Gateway to William Morris Research Sites:

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See also:

Collected Textual Works, Chronology, Art & Socialism Lectures

• The William Morris Internet Archive
• See also: William Morris Societies:
  • William Morris Society (UK)
  • William Morris Society (Canada)
  • William Morris Society (USA) — also the Journal of William Morris Studies

Life and Production of William Morris, Applied Arts & Design, Morris & Co. Archives:

• William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, England
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London. “Search the Collections”
• Tate Britain
• Kelmscott Manor, nr. Lechlade, Gloucestershire

William Morris and Arts & Crafts House Museums:

• William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, north London
• Kelmscott Manor, nr. Lechlade, Gloucestershire
• Red House, Bexleyheath, Kent
• Kelmscott House, Hammersmith
• 7 Hammersmith Terrace, Home of Sir Emery Walker, Arts & Crafts Interiors
• Wightwick Manor, West Midlands

Exhibitions / Installations:

• The Arts & Crafts House: Then and Now, Compton Verney, UK (June 27 -Sept. 13, 2015).
• Anarchy and Beauty: William Morris and his Legacy, 1860-1960 at the National Portrait Gallery, UK (Oct. 16, 2014 - Jan. 11, 2015).
• William Morris: Textiles and Wallpaper at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (2014).
• William Morris “Lawnpaper” by Steve Messam at Blackwell, The Arts & Crafts House, Cumbria, UK (2010).

Textile Collections:

• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• Gawthorpe Hall, Lancashire (featuring the significant textile collection amassed in the early 20th century by Miss Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth). See also their extensive collection image gallery on their Tumblr site.
• University of Victoria Legacy Art Galleries (Canada)
• William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, England (See their "Museum of the Year" video below:)

William Morris Gallery - Museum of the Year 2013 from The Art Fund on Vimeo.

The above listings comprise the research sites I'm aware of so far; viewers are welcome to submit additional links I may have missed (see Contact page.)

Recommended Reading:

• Faulkner, Peter, Against the Age: An Introduction to William Morris, (London, England: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1980).
• Gerard, John (1545-1612), The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes, (Imprinted at London: by Edm. Bollifant for Bonham Norton and Iohn Norton, 1597).
• Glasier, John Bruce, William Morris and the Early Days of the Socialist Movement, (Bristol, England: Hoemmes Press, 1994).
• Henderson, Philip, William Morris: His Life, Work, and Friends, (New York, USA: McGraw-Hill, 1967).
• Jones, Owen, The Grammar of Ornament, (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1910).
• Kellert, Stephen R., Birthright: People and Nature in the Modern World, (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012).
• Lochnan, Katharine A., Douglas E. Schoenherr, Carole Silver, Eds. The Earthly Paradise: Arts and Crafts by William Morris and His Circle from Canadian Collections, (Ontario, Canada: Art Gallery of Canada, 1993).
• MacCarthy, Fiona, William Morris: A Life for Our Time, (London, England: Faber and Faber, 1994).
• Mackail, J.W., The Life of William Morris, (London, England: Longmans, Green & Co., 1922).
• Morris, William: (view all his works at The William Morris Internet Archive):
  • The Collected Works of William Morris, May Morris, Ed., (22 Vols.), (London, England: Longmans, Green & Co., 1910-1915).
  • “Useful Work versus Useless Toil,” (lecture, 1885), published in “Signs of Change,” 1888.
  • “Signs of Change: How we Live and How We Might Live,” 1888.
  • “Facing the Worst of It,” Commonweal, 3:58, 19 February 1887.
  • “Some Hints on Pattern-Designing,” 1884
  • “Why I Am a Socialist,” 1884.
  • “The Lesser Arts of Life,” 1882.
  • “Art and the Beauty of the Earth,” Lecture 13th October 1881.
  • “The History of Pattern Designing,” Lecture 8th April 1879.
• Naylor, Gillian, William Morris By Himself: Designs and Writings, (London, England: Macdonald Orbis, 1988).
• Parry, Linda:
  • Textiles of the Arts and Crafts Movement, (London, England: Thames & Hudson, 2005).
  • William Morris, (London, England: Philip Wilson Publishers, 1996).
  • William Morris Textiles, (London, England: George Weidenfeld & Nicolson Limited, 1983). New reprint 2013.
• Poulson, Christine, William Morris, (London, England: The Apple Press, 1989).
• Ruskin, John, “The Nature of Gothic,” in The Stones of Venice, (London, England: Faber and Faber, 1981).
• Singer, Peter, The Expanding Circle: Ethics and Sociobiology, (New York, USA: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981).
• Taylor, Angus, “Inhaling All the Forces of Nature: William Morris’s Socialist Biophilia,” Trumpeter Journal of Ecosophy, 14:4 (1997).
• Thompson, E.P. William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, (London, England: Lawrence & Wishart Ltd., 1955).
• Thompson, Paul, The Work of William Morris, (New York, USA: The Viking Press, 1967).
• Vallance, Aymer, William Morris: His Art, His Writings, and His Public Life: A Record, (London, England: G. Bell, 1898).
• Waggoner, Diane, Ed., 'The Beauty of Life': William Morris & the Art of Design, (New York, USA: Thames & Hudson, 2003).
• Wilson, Edward O., The Biophilia Hypothesis, eds. Stephen R. Kellert and Edward O. Wilson, (Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 1995).

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