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This website is the result of work by a large group of people who worked to create it between 2005 and 2007. The site has been made possible due to a bequest from the estate of the Late Daphne Plunket, and provides a detailed history about Ernest Gimson and the Arts & Crafts Movement in Leicester.

 

Leicester Arts and Museums Service would like to thank:

 

Rowan Roenisch

Marilyn Switzer

Ian Collins

Thomas Douglas

Carlianne Matthews

Thomas Richards

Colette Sotrines

Leicester University

De Montfort University

Loughborough University

Blackwell House

Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum

Chris Vickers (Arts & Crafts craftsman)

Lawrence Neal (Arts & Crafts craftsman)

 

Leicester Arts and Museums Service would also like to thank all of the people who have helped to source images, provided their stories and helped to organise photo shoots.

 

David Orton, Project Co-ordinator

Mary Greensted, Text author

Kerem Cetindamar, Photographer and website assistant

Millie Smith, Steering Group Chair & President of the Friends of Leicester and Leicestershire Museums

2007