GRANTS GIVEN BY
THE ALBERT DAWSON EDUCATIONAL TRUST

2005 ONWARDS

  • Since 2005 the Trust has awarded an annual grant towards the publication costs of the Journal of the Decorative Arts Society (DAS)

2006

  • Grant to The Watts Gallery towards production cost of the Illustrated booklet to accompany their exhibition onThe Compton Pottery.

2009

  • Grant to Lutterworths to support the printing costs of a book on Henry Wilson by Dr Cindy Manton.

2010

  • Grant to DAS. Payment in satisfaction of a guarantee given in support of ticket sales for a seminar held with the V&A on The Display of Decorative Arts in Museums.

2020

  • Grant to The Bowes Museum’s exhibition “Pre-Raphaelite Knights Re-inventing the Medieval World”. Grant towards display stands and educational interactive items, including an interactive jigsaw of stained glass “Young Saint in Armour”, and various pieces of reproduction armour for visitors to try on.

2022

  • Grant to Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum in support of their exhibition Modern Pre-Raphaelite Visionaries. A grant to cover packing and transport of a picture offered on loan.
  • Grant to The Furniture History Society in support of work by BIFMO (British & Irish Furniture Makers Online) to digitise the entire series of catalogues issued by the Arts & Crafts Exhibition Society, including all media exhibited as well as furniture, with complete index, to make them available as an online resource.
  • Grant to Unicorn Press in support of publication costs of “A Singular Man”, a book on the life and work of Frederick Sandys by Betty Elzea.

2023

  • Grant to the Ashmolean Museum in support of the exhibition “Colour Revolution”
  • Grant to the University of Leeds, Brotherton Library to cover the cost of archiving the records of the collection of Peter Rose and Albert Gallichan
  • Grant to Emery Walker Trust in support of publication costs of book on the life of Sir Emery Walker by Helen Elletson
  • Grant to The Attingham Trust to fund 3 scholarships on the Study Programme “Arts & Crafts Houses and Gardens” September 2024
  • Grant to Yale University Press in support of publication costs of a book “Standen: The Arts and Crafts Masterpiece of Philip Webb and Morris and Co” with the involvement of the National Trust

  • Grant to Yale University Press in support of the cost of obtaining images for a book “Fashioning Liberty” by Anna Buruma.

  • Grant to Yale University Press to support digitalization of Liberty Mail Order Catalogues 1883(approx.) to 1920

2024

  • Grant to the David Parr House to fund a Guide Book to the house, recording the life and work of David Parr.
  • Grant to The Ashmolean Museum to support the publication of a book on May Morris Embroideries by Lynn Hulse.

  • Grant to Leighton House in support of the publication costs of the catalogue of the “Leighton and Landscape” Exhibition in November 2024

  • Grant to Peyton Skipwith to fund the cost of photos of Madresfield Chapel etc as part of his research into Earl Beauchamp’s patronage of the Arts and Crafts movement for a forthcoming book or series of articles.

  • Grant to Dr Peter Lindfield to part-fund his book “George Shaw (1810-76): Diaries and Letters of an Architect, Antiquary and Forger”

  • Grant to Dr Caroline Dakers to fund images in an online free publication by UCL Press on Alfred Morrison 1821-1897 edited by Dr Dakers.

  • Grant to The Victorian Society to cover the cost of certain illustrations in “The Rogue Goths” by Edmund Harris.