Journal back issues

The current issue (Volume 39 – 2025) of Regional Furniture is only available to RFS members, but back issues are published on this website after a three year delay. You can read these online, download or print them free of charge using the links below. An Excel copy of this index, which contains the links to the articles published on this page may be downloaded here.


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

Volume 38 – 2024 (to be published online 2027)

  • Posts, Rails, Ropes and Bed Bolts: the Early Development of the English Bed. Aidan Harrison
  • The Saga of Viking Lakeland and the Sources of Lake District Furniture Carving. Adam Bowett and Frank Wood
  • John Boucher (1825–1911), Estate Joiner. Peter Brears
  • A Scottish ‘Grecian Elbow Chair’: an Execution and a Myth. Elizabeth Hancock
  • Furniture and Architecture Design Books Owned by Gillows of Lancaster, 1726–1854. Susan Stuart
  • The Gillows Sarcophagus: Veneers of Sorrow, Cellars of Wine. Susan Solny

Volume 37 – 2023 (to be published online 2026)

  • An Open Legacy: Christopher Pickvance’s Writings on Furniture, 2007–2022. Nick Humphrey
  • Regional Characteristics of Seven Dug-out Church Chests in Herefordshire and Worcestershire: A Dendrochronological and Comparative Study. Rachel Sycamore
  • A Renaissance Screen at Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire. Nicholas Riall
  • Samuel Treacher and Thomas Widgington, Pioneers of High Wycombe Chairmaking? Margaret Rayner and Adam Bowett
  • A Lancaster Cabinet-Makers’ Adventure to Southampton in 1770. Susan Stuart
  • Chairs Made in Sussex and the William Morris Sussex Chair. Guy Poulter
  • Early-Twentieth-Century Rush Seat Chairs from Heal & Son Ltd. Oliver Heal

Volume 36 – 2022 (to be published online 2025)


Volume 35 – 2021 


Volume 34 – 2020 


Volume 33 – 2019


Volume 32 – 2018


Volume 31 – 2017


Volume 30 – 2016


Volume 29 – 2015


Volume 28 – 2014


Volume 27 – 2013


Volume 26 – 2012


Volume 25 – 2011 


Volume 24 – 2010:


Volume 23 – 2009:  A Biographical Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Antique and Curiosity Dealers, Mark Westgarth


Volume 22 – 2008: London Furniture


Volume 21 – 2007: furniture in churches


Volume 20 – 2006: the 2006 Journal was entitled A Dictionary of Norfolk Furniture Makers, 1700-1840 by John Stabler.  It is also available in book form; for further details see here.


Volume 19  – 2005


Volume 18 – 2004


Volume 17 – 2003: The 2003 Journal was titled Roger Warner: Memoirs of a Twentieth Century Antique Dealer. It is also available in book form at the price of £20.00.


Volume 16 – 2002 : The 2002 Journal focused upon Scottish furniture comprising five articles of original research into furniture connected to Scotland, and a complete reprint of ‘The Glasgow Cabinet Maker’s Book of Prices’ 1806.


Volume 15 – 2001


Volume 14  – 2000 


Volume 13 –  1999


Volume 12 – 1998:  the 1998 Journal concentrated on the work of Gillow’s of Lancaster 


Volume 11 – 1997


Volume 10 – 1996


Volume 9 – 1995


Volume 8 – 1994


Volume 7 – 1993: An Anthology of Regional Furniture with Maker’s Identification


Volume 6 – 1992


Volume 5 – 1991


Volume 4 – 1990


Volume 3 – 1989


Volume 2 – 1988


Volume 1 – 1987