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  Introducing the NAL’s Chief Librarian, Richard Espley

  Da Vinci’s notebooks to Dickens’ manuscripts, but also to delight people and make them smile at an Edward…
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  Art Attack: the vandalism of artworks by the suffragettes, and how the V&A prepared for an anticipated attack

  . © V&A Archive On the 11th of November 1912, New Scotland Yard Commissioner Sir Edward R.…
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  Lacquer in the Americas

  of us teamed up, bringing together our different backgrounds and specialisms: Dr Lucia Burgio, V&A Lead…
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  New photography acquisition: Laura Aguilar

  He had a small darkroom in their home, and as a young girl, Laura was inspired to learn photography.…
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  Playing with words

  From beautiful, moving Japanese haikus to downright silly limericks by Edward Lear, our collection holds…
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  Crimson velvet, gold and sequins

  Here inscriptions were added to a blank leaf at the end of the Bible recording the marriage of Jane Compton…
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  When Science Meets Art: Making London Porcelain

  Harris Academy in Newham and Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School in Holland Park have visited the V&A to learn…
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  Racist ceramics and fantasies of Blackness

  But with the help of artists and experts, we can examine them closely to learn more about the context…
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  V&A East | Kaufmann Office

  This blog was co-authored by Becky Knott (Lead Curator CRC, V&A East) and Holly Harris (Project Co-ordinator…
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  How things are made: Knitting

  .: T.293-1971 © Victoria and Albert Museum, London Let’s learn about knitting Knitting can be…
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  A new 20th and 21st Century Gallery at the V&A

  Mae West Lips sofa by Salvador Dali and Edward James, 1937 – 38. Museum no. W.6-2018.…
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  Objects incoming!

  museum collection, which is recorded, preserved and made accessible for future generations to enjoy and learn…
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  Photographing Bayeux

  Cundall arranged it through his company, and commissioned a photographer called Edward Dossetter to do…
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  The Birds of Australia

  ‘Phalacrocorax punctatus, spotted cormorant’ by John Gould and Edward Lear, from ‘The Birds of Australia…
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  The paintings reserve collection is moving

  The issues that were identified included: Tenting or flaking that could lead to ground and paint being…
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  Happy Birthday Stephen Sondheim!

  , often working with Matthew Bourne’s dance company New Adventures for which he designed Swan Lake, Edward…
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  Secrets of the Museum

  If you’ve been tuning in to Secrets of the Museum and are eager to learn more about what goes on here…
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  Restoration of the Master’s Chair of the Joiners & Ceilers Company

  The chair, on long-term loan to the Victoria and Albert Museum, was made in 1754 by Edward Newman, a…
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  A personal object with public significance

  The question, of course, is ‘is Thomas Edward Green the person I have been looking for?’…
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  Follow your nose – Brucciani’s plaster casts of the face of Michelangelo’s David as object lessons for art education

  School in South Kensington between 1880 and 1910 after moving to Britain to work for the sculptor Joseph Edgar…