The Mackintosh Research Fellow at Glasgow School of Art 2015-2021, she is the author of 'The Mack: CRM & the Glasgow School of Art.'
‘You are half if not three-quarters in all my architectural work’, wrote Mackintosh to his wife, but how true was that?
Our Spring lecture series now has just online tickets available, as in-person tickets have sold out! We are really looking forward to welcoming Dr Robyne Calvert to talk about Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald. 🧵
Read more about the building's history and why we added it to our list in 2023 here: www.victoriansociety.org.uk/endangered-b...
The owner of Trowse Pumping Station (Top Ten Endandered Building 2023) has been ordered to make urgent repairs due to its deteriorating condition following a fire in late 2023. Norwich City Council has issued an enforcement notice to the property owner. bit.ly/3MGkrn4
Photos: Sam Barker @skyscout_
Join us for our fourth lecture in our ongoing spring lecture series, 'Heroines and Heroes of the Arts & Crafts Movement.'
Dr Elizabeth Cumming will be lecturing on Phoebe Anna Traquair on February 25th.
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Colour: Aldermaston Court, Berkshire. Photograph: Trevor Bishenden
B&W: Aldermaston Court c.1944, occupied by the US Army Airforce XIX Tactical Air Command. Photo: Carl E. Bailey, USAF Historical Research Agency Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Portland House from sales particulars.
The Victorian Society are keen to talk to AWE about their plans for the listed buildings.
Read more about why we put Aldermaston on our Top Ten in May 2025: bit.ly/4pFHgFx
During WWI in 1917, on the parkland, what is now known as RAF Aldermaston was established as part of Britain’s growing military aviation. It was a training airfield for the Royal Flying Corps, the predecessor of the RAF. It later became the AWE.