Greg Jenner
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It's like his house is on fire.
It's like his house is on fire.
The thing that I find quite interesting is the arts and crafts ethos moves beyond Morris' control. You see that in music, you see that in comedy.
The thing that I find quite interesting is the arts and crafts ethos moves beyond Morris' control. You see that in music, you see that in comedy.
But we get a sense of an arts and crafts movement out of England into Scotland, into Wales, into Ireland, maybe internationally, I don't know.
But we get a sense of an arts and crafts movement out of England into Scotland, into Wales, into Ireland, maybe internationally, I don't know.
There's also another amazing... We've had some amazing names. We've already had Thomas Cobden Sanderson, who gave us the phrase Arts and Crafts Movement. But now I have to present to you Miss Eglantine Jebb.
There's also another amazing... We've had some amazing names. We've already had Thomas Cobden Sanderson, who gave us the phrase Arts and Crafts Movement. But now I have to present to you Miss Eglantine Jebb.
So Mrs. Eglantine Jebb is the... Eggie Jebb. Oh, I love Eggie Jebb. She sets up the Home Arts and Industries Association.
So Mrs. Eglantine Jebb is the... Eggie Jebb. Oh, I love Eggie Jebb. She sets up the Home Arts and Industries Association.
So we get the broadening out of the movement, the ethos, beyond the arts and crafts movement of William Morris' control. It gets into Edinburgh Social Union in 1885. It's in Ireland by the 1890s. It's really gone beyond his control, but in a good way. He's not trying to hold it.
So we get the broadening out of the movement, the ethos, beyond the arts and crafts movement of William Morris' control. It gets into Edinburgh Social Union in 1885. It's in Ireland by the 1890s. It's really gone beyond his control, but in a good way. He's not trying to hold it.
Yeah, which is amazing. There's one question I suppose we should address is that although there's the sort of democratic element of recruiting the boys from the school for the destitute and trying to bring women in, all of the artists we've met so far. Amen. Well, no, we've had good, really cool, but I'd say they're of a certain class.
Yeah, which is amazing. There's one question I suppose we should address is that although there's the sort of democratic element of recruiting the boys from the school for the destitute and trying to bring women in, all of the artists we've met so far. Amen. Well, no, we've had good, really cool, but I'd say they're of a certain class.
They shop at Waitrose, I think.
They shop at Waitrose, I think.
Yeah, a little bit. So I'm just I'm wondering if they walked the walk as well as talking the talk when it came to genuinely changing who could be an artist and who could buy this stuff. Is it middle class people for middle class people?
Yeah, a little bit. So I'm just I'm wondering if they walked the walk as well as talking the talk when it came to genuinely changing who could be an artist and who could buy this stuff. Is it middle class people for middle class people?
So a heart in the right place, I think, Cariad. Yeah.
So a heart in the right place, I think, Cariad. Yeah.