Online Spring Lecture Series 2026
Heroines and Heroes of the Arts and Crafts Movement
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As a result of the pandemic, the Victorian Society’s two annual lecture series have since autumn 2020 taken place online, where they have drawn very large audiences. With the spring 2026 series, organised by Steven Brindle, Maya Donelan and Michael Hall, we are moving to a hybrid arrangement of in-person lectures that will be live-streamed as well as being available as recordings. The subject is one of perennial interest, the Arts and Crafts movement. Although it might be thought that there is little more to be learned about its leading practitioners, our speakers will be drawing on a large amount of new research, much of which is highlighting the often-neglected role played by women in a movement that remains of direct relevance to architects, artists and designers today.
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NEW STARTING TIME: 6:30pm
Each lecture is recorded and sent out within a week after the talk. This recording can be accessed at any time.
There is new pricing in place. The online lecture costs:
£6 for members/ £8 for non-members / £3 for Young Victorians
Online Spring Lecture: 1
Philip Webb by Max Donnelly
Wednesday 28 January, 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
If asked to name the most significant architect of the Arts and Crafts movement, most people would choose Philip Webb (1831-1915), yet despite the fame of his highly influential houses, the full extent of his achievements in the decorative arts has been overshadowed by his close personal and professional relationship with William Morris.
Max Donnelly, Curator of Furniture and Woodwork 1800–1915 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will discuss Webb’s works as a designer of domestic interiors, drawing on the wealth of new biographical information about the architect in his collected letters, published by John Aplin in 2016, and on the research he has carried out for a chapter on Webb’s designs for interior decoration in the catalogue for an exhibition on Webb to be held at the Bard Graduate Center, New York, and the V&A.
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Image: Memorial Cottages, Kelmscott: Photo by No Swan So Fine – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=116808136