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British Design History, 2019

A four story, brown brick warehouse with large windows. Outside the building are signs advertising the Museum of London Docklands.

George Hibbert: Collector, Philanthropist … Slaveowner

Alt Text: A black and white drawing looking down from a balcony into a museum gallery. Plaster casts of various classical and Renaissance sculpture clutter the floors surrounding a giant column in two pieces. People dressed in dark clothing sit on benches at the base of the column, some of them sketching.

Accessibility Across the Ages at the Victoria & Albert

A chandelier seen from below. The branches form a star-like pattern. Behind, beige and coffee colored floral plasterwork can be seen against the blue of the ceiling.

Saccharine Survivors: William Parker’s Assembly Room Chandeliers

Visions of the High Life

Bristol’s Rolinda Sharples and her American Connections

Horace Walpole and John Soane: Stained Glass, Old and New

The right shoe of a pair of green ladies’ half boots, rising to the ankle with green shoe laces up the inside of the shoe. Black leather shoe toe and heel.

Stepping Out: A Pair of 1820’s Ladies’ Half Boots

A black and white photograph of a large group of men wearing hunting gear posed behind the prostrate bodies of four tigers and a bear lying on a bed of plant debris.

Catch a Tiger by the Tail

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