Keepsakes of Identity - Michele Walker 'Memoriam'
Quilt making fulfils a number of roles for the maker and society: the process of making may represent an act of rem…
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Victorian sentimental prints, drawings & watercolours
Scenes of tender feeling were popular during the Victorian period. They became associated with the home as they wer…
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Burial customs in China
The custom of burying grave goods with dead bodies lasted a long time, so the artefacts that remain range from Neol…
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Too big for his boots - Relocation of the Wellington Monument model
The British Galleries project has provided us all with an interesting range of objects, some with complex problems …
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Conservation of an English cadaver tomb
The effigy, dating from the 1450s, forms part of a tomb for John Baret and is on loan to the Museum for the exhibit…
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Room 125b: Birth, Marriage & Death
Objects relating to birth, marriage and death in Victorian Britain are on display in this room. Rigid social conven…
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Memory Maps
Memory Maps is about people and their relationship with place. It is about objects that are associated with particular areas as well as prints and paintings of named locations. But most importantly it is about writing about place. The Memory Maps project is a collaboration between Marina Warner, Professor of Creative Writing and her department at the University of Essex and the V&A. For this reason we have started by focusing on Essex.
Modern theatre: 20th-century Shakespeare
The Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon opened in 1879 and produced an annual summer Shakespeare season. When the theatre burnt down in 1926 it was replaced with a new building officially opened on Shakespeare's birthday in 1932. In 1960 the Royal Shakespeare Company was created from the resident company at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre under the direction of Peter Hall.
Memory Maps: 'The Edge of the Orison: In the Traces of John Clare's 'Journey Out of Essex'' by Iain Sinclair
Early on the morning of the 16th of July, 1837, Clare was led away from his wife and children, by two stern-looking men, who placed him in a small carriage and drove rapidly away southward. Late the same day, the poet found himself an inmate of Dr. Allen's private lunatic asylum, at Fair Mead House, High Beech, in the centre of Epping Forest.
Memory Maps: Historical writing about Essex
A small selection of historical texts connected to Essex.
Memory Maps: 'Roadworks' by Adrian May
In 1987, as a songwriter and solo performer on the folk music scene in England, I felt the need to find a new theme, something specific and focused... I began an unpublished group of verses about Essex, to be called, I thought, An Essex Guidebook.
A gift in your will
You may not have thought of including a gift to a museum in your will, but the V&A is a charity and legacies form an important source of funding for our work. It is not just the great collectors and the wealthy who leave legacies to the V&A. Legacies of all sizes, large and small, make a real difference to what we can do and your support can help ensure that future generations enjoy the V&A as much as you have.
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Quilts: 1700 - 2010 Commemorative Panel
Commemorative panel printed from an original textile piece by Natasha Kerr.
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