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The Furniture History Society Newsletter is issued quarterly to all members.

The Newsletter contains short articles of scholarly interest, details on forthcoming events and other relevant items.

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The Newsletters currently available on this database cover the period from 2007, subject to a one-year rolling wall. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Society took the extraordinary decision to dispense with this rolling wall but as of May 2021, reverted to normal practice. 

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Newsletter / Published on Tuesday, 01 August 2023
Edition 231, August 2023

Articles include:

  • Adam Bowett: 'The Hardwick Hall Cupboards'
  • Bridget Griffin: 'Rediscovered: British and Irish Immigrant furniture makers in Early America 1700-1840'
  • Rebecca Unsworth: 'The Wilkinson Tracings'

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Newsletter / Published on Monday, 01 May 2023
Edition 230, May 2023

Articles include:

  • Tessa Murdoch: 'William Hogarth's take on Half-Mourning'
  • Laurie Lindey and Clarissa Ward: 'Recent discovery about the Trotter and Dowbiggin families'
  • J. Fronek: 'Tabernacle in the Shape of a Polygonal Temple'
  • Simon Swynfen Jervis: 'Two imaginary accounts and a symbolic chest'
  • Todd Gray: 'A Lost Mantelpiece from Barnstaple; where is it now?'

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