Royal College of Art

Suffragist historian Ray Strachey relates that AW jeopardized the prospects of women students at the South Kensington Art School when she was expelled for whistling.

The heroine is described as deriving from a long line of English gentry, Whig supporters of the Empire: a tedious race perhaps and pig-headed, tyrannical too here and there, but on the whole honourable English...

Margot Taylor (later UT ) held a scholarship which she won at the age of thirteen to the Royal College of Art in London.

By the age of sixteen, UT had begun receiving commissions for her sculptures and had rented a studio of her own in which to exhibit her works. The money she earned from these commissions gave...

FS 's father, Robert Stark , had left his family at Torquay in Devon to study art in Rome and was on a visit to his uncle's home near Florence, when he met his first...

Working at the Royal College of Art brought AQ into close proximity with pop art creators like David Hockney and Pauline Boty .

On leaving school at seventeen, AQ took a position as an assistant stage manager for a theatre company. She made coffee, sewed, scrubbed, and shifted scenery. After six weeks she had a row with the...

Having left St Anne's with the idea of securing more time for her writing, IM was a part-time lecturer in philosophy at the Royal College of Art in London.

IM regularly extended the hand of friendship to people in trouble. As a single example, JoŽe and Marija Jančar , Catholic Slovenes whom she met as displaced persons in Austria, turned to her for help...

IM rented a small flat in London when in 1963 she became a part-time lecturer at the Royal College of Art ; she slept there two nights a week. This was succeeded by other London...

An article by her in the People's Journal presages her later work on Wedgwood. Art in Spitalfields: A Tale chronicles the achievements of Sarah Chapman , who strove during the 1830s to establish education...

This novel grew out of Hot Milk Madonna (a short animated film which Levy co-directed with Pia Borg at the Royal College of Art in 2009). In it she sets out to address the dominant...

They had met in 1960 when Frances joined a group of Blake admirers involved with Michael's radical magazine, New Departures, which he had founded in 1959 and which he published and edited. New Departures

NH was a student at the London School of Art (then known as Brangwyn's after its most popular professor, Frank Brangwyn ).

NH 's friendship with a London School of Art student who was probably Paula Gellibrand (1890?-1964) brought her an invitation to spend two months in Russia over the summer.