Peasant Arts - Haslemere

The book is being launched at Haslemere Educational Museum this Saturday 19th November at 11am. All proceeds go to support the museum's Peasant Arts collection. The price on the day is £7:50, or...

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  Rustic Renaissance, Eyre Catherine, Haslemere Educational Museum 2022 It's been a number of years in train, but finally the main findings from this blog are to be published in a nice re...

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I recently read Ultimate Folly: The Rises and Falls of Whitaker Wright the World's Most Shameless Swindler (Macrory, Henry, Biteback Publishing, London, 2018) about Wright who lived at Lea Park,...

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The Victorian House of Arts and Crafts Episode 2 last week, BBC 2 (BBC iPlayer) featured the challenge of making a bed in the style of this Heals bed, below.  The image of the Heals bed was sh...

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The Haslemere Educational Museum have printed Christmas cards this year with Godfrey Blount designs.  These unique cards showcase the special local talent of Haslemere's Peasant Arts movement, a...

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Haslemere Peasant Tapestry on the cover of the newly published 2017 Annual Report of the Haslemere Educational Museum.

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The work of the Haslemere Peasants was exhibited in New Zealand as part of a British Government exhibition.  The Arts and Crafts works were curated by Walter Crane. In 5 December 1906 there is...

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Quoted in 'The Girl Wanted', Nixon Waterman, Forbes & Company, 1913

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"How can my spirit  fitly sing the utter  Gladness of the Spring When every crocus cracks a clod bursts  its shell and shouts to God" Godfrey Blount by Godfrey Blount repr...

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In 1901 Blount is described as “urging the readers of the Clarion to pay more attention to Morris’s aesthethic theories.  In response, Julia Dawson helped to launch the Clarion Handicraft G...

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This silk panel that was auctioned in 2017 shows in my mind an influence from the Haslemere Peasants.  Vine leaves, grapes and deer, it has all the ingredients of Godfrey Blount's designs.  Mad...

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There is a letter on eBay that is currently for sale $500, you can purchase it here . Dated June 1913, on headed paper from the private members club, The Athenaeum, Pall Mall, the letter is add...

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This poem printed in The Vineyard, April 1913 reminds me of Ethel (Mrs Godfrey Blount) & Maude's presentation to the General Meeting of the the Peasant Arts Fellowship in 1912 (Caxton Hall, 28th...

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Greville MacDonald moved to Haslemere upon retirement and lived in Wildwood, a house on Weydown Road, which still bears this name today.  However, having looked at the electoral register for Gre...

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It is reported that Joseph King's grandfather founded the Liverpool Stock Exchange, The Provincial Stock Exchange (Thomas, William Arthur, Routledge, 2012) explains "Sing, White and Company wa...

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There were numerous lectures at the Independent Labour Party, Haslemere on Kings Road, held in Arthur Romney Green's workshop and showroom.  In addition to the Ramsay MacDonald and Joe St  Loe ...

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The editorial of The Vineyard (New Series, Christmas 1918) continues in it's explanation of why the movement used the word "Peasant" by explaining about their vision of the future 3 groups of pea...

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from The Vineyard, Christmas 1918 The phrase 'Haslemere Peasant Arts' tends to be met with puzzlement and derision, so what does the word peasant mean in this respect?  The Peasant Art move...

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Kelly’s Directory of Oxford, 1895 records Blount living in Nutlands, Kirtlington.  Blount was elected as a member of the Kirtlington Parish Council 1894, as written in my previous post here ....

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Mary Mudie wrote in The Vineyard in May 1914 the lead article entitled 'The Woman's Part in Peasant Life'.  This was the write-up of an "address given before the Peasant Arts Fellowship, March 1...

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I have been unable to find any direct reference between the Haslemere Peasants weaving on Kings Road, Haslemere and the manufacture of braid a few hundred metres further down the road at Appleton...

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In Volume 1 of The Vineyard, two of the frontispieces illustrations on January 1911 and February 1911, a photographs of Tolstoy.  The photos are both credited as having been taken by V. Tchertk...

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Greville MacDonald's article 'Christ and Machinery' was the lead article in The Vineyard, February 1912.  The reference to the factory and power-looms were of particular interest to me. "At fi...

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I have explored Arthur C. Fifield's links with Vladimir Chertkov (in my previous post ), Fifield being Godfrey Blount's publisher and joint beneficiary in Blount's will.  Greville MacDonald writ...

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After writing my previous post I have found this article online by Holman which gives more details of Arthur Fifield and Chertkov (‘Translating Tolstoy for the Free Age Press: Vladimir Chertk...

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