In a major new partnership, the V&A and BBC Four present Handmade in Britain, an ambitious year-long season exploring the history of British decorative arts. The season begins this autumn with a three-part series on British ceramics.
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 year-long season explori…
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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…
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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 perio…
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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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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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Treasures of Chinese Porcelain
Lars Tharp, expert on Antiques Roadshow, sets out to explore why Chinese porcelain was so valuable then, and why it…
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Britain's Most Fragile Treasure
Historian Dr Janina Ramirez unlocks the secrets of the Great East Window at York Minster.
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The formation of the Ceramics collections
The collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum are, in the fields of post-Medieval European, Middle Eastern and …
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Masterpieces of ceramics through the ages
The ceramics collections at the V&A are one of the finest in the world. Featuring 116 masterpieces from this extens…
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Poems about the V&A: 'Little song' by Deborah Tyler-Bennett
As part of the Creative Writing in Museums website feature, Deborah Tyler-Bennett was asked to write two poems insp…
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Architectural history of the V&A 1863–1873
Francis Fowke was a consummate forward-planner. Even before the North and South Courts had been roofed in, he had w…
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Handmade in Britain (Available to pre-order, due October 2012)
Accompanies the Handmade in Britain V&A collaboration with the BBC
Buy nowEvent - Recording Britain: Constable and his Contemporaries
Thu 28 June 2012 13:00
GALLERY TALK: Constable painted his 'own places best'. Discover what the artist thought about these places and how accurately he recorded these areas in comparison to how some of his contemporaries painted Britain.
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