News From Nowhere

Please allow 10 working days to process before shipping Brown - Unstructured Hat  Buckled Closer - 100% Pigment Dyed Twill  "The past is not dead, it is living in us, and will be alive in the future which we are now helping to make."  William Morris was born in 1834 in Walthamstow, north London, into a wealthy middle class family. His father moved to London from Worcester in the 1820’s to join a firm of City stockbrokers. When William was ten his father acquired 272 £1 shares in a new Devonshire copper mining company. Within six months the shares, due to the discovery that the mines were richer than first believed, were worth £200,000 a fortune for those times. Of course, one consequence was that William and the rest of the family didn't have to worry about money. But Morris's father's 'good fortune' is also an indication of the economic and political changes that were being wrought in society. While William was growing up, British society was changing incredibly rapidly. The wat