Financial Times Feature: The silversmiths strike back

Deep in the Oxfordshire countryside, Bishopsland school is reviving a great British craft

On the misty fields surrounding the Thames near William Morris’s Kelmscott Manor, a Grade II-listed farmyard is experiencing a rebirth. Where, a few months ago, a mountain of brambles hid a courtyard of derelict cow byres and stables, a sequence of studios now glows in the soft autumn light. Bishopsland, an educational charity established in 1993 to offer emerging silversmith artisans a bridge between higher education and earning a living as professionals, has just moved home… READ FULL ARTICLE HERE