In a major new partnership, the V&A and BBC Four present Handmade in Britain, an ambitious season exploring the history of British decorative arts. The season continues in January 2013 with a three-part series about British woodwork.
Handmade in Britain: A BBC and V&A Partnership
In a major new partnership, the V&A and BBC Four present Handmade in Britain, an ambitious season exploring the history of British decorative arts. The season continues in …
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Handmade in Britain: Mobile Content
Handmade in Britain mobile web content has been developed by the V&A to enable visitors to find out more about many of the ceramics explored in the series.
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Handmade in Britain - Carved with Love - The Genius of British Woodwork: The Extraordinary Thomas Chippendale
The first programme in the series explores the life and work of one of the greatest designers of the eighteenth century, Thomas Chippendale.
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Handmade in Britain - Carved with Love - The Genius of British Woodwork: The Glorious Grinling Gibbons
The second programme celebrates Grinling Gibbons, the genius who transformed wood into pure art at the end of the seventeenth century.
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Handmade in Britain - Carved with Love - The Genius of British Woodwork: The Divine Craft of Carpentry
The final film in the series reveals the virtuosity of medieval ecclesiastic woodwork, and suggests that much of this art form was damaged or destroyed during the Reformati…
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Handmade in Britain - Episode One - Metalworks!: The Golden Age of Silver
The first film in the series traces the fortunes of silver in the 18th and 19th centuries, revisiting the designers and craftsmen that made British silver internationally r…
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Handmade in Britain - Episode Two - Metalworks!: The Knight's Tale
This film charts the extraordinary history of the Greenwich Armour workshops in the reigns of Henry VIII and his daughter, Elizabeth I.
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Handmade in Britain - Episode Three - Metalworks!: The Blacksmith’s Tale
The final episode in the series looks at British ironwork from the Middle Ages to the Victorian period.
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Handmade in Britain - Episode One - Ceramics: A Fragile History
The first programme of Handmade in Britain looks at the history of domestic pottery in Britain from the Tudor period onwards.
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Handmade in Britain - Episode Two - Ceramics: A Fragile History
The second programme charts the journey of Stoke-on-Trent, the heart of Britian's ceramics empire.
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Handmade in Britain - Episode Three - Ceramics: A Fragile History
The third programme explores the story of mass-produced pottery from the age of the Industrial Revolution to today.
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Handmade in Britain - Treasures of Chinese Porcelain
Lars Tharp, expert on Antiques Roadshow, sets out to explore why Chinese porcelain was so valuable then, and why it still is today.
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Handmade in Britain - Britain's Most Fragile Treasure
Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of the Great East Window at York Minster.
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This important book forms part of the Handmade in Britain partnership between the V&A and the BBC. Published as the culmination of a year-long sea…
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V&A Curator Joanna Norman discusses the ongoing V&A/BBC4 television series Handmade in Britain.
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