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Annual Report and Accounts

Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2019

Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st December 2018

Annual Report and Accounts for the year ending 31st December 2017

 

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Recent Posts

  • Eve Eunson: Fair Isle Chairs on display in Da Gadderie, Lerwick
  • Lecture – Sunday, 22 November 2020, 19:00 (GMT): Wilhemina Castelijns – Transforming a Town Hall into a Royal Palace: Empire Furniture in Amsterdam
  • Décoration intérieure et plaisir des sens (1700-1850) 3 and 4 December 2020 online
  • Lecture – Sunday, 8 November 2020, 19:00 (GMT) – Reattributing the Chippendale Daybeds at Stanway House: the case for Scottish furniture makers Alexander Peter and William Mathie by Dr Sebastian Pryke
  • Claudia Kinmonth’s Irish Country Furniture and Furnishings 1700-2000: Signed copies and a 20% Discount for RFS members

Useful links

Sites of Regional Furniture Interest
Lincolnshire Windsor & Rush-seated Chairs
Directory of 19th century furniture makers
Peter Follansbee – Joiner
James Reilly chairs
Lincolnshire chairs on Flickr
Philip Clissett
Furniture from Early Modern Scotland

Organisations and Societies
Vernacular Architecture Group
Tools and Trades History Society
United Kingdom Institute for Conservation
The British Antique Furniture Restorers’ Association
The British Antique Dealers’ Association
The Association of Art and Antique Dealers 
The Furniture History Society 
The Antiquarian Horological Society
The Pewter Society
The Churches Conservation Trust
The National Trust
English Heritage
The Association of Polelathe Turners and Greenwood Workers

Museums & Collections
Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
Museum of the Home (formerly Geffrye Museum)
Victoria and Albert Museum
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
Wycombe Museum
The Frederick Parker Collection
St Fagans National History Museum
Ceredigion Museum
Glasgow Museums
The Burrell Collection (Furniture)

Research Resources
British and Irish Furniture Makers Online
The National Archives
British Library
Institute of Historical Research
Economic History Services
Access to Archives (A2A) 
Old Bailey Online
People’s Collection Wales

 

Publications

Cover 2014_Page_1
Journal 1995
Newsletter Spring 2014
Cover 2015
RFS Newsletter Spring 2013 1
RFS NL 59 page 1
RFS Autumn 2014 newsletter cover (large)
Cover 2013
RFS Journal 2012
RFS Newsletter Autumn 2012_Page_1
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