Most popular articles on this website include

Life & Family

• Ellen Mary Rope, Marga’s aunt: sculptor and New Woman
• Margaret Edith (Aldrich) Rope – the other Margaret Rope
• The Reverend Father Henry (Harry) Rope: Marga’s brother, scholar & poet
• Soul Belfry – a study of the collection of poems written by Fr Harry Rope
• Irene Rope – the sister who went to war
• A Child-Abuse case, the NSPCC and Dr Henry Rope
• Did Margaret’s grandfather Edward Burd oppose her Catholicism?
• Margaret’s Big Decision: Converting to Catholicism
• Margaret’s extraordinary aunt, Constance Burd
• The Ropes of Suffolk
• Crispin Rope the Philanthropist – and Margaret’s nephew
• Moriarty of Shrewsbury – Margaret’s mentor and patron
• Clues about Marga’s ‘best friend’ Peg Poore
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• Family & Friends – buried in Shrewsbury Cemetery
• Sister Margaret’s final resting place – Quidenham
• A radical artist – from a conservative background
• The Oxton Virgin Mary – a “fearless young woman”
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• Early mentions of “Miss Margaret Rope” in 1905
• Margaret Rope’s early use of nude models
• A workshop-tool belonging to Marga gives a link to the past
• Christmas in the Rope family household
• Marga’s restoration work at Shrewsbury Museum

MA Rope’s Art-Works

• The symbolic meanings of Marga’s colours
• The Heckmondwike windows and their GK Chesterton connection
• The Blaxhall Church windows
• Portraying the Martyrs, in Oxton – the value of research
• Colour in Marga’s stained glass – especially orange
• The mystery of the secret curate in Shrewsbury Cathedral
• The Soldier Window in Shrewsbury Cathedral
• Margaret Rope’s war memorial windows  
• The Ralph Sherwin window – a family affair
• The Birds in Margaret Rope’s works
• The St Winefride window in Newport – a new study by Roger Hall
• ‘The City of God’ and its appearances in Margaret’s windows
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• Judith & Holofernes found in a bathroom
• Judith & Holofernes installed in Shrewsbury Museum
• Marga’s “ferocious self-caricatures”
• Monsignor John Hawes – the Australian connection
• Marga’s windows in Geraldton Cathedral, Australia
• Whether to sign windows – or not
• Margaret Rope’s annoying chin  
• The missing windows – disputed or unseen works by Marga
• Missing Windows – now rediscovered
• On the trail of the missing Lanark window
• The Saint Francis window – lost, then found
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• ‘Welle Of Love’ and ‘Goblin Market’ bought by museums (2014)
• Marga and Christina Rossetti – the story of Goblin Market
• St John Fisher and the Severed Head
• The mysterious knight at Hoylake
• Margaret’s Saint Margaret

MA Rope in Art-History

• ‘Arts and Crafts Stained Glass’ – book by Peter Cormack (2015)
• Publication of a new photo-book of Margaret Rope’s work
• Roger Hall’s Guide To Shrewsbury Cathedral’s Windows is back in print
• Catholic converts in the Arts 1880-1920
• How ‘Arts & Crafts’ was Margaret Rope?
• The Woman Question – women in stained-glass 1890-1930
• Mary Lowndes – artist, businesswoman, suffragist and friend of Margaret
• The re-interpretation of Shrewsbury’s ‘Congress Window’
• “Female artists are neglected by art-history and museums”
• A home for Margaret’s papers – the new Rope Archives

Arts & Crafts Movement

• Karl Parsons – contemporary and colleague
• Shropshire church stained-glass by a Marga contemporary, Mary Newill
• Henry Payne, artist and Marga’s professor
• Review of Women Arts & Crafts Art Workers by Zoe Thomas

Shropshire

• Shrewsbury Cathedral – omitted from the town map!
• The Orchard Cafe at Shrewsbury Cathedral
• Renovations at Shrewsbury Cathedral (2017)
• Scenes of Shropshire & Shrewsbury in glass
• The visitor-friendly Cathedral West Windows
• The Nativity Altar-Front at Shrewsbury St Mary’s
• Poetry inspired by Margaret Rope’s works
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• Ellen Mary Rope’s Triptych – and How It Was Saved
• Finding Marga’s Shrewsbury studios
• Georgie Gaskin: Shrewsbury’s other Arts & Crafts great
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• The St Nicholas window at Newport RC Church
• The golden balls of the St Nicholas window in Newport
• King Henry V – and Saint Winifrede
• Saint Winefride, Shrewsbury and Margaret Rope
• The Nativity Altar-Front at Shrewsbury St Mary’s
• Why does the definitive work – ‘Churches Of Shropshire’ – ignore Marga?
• Shropshire’s greatest artists
• Strachan’s Arts & Crafts treasure – in a small Shropshire village

New Profile

• The Margaret Rope Retrospective Exhibition
• The Margaret Rope Retrospective Exhibition – on film
• Review of The 2016 Margaret Rope Exhibition at Shrewsbury Museum
• A major light show celebrates Margaret Rope
• Christmas cards of Margaret Rope designs for sale
• New photo-book, of works by both Margaret Ropes, published
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The ‘Woman Question’

• Ellen Mary Rope, Marga’s aunt: sculptor and New Woman
• The Woman Question – women in stained-glass 1890-1930
• The Oxton Virgin Mary – a “fearless young woman”
• Judith & Holofernes – The Power Of Woman
• Review of Women Arts & Crafts Art Workers by Zoe Thomas

Misc…

• BBC ‘Woman’s Hour’ reports
• Randolph Caldecott – Shropshire’s adopted artist