Faces Behind the Furniture, 1500-1914

Explore BIFMO to discover the people who worked in the British and Irish furniture trades over four hundred years.

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A map segment from Layers of London

Published: 9 October 2019

Mapping 2750 furniture makers on Layers of London

Front of Gardner trade card

Published: 24 July 2019

British & Irish Furniture Makers Online Conference 2019

Farringdon Ward Within and Castle Baynard Ward

Published: 24 July 2019

Women working in the furniture trade in early modern London

Trade card of John Giles and Shadrach Mulline

Published: 20 May 2019

A Brass and Cabinet Founder in Early Modern London

Ham House network diagram - centre close up

Published: 16 April 2019

'British and Irish Furniture Makers Online': new ways of seeing the past

Christopher Gibson trade card

Published: 3 August 2017

Furniture history: the digital future

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