BBC Radio 4 starting Monday 12th November  09:45 to 10:00 Book of the Week - Augustus Pugin.

Rosemary Hill's biography of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, one of Britain's greatest architects, abridged in five parts by Doreen Estall and read by Haydn Gwynne.

Opening hours: daily from 10am – 4pm. Admission, £3 in aid of St John Ambulance. Prinknash Abbey is off the A46 near Painswick, Gloucestershire. Follow brown signs to Prinknash Abbey Park. Parking and refreshments are available.

Hand, Heart and Soul: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Scotland - Exhibition at Millennium Galleries Sheffield 25 October to 20 January 2008

Millais - Exhibition on the founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at Tate Britain from 26 September to 15 January 2008. Tel: 020 7887 8888 www.tate.org.uk 

It is planned to extend the galleries to show a few pictures of every visit (where possible) from now on.

In part to celebrate 150 years since Voysey's birthday on the 28th May 1857, and also as much of Chris' work is inspired by, and to the designs of CFA Voysey, he has re-launched his website featuring many designs and details by Voysey.

BBC 2 on Wednesday 30th May at 19:00 - Jonathan Meades: Abroad Again - Letchworth.

Heaven: Folkwoven in England.
Jonathan Meades tells the story of Letchworth, the first British garden city. A social experiment, its legacy is Britain's ubiquitous, banal sprawl. Yet it all started so charmingly with naked dew-bathers, vegetarian mystics and sandal-makers roaming through Hertfordshire clay fields.

A project is being established to study the history of Newlyn copper and to bring together pictures, documents and oral history of this important Arts and Crafts venture. The outcomes of the project would be to increase public access to and enjoyment of the history and cultural significance of Newlyn copper, promoting exhibitions, web based information and a publication to capture and illustrate the Newlyn story. Download the newsletter in PDF format (920Kb).

The selling exhibition has part emphasis on CFA Voysey and AW Simpson of Kendal, as coincidentally it is the 150th anniversary of both men's birth.

BBC 4 on Sunday 20th May at 20:00 - Edwin Lutyens Master Architect.

As part of their Edwardians season, the BBC are showing architecture critic Patrick Nuttgens' 1981 documentary on the architect Sir Edwin Lutyens, exploring the plans and buildings of the man who designed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and the city of New Delhi.

The variety of exhibits, from stained glass windows, enamels, tapestries, domestic furniture and homewares, filmed interiors, architectural plans, illustrated books and garden furniture will provide audiences with many routes of interest and much to admire. For enthusiasts, the exhibition will offer the opportunity to view key items as well as works rarely seen in public.

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ACMS members Chris and Jenny Vickers are holding their annual selling exhibition this year from 9 to 18 March. Download more details and also see their website which shows their furniture and metalwork in the Arts & Crafts Style made to commission or from stock.

Augustus Pugin designed the Houses of Parliament. He designed cathedrals, churches and grand country houses. He created furniture, lighting and wallpaper. His mid-19th-century ideas about what ordinary houses should look like are hugely influential today.

Details of the Spring 2007 events programme are now available on the Diary page.

The award will provide the foundation stone of the £10m Hope Appeal to save the Gallery. The Gallery has already reached over £1m of pledges and gifts, but still needs to continue fundraising. If you would like to make a donation online now to the Hope Appeal please go to www.justgiving.com/wattsgallery.

The Spring 2007 lecture programme is now available on the Diary page.

A Frank Brangwyn event added to the Autumn programme.

The Autumn lecture programme is now available.

The Autumn events programme is now available.

The Watts Gallery

VOTE Watts Gallery on Sunday 17 September

The Watts Gallery

There will also be a Restoration Roadshow at the gallery on Sunday 30 July 10am-6pm.

The Annual General Meeting for the Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey will be held on 24 May at the Tilford Institute. The meeting will be followed by an illustrated presentation "The Hope appeal and Watts Gallery past, present and future".

The Arts and Crafts Movement in Surrey is pleased to highlight the appeal by the Guild of Handicraft Trust to create a museum of Craft and Design from the Arts and Crafts movement onwards at Court Barn in Chipping Campden.

Launch of a new publication: Watts Gallery - A personal view by Richard Jeffries. Memories from his twenty years as curator, and comments on paintings and sculptures in the collection.

For more details, go to the Publications page.

Can you identify this house? We have had an enquiry from Tallahassee in Florida where the owner of this house, a copy of one believed to be in Surrey, would like to locate the original.

The full list of books available to purchase at ACMS events is now shown on the Publications page.