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A very exciting new podcast episode with the singer/songwriter and Pre-Raphaelite enthusiast, Paris Paloma.
Celebrating craftswoman, embroiderer, designer, pioneer of artistic dress, model, wife and mother - Jane Morris, who was born on this day in 1839.
Three depictions of her, first by her husband, William Morris, her friend, Evelyn De Morgan, and lastly by her lover, Rossetti. …
Another fascinating episode from our podcast team-
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LIVE NOW! Welcome to Lizzie Jacklin and Esme Whittaker who tell us about a magnificent new exhibition opening soon at the Laing Gallery which focuses on the unusual, but essential and wonderful, intermedial relationships between poetry and painting in Pre-Raphaelitism.
A campaign to fundraise to have Pre-Raph artist Marie Spartali Stillman’s headstone conserved in time for the centenary of her death next year-
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LIVE NOW! Welcome to Fiona Slattery Clark to discuss her exhibition 'May Morris: Crafting a Legacy' at the Lady Lever Gallery. This exhibition celebrates the creative works of May Morris who devoted her life to crafting a legacy which continues to inspire designers and makers.
TOMORROW: Details Of A New In Person Lecture - pre-raphaelitesociety.org/ev…
🌟DATE: Saturday 19th September 2026
🌟TIME: 11.30am
🌟SPEAKER: Andreane Rellou
🌟VENUE: The Birmingham and Midland Institute
🖼️ TITLE: THE THREE GRACES SHORT FILM AND LECTURE.
Details Of A New In Person Lecture: THE THREE GRACES SHORT FILM AND LECTURE.
🌟DATE: Saturday 19th September 2026
🌟TIME: 11.30am
🌟SPEAKER: Andreane Rellou
🌟VENUE: The Birmingham and Midland Institute
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Deadline fast approaching! Register your interest to present a paper now- pre-raphaelitesociety.org/gr…
Founder’s Day Lecture Speaker: Dr. Carol Jacobi
Lecture Title: ‘Pre-Raphaelite! Showing and Telling 1848-2028’
Date: Saturday 10th October 2026
Time: AGM - 10.30 am
Founder’s Day Lecture: 11.45am
Venue: The Birmingham and Midland Institute
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LIVE NOW! Welcome to Casey Maeve who explores nineteenth-century poetic depictions of Sappho who uniquely appealed to the Pre-Raphaelites and later Decadence and Aesthete movements, empowering and inspiring a new generation of both women and queer writers.
All the summer hats by Julia Margaret Cameron for #thursdayvibes. The first entitled ‘For I’m to be the Queen of May Mother’, the second ‘Summer Days’ and the third ‘Ophelia Study No 2’.
New Talk: FORESTS OF A FUTURE PAST IN WILLIAM MORRIS’S ‘NEWS FROM NOWHERE’
Dr. Dion Dobrzynski
11am, Saturday 13th June
ONLINE VIA ZOOM.
This talk explores Morris’ vision of a forested London as a challenge to industrial capitalism.
Tickets: pre-raphaelitesociety.org/ev…
Sweet Slumber for this #WednesdayWonder.
1. 🖼️ ‘Silent Noon’, 1894, by John Byam Liston Shaw- inspired by Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s sonnet of the same name from ‘The House of Life’.
2. 🖼️ ‘Sweet Summer’, John William Waterhouse, 1912.
3. 🖼️ ‘Summer’, Walter Crane, 1895.
Escaping the heat by imagining we are mermaids #hotsummer.
‘I would be a mermaid fair;
I would sing to myself the whole of the day;
With a comb of pearl I would comb my hair;’
Extract from ‘The Mermaid’, by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1830. …
A free conference in London on Monday -
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