Journal

The Society’s journal Regional Furniture is published annually. It contains the latest research on British provincial and vernacular furniture and related subjects. The editor invites submissions from all contributors, whether you are a professional academic or interested amateur. See Guidelines for Contributors for further information.

Volume 39 – 2025 (to be published online 2028)

Ten Medieval Church Chests in Gloucestershire. Rachel Anna Sycamore
The Great Rebuilding and the Dated Cupboards of South Westmorland. Frank Wood and Adam Bowett
Francis Wingrave’s Windsor Chair. Christopher Claxton Stevens
The Chairmakers of Horncastle, Tattershall and Coningsby, and Sleaford, Lincolnshire. Julian Parker
Lady Louisa Harriet Cotes of Pitchford Hall: her Artist’s Table, by Gillows. Jeffrey Stern
Ernest Gimson Chairs: the Early Years, 1893–1903. Guy Poulter

The most recent three years’ issues are available to members only. Back issues are held at a number of libraries across the UK. For a comprehensive listing use this link to worldcat.org. The particular holdings, access, loan and reader arrangements will be specific to each institution.

The contents of the most recent issue are listed above; the contents of past volumes are listed here, on the back issues page. An Excel copy of the Journals index, which contains the links to the articles published on the back issues page may be downloaded here.

A consolidated Excel index to the Society’s Journal, Newsletter research articles and event reports, book reviews and obituaries may be downloaded here. The downloadable index contains additional coding by period, geographical region and furniture type which is not displayed in the tables on this website. These fields can be used to filter and explore the Society’s published material by subject, as well as by author, title, publication year and issue or volume.

I am grateful to Dr Adam Bowett for his kind assistance in devising the coding categories and for diligently combing through the Journal articles and coding them. I am grateful to ChatGPT for assisting me in applying and checking the coding across more than 1,000 Newsletter articles.

Julian Parker

Website Editor

10 August 2026

The coding categories used are:

Period: Before 1500, 16th century, 17th century, 18th century, 19th century, 20th century, and 21st century.

Region:

Central (Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire)

Channel Islands

East Anglia (Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire)

East Midlands (Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Rutlandshire)

General England

Ireland