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Where the books were written, set, sold, printed and buried: from the Globe to the graves, the bookshops to the presses.
This season's book talks, festivals and exhibitions are in What's On: Books & writers
William Morris's last home, on the river at Hammersmith, where the Kelmscott Press was conceived and the socialists met in the coach house.
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Morris took the Georgian house on the Mall in 1878, named it after his Oxfordshire manor, and lived here until his death in 1896: News from Nowhere opens with its narrator waking in the house, and the Kelmscott Press, whose Chaucer is the most beautiful book printed in England, was run from a cottage a few doors along. The William Morris Society keeps the coach house and basement as a museum - the Albion press the Chaucer was printed on, original designs, printing blocks and books - and the coach house is the room where the Hammersmith Socialist Society heard Morris, Shaw and Kropotkin.
| Monday | Closed |
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| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | Closed |
| Thursday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Friday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Saturday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
| Sunday | 10:00 – 16:00 |
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