The Goldsmiths’ Company is pleased to announce that Dr Timothy Schroder has been elected Prime Warden. Dr Schroder, who previously served in the role during 2015-16, is the first Prime Warden to be appointed for a second term since 1951, when Walter Godfrey Allen served two consecutive years.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company Charity is pleased to partner with The Lord Mayor’s Appeal, to support Mental Health Awareness Week. The annual initiative set up by the Mental Health Foundation and to raise awareness of mental health and to inspire action to promote good mental health for all.
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Goldsmiths’ Fair and The Goldsmiths’ Centre will be hosting a series of events during London Craft Week (8 May – 12 May).
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17 schools competed in the regional finals of the first-ever Goldsmiths’ Company Community Engagement Awards this week, each vying for a place at the national finals in June.
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The Goldsmiths Company is pleased to announce that Dr Frances Parton has been appointed as Deputy Curator in the Collections Team and will be joining the Company on 11 March 2019.
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The presentation of the annual Awards of the Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Awards took place at the prestigious Goldsmiths’ Hall in London on Monday 25th February 2019.
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Past Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company, Bruno Schroder, has passed away aged 86.
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Over 10,600 Royal Mint coins went on 'trial' in London on Tuesday 29 January in one of Britain's oldest judicial processes – the Trial of the Pyx.
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The 2019 Trial of the Pyx will take place at Goldsmiths' Hall on 29 January.
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Distinguished jeweller, ceramicist, sculptor and Liveryman of the Goldsmiths' Company, Wendy Ramshaw CBE RDI passed away on Sunday 9th December after a long illness.
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References to assaying have been absorbed into our language, becoming subject to semantic change and acquiring wider cultural significance.
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Three young Goldsmiths’ Company apprentices have excelled in the Fine Jewellery Making category at The Skills Show.
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Some of the UK's leading silversmiths have once again produced Christmas decorations in time to decorate your tree!
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The Goldsmiths’ Company’s touring exhibition will be on display at Osterley Park from 5 November. Discover more about the Company's patronage of silver and the continuity of techniques.
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As we approach the centenary anniversary of Armistice Day, we have looked back through the Company minutes from the period of the First World War.
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The Lord Mayor of London and the Lady Mayoress called at Goldsmiths’ Hall this morning as part of their annual tour of Livery Halls
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A gift from the Goldsmiths’ Company Charity to support three new PhD studentships at Cambridge will advance research in precious metals and help develop new technical expertise.
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The largest display of British contemporary silver ever mounted in the USA, A Sterling Renaissance: British Silver Design 1957–2018 presents more than 100 items by thirty-five designer-silversmiths aged from their early 20s to their mid-80s.
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The distinguished jeweller and Liveryman of the Goldsmiths' Company, Paul Podolsky, has passed away aged 95.
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The existing Goldsmiths’ Hall was designed by Philip Hardwick and officially opened in 1835; it is the third Goldsmiths’ Hall on the site. Research and analysis informed proposals that were subsequently executed over two summer recesses by a team of skilled craftsmen and decorators.
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Jacobs the Jewellers and the Bishopsland Educational Trust, together with sponsors the Goldsmiths’ Centre and HS Walsh, announced the winners of the fourth year of the annual Young Designer Competition.
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Now in its 36th year, Goldsmiths’ Fair has built a solid reputation as the foremost destination for precious metal fine jewellery and contemporary silver.
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Michael Prideaux has been elected as Prime Warden of the Goldsmiths' Company for 2018-19
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The Goldsmiths’ Company will maintain the gilding on the Cutty Sark’s ‘Gingerbread’.
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A recording of the lecture given by Dr. Tristram Hunt, Director of the V&A, at Goldsmiths' Hall.
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On Tuesday 24 April, Baroness Rona Fairhead, Minister for Trade and Export Promotion attended the Private View for Grant Macdonald International Silversmith and officially opened the exhibition at Goldsmiths’ Hall.
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The Goldsmiths' Company Charity is proud to support London Youth - a growing, thriving network of 330 youth organisations serving young people across London.
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A recording of a talk held at Goldsmiths' Hall on the topic of Nelson’s Chelengk, one of the most iconic jewels in British history.
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The presentation of the annual Awards of the Goldsmiths Craft & Design Awards took place at Goldsmiths’ Hall in London on Monday 26th February 2018.
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We were delighted to welcome grant recipients from the Goldsmiths' Company Charity to Goldsmiths' Hall this week.
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One of the greatest treasures of the Goldsmiths’ Company Collection, the Royal Clock Salt, is on display in the Waddesdon Bequest Gallery at the British Museum.
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Celebrating 60 years of collaboration and continuous partnership between the Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council and Cartier in search of excellence.
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A new publication of over 500 pages, with hundreds of images of Devlin’s lifetime of work in the trade.
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As this month marks the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act, the law that gave the first women the right to vote in the UK, we look back at the history of women in the Goldsmiths’ Company.
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Approximately 25,000 coins produced by the Royal Mint in 2017 have been counted and scrutinised by a jury at Goldsmiths’ Hall in the City of London.
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In the run-up to Christmas, staff from the Charity team made a follow-up visit to the Blackpool headquarters of The Silver Line, the UK’s only 24/7, free, confidential helpline for lonely and isolated older people.
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Applications to exhibit at Goldsmiths’ Fair 2018 open today and close at 9am on 26 February.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company has appointed Dr Dora Thornton as Curator of its Collection of Antique and Contemporary Silver, Modern Jewellery, and Art Medals. She will take up her new role in March 2018
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The Goldsmiths’ Company and its affiliated Charity are delighted to pledge £10,000 to the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery’s appeal to acquire the Leekfrith Torcs, believed to be the earliest example of Iron Age gold ever discovered in Britain.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company has awarded Spark Inside £30,000 to support their coaching interventions in prisons.
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Three young Goldsmiths’ Company apprentices have topped the medals table in the Fine Jewellery Making category at The Skills Show, the nation’s largest skills and careers event.
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The event, staged at Goldsmiths’ Hall on the evening of Wednesday 15 November, drew attention to the importance of the independent British jewellery industry.
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Staff from the Charity team as well as Communications and Marketing, visited the Koestler Trust’s Inside exhibition at the Southbank Centre, London.
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Purchase silver Christmas tree decorations from the UK's leading silversmiths.
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The fourth edition of Make Your Mark, the UK’s biggest careers event for apprentices and students of jewellery and allied trades, proved a resounding success
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The Goldsmiths' Company has given a grant of £30,000 over three years to the Museum of London for the Special Education Needs and Disability (SEND) Programme
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Winners of the Make Your Mark Awards were announced at a drinks reception at Goldsmiths’ Hall on Tuesday 31 October 2017.
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More than half a ton of silver has been conserved ahead of the publication of a new book which details over 350 artworks in the Royal Collection.
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A residency programme focusing on chasing, engraving, enamelling and/or general silversmithing.
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Alexander Wood of the Goldsmiths’ Company Apprenticeship Scheme received a Medallion of Excellence for reaching the international standard in the Jewellery skills category at the 44th WorldSkills Competition in Abu Dhabi.
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The piece achieved a record-breaking figure of £72,500 for a contemporary silversmith at auction.
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The Wardens of the Goldsmiths’ Company have given a grant to the Wallace Collection for a new showcase to house the Shah Jahan dagger.
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HMS Prince of Wales, the second of the Royal Navy’s two future flagships being built by the Aircraft Carrier Alliance, was officially named on Friday 8 September during a ceremony in Rosyth, Scotland.
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The Goldsmiths’ Centre recognised for achieving training excellence with Princess Royal Training Award
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Two Ridings Community Foundation celebrated the award of a £100,000 grant from Goldsmiths’ Company Charity to help raise more funds for good causes across North & East Yorkshire.
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Applications are now open for the second Goldsmiths’ Company Assay Office’s Make Your Mark Awards.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company is delighted to support the International Conference on Technology of Plasticity.
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Daphne Krinos has created a unique diamond-set necklace for the Modern Jewellery Collection.
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Over the last year, the Goldsmiths' Company contributed more than £13 million to charitable and educational activities.
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An overview of the Company's activities for 2016-17, including a profile of Prime Warden Judith Cobham-Lowe.
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The Goldsmiths’ Craft & Design Council (GC&DC) has appointed a new Chairman for the next two years – renowned British silversmith Andrew Putland.
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The Goldsmiths' Company and its affiliated Charity have pledged £10 million to the Museum project.
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The Young Designer Competition jewellery and silver winners were announced on Friday 30 June.
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The New Designers Goldsmiths’ Company Awards were announced at the Business Design Centre, Islington on 28 June. The Goldsmiths’ Company is a leading sponsor of New Designers, the UK’s principal showcase of creative and innovative work from design graduates.
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The Queen’s Birthday Honours, published on 16 June, recognised the achievements of 1,109 extraordinary people from across the UK.
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HRH The Princess Royal presented the latest Goldsmiths’ Company Members’ Charitable Fund Young Apprentice of the Year Award, which recognises excellence in vocational skills and career progression, to former Goldsmiths’ Company apprentice, James Handyside.
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26 September – 1 October and 3 – 8 October 2017: this autumn sees the highly anticipated return of an ever more stylish Goldsmiths’ Fair.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company is delighted to support Jacobs the Jewellers’ Young Designer Competition.
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The Goldsmiths’ Company has made a major contribution to Westminster Abbey’s The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries, due to open in 2018.
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A new version of classic Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet for primary schools is the latest addition to the National Theatre’s On Demand in Schools service, which is supported by the Goldsmiths' Company Charity.
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Applications are now open to train with the country’s leading silversmiths, as part of the Goldsmiths' Company Studio Internship Graduate Award in 2018.
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