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  The evolution of NVAP: how we filmed over 400 theatre performances

  Over the next few years SVHS was replaced by the more readily available VHS, meaning that standard players…
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  Who was the ‘monster king’?

  Who succeeded Edward the Confessor, who opposed him, and why? How was William Rufus killed?…
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  Mummy issues

  (a powder literally made from ground-up human remains, supposedly with healing properties) became a standard…
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  V&A East | Kaufmann Office

  Office for Edgar J. Kaufmann, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935 – 37. Museum no.…
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  Champagne standard lamps: cleaning a 20th-century masterpiece

  In 2019, the V&A acquired a pair of Champagne standard lamps, designed by Salvador Dalí for the Surrealist patron, collector, collaborator and poet Edward James. The two standard lamps were commissioned by James for his...
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  Objects incoming!

  Mae West Lips sofa, designed by Salvador Dalí and Edward James, made by Green and Abbott, 1938 – 39,…
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  Pandemic Objects: Caravan

  Related Objects from the Collection: From Coventry Transport Museum 1959 Standard Atlas Camper…
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  A personal object with public significance

  Waikato War’ Shaun Higgins confirms that the trading and purchasing of photographs in New Zealand was standard…
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  Henry Cole and the Koh-i-Noor Diamond

  critics couldn’t agree on the outcome: ‘The diamond … has fully redeemed its character’ (London Evening Standard…
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  Photography – Self and Other

  After discussing portraits by Edward Weston, Ruth Bernhard, Wilhelm Von Gloeden, Bruce Bernard, Deborah…
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  East London in pictures: Arthur Villiers’ gift from the Gardner Collection

  John sold the entire collection to the MP Edward Coates  in 1909, and it remained with him until his…
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  Searching for the scarab: discovering the binding designs of A.A. Turbayne in the National Art Library

  Pictorial advertisement for Macmillan’s illustrated standard novels. Colour lithograph.…
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  ‘Slumland Art’: Exhibiting the Bethnal Green Men’s Institute 1924-1938

  Attendees during their run included Viscount Haldane, Sir Edgar Bonham Carter, William Rothenstein and…
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  Object Pitch Day 7 – 19 November 2014

  Significantly, “17th-century English embroidery tends to be done to fairly standard lines, with women…
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  Object Pitch Day 3 – 16 September 2014

  something that ‘Whether it attracts you or appals you, […] is certainly breath-taking’ (London’s Evening Standard…
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  What Does it Take to Work in a Museum?

  It is time, he says, to move beyond the bog-standard participant feedback form!  …
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  Edward Bawden – master of linocut

  George Orwell might have Room 101 but the V&A has Box 101 – to be precise Circ Box 101. Circ is short for ‘Circulation’ – the department that sent travelling exhibitions around the UK between 1847...
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  Shakespeare in a Suitcase

  Isaac Jaggard, born 1600 (printer) and Edward Blount (printer), The First Folio, Museum Ref: L.1392-…