William Morris - art and idealism.(Victorian Values)

History Today, May, 1996 by Press, Jon

For the 150th anniversary of Victoria's accession, History Today published a series of articles examining Victorian Values' through the prism of some of the key individuals of her reign and the ideas and movements they reflected and generated. With the centenary of the great queen's Diamond Jubilee coming up next year, we are returning to the subject and expanding the scope of the original series. in the first of our Victorian Values Mark 2 articles, Charles Harvey and Jon Press examine the aesthetic achievements of the multi-talented and pioneering early Socialist, whose life and work are celebrated in a major exhibition about to open in London at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

William Morris was a man of extaraordinary creative energy who dedicated his life...

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