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  Cataloguing the V&A Wedgwood Collection Archive

  small collections relating to key Wedgwood figures and artists such as Harry Barnard (1862 – 1933), Cecil…
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  V&A Special Project at the Venice Art Biennale 2022

  This year’s Venice Art Biennale was curated by Cecilia Alemani, the first Italian woman curator in the…
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  ‘Acts of Resistance’: artist recommendations

  death for her spiritual and military leadership during the Ndebele-Shona uprisings of 1896 – 97 against Cecil…
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  Queen Elizabeth II

  Royal Portrait photograph by Cecil Beaton, 1968. Museum no.…
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  A big win for a young designer – creating the Platinum Jubilee emblem

  Queen Elizabeth II on her Coronation Day, 2nd June 1953, photograph by Cecil Beaton. Museum no.…
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  Secrets of the Museum – 3.6 expanded

  Crowley shares his inspiration for the design – a photograph by Cecil Beaton of the young Elizabeth II…
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  Announcing our V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge 2021 – 22 winners!

  The Best Pitch award went to Saint Cecilia…
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  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  It was indicative of a broader emerging trend regarding contemporary photography that saw a Cecil Beaton…
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  Secrets of the Museum – 3.4 expanded

  was initially attacked by critics for its radical form – even the director of the V&A at the time, Cecil…
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  V&A Innovate National Schools Challenge 2021 – 2022 shortlist announced

  Saint Cecilia’s CofE School, London ManyPen – a multifunctional pen and pencil stub holder to help reduce…
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  Pandemic Objects: The Balcony

  In one of Cecil Beaton’s many photoshoots of the British royal family throughout the 1950s and 1960s,…
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  His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh

  Royal Portrait of HRH The Duke of Edinburgh by Cecil Beaton on the Coronation day of Queen Elizabeth…
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  Bringing the outside inside: studio photography

  PH.723-1987 © Image Victoria and Albert Museum, London Cecil Beaton (1904 – 1980) was also known…
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  Our new Photography Centre is now open

  Fabian Miller and musician and composer Oliver Coates; a screening of Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s Love Cecil…
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  Furniture audit and interesting discoveries by John Williams

  And just to add further glamour, they were owned by the great photographer and costume designer Cecil…
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  The Curator Queen: Queen Mary and the V&A

  daughter Princess Mary at the Franco-British Exhibition in the North Court of the V&A, with Director Sir Cecil…
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  From Idea to Installation: How a display is made at the V&A

  It is a framed plaque depicting the Tomb of Cecilia Metella, an ancient Roman site once popular with…
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  SOUND IN MUSEUMS (2): What About Musical Instruments?

  Initial C from a Choirbook on burnished gold panel, enclosing a miniature of St Cecilia with musical…
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  Marie Laurencin and the lesbian Left Bank

  Toklas by Cecil Beaton, UK, 1948. ©Victoria & Albert Museum.…
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  V&A Illustration Awards: In conversation with Yehrin Tong (Book Cover Winner 2015 & 2019)

  30th anniversary editions which used patterns from iconic female designers such as Barbara Hulanicki, Celia…