The Industrial Revolution May 25, 2008
Josiah Wedgwood sponsored the production of canals in the Midlands for the transportation of his pottery, to the extent that Birmingham has more canals than Venice. People were needed to man the factories so whole families decamped to the slums of the new cities, depopulating the countryside. (Suite101.com)
Silver: Paul de Lamerie from the Cahn Collection Apr 12, 2008
Czernis-Ryl compares de Lamerie also to "England's other great entrepreneurs of the Age of Enlightenment, Josiah Wedgwood and Matthew Boulton". In common with them, de Lamerie was a pioneer of what became the Industrial Revolution, operating a workshop or factory system with a retail arm; he also began by making all the works that bore his maker's mark himself, then devising a system whereby his designs were manufactured by other craftsmen working under his supervision. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Physic Garden source of famed Blue Willow motif Apr 10, 2008
It was the shape of the limbs of this tree that inspired Josiah Wedgwood to adapt it for his Blue Willow pattern of dinnerware. In other words, he took a cork oak tree and transformed it into a willow for the central theme of his most popular design. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Pele and Banks to meet in charity game Apr 5, 2008
The match is also intended to celebrate the lives of two famous sons of Stoke-on-Trent, Josiah Wedgwood and Stanley Matthews. Wedgwood helped end slavery while Matthews, who began his long and illustrious career at Stoke, taught children to play football in Soweto, South Africa. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- Sports)
Spring clean Mar 1, 2008
The founding father of the History of Parliament was a remarkable man named Colonel Josiah Wedgwood. Born in 1872, he was descended from the great 18th Century Staffordshire potter whose name he shared; and all his life, this latter-day Josiah, who was known to his many friends as Josh, was animated by a strong sense of family pride, and he also identified very powerfully with north Staffordshire, which Arnold Bennett made famous in his novels about the "five towns". (BBC News -- UK)
Mysteries of autoimmune diseases unravel Sep 4, 2007
"When you have type 1 diabetes, there's a relatively clear boundary between when you have it and when you don't," says Josiah Wedgwood, chairman of the Autoimmune Diseases Coordinating Committee at the National Institutes of Health. "With most of the other autoimmune diseases, there isn't a clear boundary like that. There's a problem called an ascertainment bias: You identify the sickest patients always, but like an iceberg, are you only looking at the surface? And what's beneath?". (USA Today)
Keeping it under their hats Mar 23, 2007
Josiah Wedgwood designed a much-used logo ... I am a descendent of Josiah Wedgwood, I am proud of his role in ending slavery - so much so that I have followed in his footsteps and have lent support to efforts to stamp out modern day slavery - such as sex trafficing. (BBC News -- UK)
Not-so magical memories Mar 18, 2007
Josiah Wedgwood, the pottery pioneer, made an engraving of a kneeling slave in chains with the words "am I not a man and a brother?" Reproduced in the thousands on medallions, hat pins and brooches, it was worn by fashionable supporters of the cause. In retrospect, the attitudes of some abolitionists now appear puzzling. (CNN -- International)
- Adrian Searle on Karen Kilimnik's weird connections Feb 22, 2007
From the outside, it looks like a Josiah Wedgwood Tardis, but at least once you are in there you can escape Kilimnik's paintings. Yet hark: there is a faint sound of singing, distant snatches of old movie dialogue, a clattering harpsichord, and what sounds either like a waterfall or next door's overflowing toilet cistern. (Guardian Unlimited)
Comment: Tristram Hunt Nov 26, 2006
Many of the activists were drawn from the Nonconformist movement (notably the Quakers) with Josiah Wedgwood designing the abolitionist badge bearing the slogan 'Am I Not a Man and a Brother. . (Guardian Unlimited)
Barkcloths to bewitch fans Jul 15, 2006
The Potters and Patronage in Georgian Times seminar will feature respected US ceramics historian and researcher Diana Edwards, who will deliver lectures on salt glaze influences on English creamware and on Josiah Wedgwood. UK expert Terence Lockett will talk about the development of British bone china - Bow to Rockingham. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
- Stuart Jeffries Jun 23, 2006
Priestley was a member of the Lunar Society, a group of industrialists and scientists (also including Matthew Boulton, Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood) who used to meet on nights when there was a full moon. They called themselves the lunaticks. (Guardian Unlimited)
Invisible city Mar 15, 2006
A dapper, twinkly-eyed 68-year-old, Yin is one of the nation's great industrial pioneers, the 21st-century Chinese equivalent to Titus Salt, Josiah Wedgwood or the Cadbury brothers. Imprisoned for much of the Mao era for his views on free speech and capitalism, he set up a motorcycle repair company in 1992 with nine staff. (Guardian Unlimited)
Inns of distinction Feb 11, 2006
In March 1765, the pub played host to a first meeting between Josiah Wedgwood, the potter, his partner Thomas Bentley, Erasmus Darwin, father of Charles, and the engineer James Brindley Leopard "on the subject of a Navigation from Hull... to Burslem", as Wedgwood put it in a letter he wrote on 11 March. The encounter resulted in plans for the cutting of the Trent and Mersey canal. (The Independent, UK)
