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Our tour will trace many of the events and locations associated with Morris’s hugely prolific career, while also examining his fruitful collaborations with many of the leading artists, designers and architects of his time and his subsequent influence on later craft-workers. We begin in London, where Morris spent the greater part of his life and where outstanding examples of his work can be seen at the Victoria & Albert Museum and at Holy Trinity Church, Chelsea.

Come to know more about several of the planners, patrons, and dreamers beginning in the 18th century who worked to make life better for workers. Among the planners are two who through their writings in The Craftsman Magazine were known to a number of people in the United States — Barry Parker and Raymond Unwin. Parker was born in Derbyshire and Unwin in Yorkshire and these cousins and partners were members of the Northern Art Workers Guild and deeply involved in work on many of the villages and communities we will visit.

Our October tour will take us to many of their masterpieces as well as some marvelous small chapels and churches throughout the country such as the glorious St Andrew’s Roker often called the Cathedral of the Arts and Crafts by J.D Sedding who also designed Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Street in London. And in London the magnificent All Saints, Margaret Street by William Butterfield.

Examine the work of women who designed and created beautiful buildings and objects. The tour will be based on the series of articles we are now writing and collecting and which can be seen on our website. On this tour, we will be looking at work in museums and in private collections. As always you will meet and talk with scholars, authors, collectors and current craftworkers and artists.