The Regional Furniture Society Newsletter is published twice a year. It contains announcements about future events and research days, Chair’s reports, Council Members’ reports and notices, visit and event reports, short research pieces, book reviews, obituaries,  appeals and members’ correspondence.

The copy dates for the next two Newsletters are DD MM YY and DD MM YY. Please send MS Word files (without embedded images) and separate high-resolution images (jpegs or tiffs), preferably by email, to Linda Hall at newsletter.rfs@gmail.com.

Past research articles, visit and event reports, book reviews and obituaries which have been published in the newsletters between 1985 and 2026 have been scanned. They are made available on the website three years after the print publication is sent to members.

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

Midlands (Warwickshire, Worcestershire, Northamptonshire)

North Midlands (Derbyshire, Staffordshire, Nottinghamshire)

Northeast (Northumberland, County Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Yorkshire)

Northwest (Cumberland, Westmorland, Lancashire, Cheshire)

Overseas

Scotland

South (Kent, Sussex, Surrey, Middlesex, Hampshire, Berkshire, Isle of Wight)

Southwest (Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Bristol)

Wales

West Midlands (Herefordshire, Shropshire)

Furniture Type:

Architectural woodwork (Misericords, rood screens, choir stalls, doors, panels, pews, pulpits, lecterns)

Beds

Chests

Cupboards & Presses

Dressers

General furniture (including clocks, mirrors)

Other (Bookcases, boxes, caskets)

Other case furniture 

Other seat furniture

Tables, stands

Windsor chairs

Past print copies of the Newsletter are held at a number of  libraries across the UK and in the RFS Archive at The Museum of the Home. For a comprehensive listing use this link. The particular holdings, access, loan and reader arrangements will be specific to each institution. Now that the back archive has been scanned and made available via the links on this page, access is much simpler.