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  The Powells: Alfred and Louise

  The legacy of Alfred Hoare Powell (1865 – 1960) and Louise Powell (1865 – 1956) testifies to the adaptability of manufacturing practices at Josiah Wedgwood & Sons in the early twentieth century. Their influence on...
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  Following in Turner’s footsteps at Tintern Abbey

  In the 18th century, this was exactly the type of romantic ruin that brought artists and poets to the…
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  South Indian gold-leaf paintings

  After the Vijayanagar Empire was defeated by the Deccan Sultanates, many artists from the region migrated…
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  From Spain to California: the odyssey of a fifteenth-century artesonado

  An outstanding example of architectural woodwork displayed at the Legion of Honor, part of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, is a painted and gilded wooden ceiling, or artesonado, from the lost palace in...
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  Mosaics of Cloth

  artistic labour to more mainstream markets, through exhibitions and sales, this art form is now seeing a revival…
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  Fashion: Kimono

  to the widening stripes of the Taisho period (1912 – 1926); and on to the explosion of colourful graphic…
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  Moving masterpieces: the journey of the Raphael Cartoons to the V&A

  If you were to select an object from the V&A’s collection that represents the relationship between art, war, and technology, you might be drawn to the plaster cast of Trajan’s Column in the Cast Courts,...
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  Protecting Spanish Cultural Heritage at the Beginning of the 20th Century

  The first half of the 20th century saw successive governments attempt to regulate the trade in Spanish antiquities.
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  PERCEIVE: Preserving autochromes

  the collection, but re-housing most of the plates as well.…
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  A Moving Experience: Olympia to the Olympic Park

  How do you move over 250,000 objects, 350,000 library books and nearly 1,000 archives from one side of London to the other, when no one has attempted such a feat before? The short answer is...
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  Terracotta in South Kensington: the Origins of a Revival

  We may associate terracotta used on buildings with Mediterranean countries but the material also has a history in Britain. Back in the 16th century, following Italian Renaissance precedents, it became common in England. In subsequent...
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  Behind the beam: How laser cleaning works

  What is laser cleaning, exactly? And how does it work? Laser Cleaning Fellow Julia Brand explains…
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  V&A Innovate 2023 – 24 | Overall Winners’ visit to architecture studio

  The student group had responded to the theme of ‘Play’ in reinterpreting a playground as a multi-use…
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  The lasers are back on!

  Laser-cleaning activities at the V&A have resumed in the last few months, and I am now a laser-cleaning fellow in the newly refurbished laboratory of the Science section, Conservation department. Cleaning museum objects is a...
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  Run clubs, bus stations and local heroes – six postcards from east London

  Cricus, Kay Ibrahim, Shenell Kennedy, Suhaib Hashi, Safa and Nabra Badr all submitted photographs that reveal…
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  The V&A’s wartime canteen – lessons in eating, together

   Lessons in eating, together… V&A  ‘Guard Book’  MA/32/251, neg. 77294,  Bethnal Green Museum Forecourt, c1938 Canteens are democratic establishments, founded on principles of communal eating and rest. At the V&A, employee life revolves around the...
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  Chiming in the new year with Dickens

  At least one Christmas I am sure you have settled down to watch, or perhaps even read, ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1843). It is hard to go through life and avoid this Dickensian classic altogether –...
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  Chiming in the new year with Dickens

  At least one Christmas I am sure you’ve settled down and ended up watching or perhaps even reading A Christmas Carol. It is hard to go through life and avoid this Dickensian classic altogether (and...
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  Centralia by Poulomi Basu 

  Photographed over the course of ten years, the pictures reveal the many truths and falsities behind this…
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  A window into Mughal craftsmanship: conservation of a C16th white marble jali

  On the 9th November a new major exhibition opened at the V&A: The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and…