{"id":83,"date":"2013-06-08T21:22:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-08T21:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tilesoc.hostinguk.org\/tacs\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T15:50:48","slug":"tacs-journal","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tilesoc.org.uk\/tacs\/publications\/tacs-journal\/","title":{"rendered":"TACS Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The TACS Journal<\/strong> is an annual scholarly publication containing illustrated articles of original research, many covering subjects being studied for the first time.<\/p>\n

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Index to Glazed Expressions & TACS Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vol 30 2024:<\/strong><\/em> <\/em>Dr Ian Betts <\/strong>Syrian and Iranian tiles at Shottermill near Haslemere, Surrey \u2022<\/em> Rob Higgins <\/strong> Tiles from the Dovecot Studios \u2022<\/em> Hans van Gangelen and Frans Caignie<\/strong> A half Antwerp maiolica tile with an incomplete Flemish inscription excavated in London<\/p>\n

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Vol 29 2023: <\/strong><\/em>Dr Louise Boreham<\/strong> The Role of Louis Reid Deuchars in the Architectural Ceramics produced by the Compton and Aldourie Potteries \u2022<\/em> Dr Mario Baeck<\/strong> Iberian tile styles versus global taste: foreign influences in Spanish Modernismo and Portuguese Arte Nova wall tile production. \u2022<\/em> Agnese Tamabaka<\/strong> The Art Nouveau Tiles of Riga in the vestibules of tenement houses.<\/p>\n

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Vol 28 2022: <\/strong><\/em>Hans van Lemmen<\/strong> The two-volume catalogue of Ken Beaulah\u2019s tile collection \u2022<\/em> Rob Higgins<\/strong> The Birch Tile Companies of Stoke-on-Trent \u2022<\/em> Introduced by Hans van Lemmen<\/strong> Burmantofts in the 1880\u2019s – two accounts of visits to the works.<\/p>\n

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Vol 27 2021: <\/strong><\/em>Dr Aki Toyoyama<\/strong> Japanese Majolica Tiles in Colonial India \u2022<\/em> Dr Mario Baeck<\/strong> Tiles on Paper: The study of trade and tile catalogues \u2013 a useful key to understanding the design and use of 19th and 20th century floor and wall tiles \u2022<\/em> Dr Rob Higgins<\/strong> Insights from the TACS \u2018Tile File\u2019: The Rise and Fall and Rise of British Tile Making since 1820.<\/p>\n

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Vol 26 2020: Georgina Grant & Gillian Crumpton<\/strong> Schooling Good Taste: The Coalbrookdale School of Art 1856\u20131924 \u2022 Dr Alan Swale<\/strong> Influences and motivations: South Kensington terracotta constructions of the Department of Science and Art \u2022 Radhika Vaidyanathan<\/strong> British Tiles in Colonial Period Buildings in Southern India and Mumbai – <\/em>\u00a312.00 Buy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Vol 25 2019: Susan Darby <\/b>Richard Prosser (1804-1854) Engineer, Inventor and Patent Law Reformer \u2022 Hans van Lemmen<\/strong> Minton’s Prosser’s Patent Tiles 1840-1854 \u2022<\/b>Dr Mario Baeck<\/strong>\u00a0 The myth of an invention: the early developments of dust-pressed tile manufacturing on the European continent. – <\/em>\u00a312.00 <\/strong>Buy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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V<\/i>ol 24 2018: Susana Coentro; Rui A.A. Trindade;\u00a0<\/em>Rui C. da Silva and V\u00e2nia S.F. Muralha\u00a0<\/em><\/b>The techniques of Hispano-Moresque tiles: Examining the collection of the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Velha in Coimbra, Portugal\u00a0\u2022<\/strong>\u00a0Colin Fenn\u00a0<\/b>The last throw of clay: Sepulchral ceramics in England\u00a0\u2022\u00a0<\/strong>Annemie De Vos, Melissa Vandevijvere, Frans Caignie, Mario Baeck and Geert Van der Snickt\u00a0<\/b>Restoration of The Conversion of Saul: New techniques in the treatment of sixteenth century Antwerp tile panels.
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Vol 23 2017:\u00a0Hans van Lemmen <\/b>From over-glaze to under-glaze: British transfer-printed tiles 1756\u20131854\u00a0\u2022 Hans Theunissen & Hatice Ad\u0131g\u00fczel<\/strong> A Paradise for the Studious and Literary: the Dutch Tiles of the Rag\u0131b Mehmed Pasha Library\u00a0\u2022<\/b> Angela & Barry Corbett<\/strong> Lesser known pre-WWI artists at Pilkington\u2019s Tiles.
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Vol 22 2016: BURMANTOFTS decorative tiles for interiors
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Vol 21 2015: Paul Hardin Kapp and Gillian Crumpton <\/i><\/b>Industry and Art: The Jackfield Tile Museum and the John Scott Collection at the Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, Shropshire, England.<\/i> \u2022 Ian M Betts <\/b><\/i><\/strong>Edwardian and Later Lettered Tile Panels in Branches of W. H. Smith \u2022<\/i><\/b> <\/em>Ian M Betts <\/b>Decorative Tile Panels in Branches of W. H. Smith.
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Vol\u00a020 2014: Bart Verbrugge <\/b><\/strong>Delft Tiles Abroad De Porceleyne Fles Expansion into International Markets 1900-1940 \u2022\u00a0Mario Baeck <\/b><\/i>The Flourishing of Belgium Ornamental Tiles and Tile Panels in the Art Nouveau Period \u2022\u00a0Klaus Schiller <\/b><\/i>111 Years of Tile Production in Boizenburg: A Brief History of the Early Years.
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Vol 19 2013:\u00a0 Chris Blanchett<\/i><\/b> <\/strong>The Decorative Tiles of Frederick Garrard and John James Lewis \u2022\u00a0\u00a0Pedro Flor, Maria Joao Pereira Coutinho, Silvia Ferreira and Susana Varela Flor <\/i><\/b><\/strong>Rediscovering the Great Panorama of Lisbon in tiles \u2022<\/i><\/em>\u00a0Susana Varela Flor <\/i><\/b>Dirck Stoop (1618-1686) in Portugal: Paintings, Engravings and Tiles.
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Vol 18 2012:\u00a0<\/strong>The Journal: A Brief History \u2022<\/i>Penny Beckett <\/strong>The TACS Locations Database Project \u2022<\/i>\u00a0<\/em>Lynn Pearson <\/strong>The Karl-Marx-Alle, Berlin: A Pictorial Record \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Christopher R. Marsden <\/strong>Dorothy Annan and the Fleet Building Panels \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Lindsay Lennie\u00a0<\/strong>James Duncan Limited: Scotland\u2019s Tiler
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Vol 17 2011: Sheila Menzies and Joseph A.Taylor\u00a0<\/strong>Editorial \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Riley Doty <\/strong>British Tile Makers in the United States: 1910\u20131940 \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Mike Sims <\/strong>Robert Minton Taylor. A Life of Trials and Tribulations \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Barbara McMullen <\/strong>British Terracotta in Canada. Its Import and Use 1809\u20131931.
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Vol 16 2010:\u00a0<\/strong>Johan Kamermans\u00a0<\/strong>Trials of Technology: the attempt by the Dutch firm Rozenburg to adopt mass production techniques for tile making \u2022<\/i><\/em>Andrew Montgomery\u00a0<\/strong>Farrago 1909-10: Modernism in the satiric deconstruction of the English house \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Christopher R. Marsden <\/strong>Anything with Anything: An introduction to the art and craft of Alan Boyson.
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Vol 15 2009: Lindsay Lennie <\/strong>(Historic Scotland) The Tiled Shops of James Duncan Limited \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Barry and Angela Corbett <\/strong>Tile Designs by Lewis Foreman Day for Pilkington\u2019s Tile & Pottery Company \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Mario Baeck <\/strong>Ornamental Terracotta in Nineteenth Century France: Virebent of Toulouse \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Jaume Coll Conesa<\/strong> (Museum Director), The Museo Nacional de Cer\u00e1mica \u201cGonz\u00e1lez Mart\u00ed\u201d and Ceramic Tile Collecting in Valencia.
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Vol 14 2008:<\/strong> Peter Hyland<\/strong>\u00a0The Rescued Minton Tile Printing Plates at the Wedgwood Museum \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez Moreno<\/strong>\u00a0A Brief History of Talavera Tile Production: Tradition and Revival \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Mario Baeck<\/strong>\u00a0In accordance with archaeological handbooks: neo-gothic floors in the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Hans van Lemmen\u00a0<\/strong>Ceramic Follies.
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Vol 13 2007:\u00a0 Christopher R. Marsden\u00a0<\/strong>The Architectural Ceramics of Fritz Steller \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Maureen Devine<\/strong>\u00a0Aesthetic Chicago: Art Tiles of the Samuel M. Nickerson House \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Penny Beckett\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Unsung Pioneers: the founders of Gibbs & Canning, Terracotta Manufacturers<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Vol 12 2006:\u00a0Hans van Lemmen\u00a0<\/strong>An iconographic and iconological approach to tile analysis based on a study of the Edward the Confessor tile at Westminster Abbey \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Biddy Macfarlane\u00a0<\/strong>Donald Maxwell’s Domesday Tiles \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Mario Baeck\u00a0<\/strong>Cement tiles: An exploration \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Alastair Scott Anderson<\/strong> The South Building, Royal Observatory Greenwich: The Meeting of Art and Astronomy
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Vol 11 2005: <\/strong>Kathryn Ferry\u00a0<\/strong>Colour and Geometry: The Tile Designs of Owen Jones \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Laura Gardner<\/strong>\u00a0‘Domestic and Ecclesiastical Workmen’: W.B. Simpson and Sons \u2022<\/i> <\/em>John and Mary Bentley<\/strong>\u00a0Tiled Stove Manufacture in South Sweden \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Lynn Pearson<\/strong>\u00a0Decorative Tile and Terracotta Exports by British Manufacturers, 1840-1940.
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\"TACSVol 10 2004:\u00a0<\/strong>JULIE GILLAM WOOD <\/strong>Behind the Facade: An\u00a0Insight into Burmantofts’\u00a0Trading Ethos \u2022<\/i> <\/em>LYNN PEARSON\u00a0<\/strong>To Brighten the Environment:\u00a0Ceramic Tile Murals in\u00a0Britain 1950-70 \u2022<\/i> <\/em>JOHN PRICE<\/strong>\u00a0‘Everyday Heroes ‘: The\u00a0Memorial Tablets of\u00a0Postman’s Park \u2022<\/i> <\/em>PENNY BECKETT <\/strong>George Swift and Liverpool’s\u00a0Swan Tile Works.
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\"TACSVol. 9 2003: <\/strong>LINDA F. DYKE <\/strong>Henry Chapman Mercer’s Tile Collection \u2022 <\/i><\/em>LYNN F. PEARSON <\/strong>Memorial and Commemorative Tiles in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Churches \u2022<\/i> <\/em>MARGARET A.V. GILL <\/strong>A Munificent Benefaction: Godwin Tiles in St Peter’s Church, Hereford \u2022<\/i> <\/em>MICHAEL SIMS <\/strong>Gilbert Elliott and the Muskingum County (Ohio) Courthouse Floors.
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Vol. 8 2000:\u00a0<\/strong>ALAN SWALE <\/strong>Architectural Terracotta and Faience – a critical appraisal \u2022<\/i> <\/em>HANS VAN LEMMEN <\/strong>Tiles in Seville \u2022<\/i> <\/em>PETER WILLIAMS <\/strong>Floor Tiling in Saint Mary’s Church, Shrewsbury \u2022<\/i><\/em>\u00a0LYNN PEARSON <\/strong>Decorative Ceramics in the Buildings of the British Brewing Industry.
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Vol. 7 1998: <\/strong>GEOFFREY KAY <\/strong>The Peacock of Mysore – an account of the tiled floor of the Wedding Pavilion in the Mysore Palace, Karnataka State, India \u2022<\/i> <\/em>GRAHAM SCOTT <\/strong>The Dream of City Architecture Expressed in Colourful Ceramics – the theories and architecture of Halsey Ralph Ricardo \u2022<\/i> <\/em>HANS VAN LEMMEN<\/strong> A Special Series of Ravesteijn Delftware Tiles Made for Export to Britain \u2022 <\/i><\/em>BRUNO BENTZ AND DANIEL DUFOURNIER <\/strong>Chemical Analyses of Dutch Tiles from the Castles of Marly (Yvelines), Rocheclwuart (Haute-Vienne) and Labbeville (Vail-d’Oise ) \u2022<\/i> <\/em>ANDREW SKELTON <\/strong>The Carshalton Water Tower Tiled Bath – a study in Anglo-Dutch Tiles \u2022<\/i> <\/em>ROBERT HUNT <\/strong>On the Applications of Science to the Fine and Useful Arts Artificial Stone – Tessera, etc.
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Vol. 6 1996: <\/strong>CLEOTA REED <\/strong>A Discovery in Pennsylvania – The ‘Tiles’ Guardbook of John Gough Nichols \u2022<\/i> <\/em>CHRIS BLANCHETT <\/strong>The Tiles of Dorchester Abbey \u2022<\/i> <\/em>JANET DOUGLAS <\/strong>Patronage and Politics in a Leeds Parish – The Story of the Brangwyn Mosaics in St. Aidans Church, Harehills \u2022<\/i> <\/em>DOUGLAS VAN DER HORST <\/strong>Architectural Ceramics in South Africa – The Products of Olifantsfontein.
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Vol. 5 1994: <\/strong>JOHN CHERRY <\/strong>The Creation of the Medieval Tile Collection in the British Museum, 1851 to 1866 \u2022<\/i> <\/em>JANE COCHRANE <\/strong>Medieval Tiled Floor Patterns \u2022<\/i> <\/em>REVD JOHNS REYNOLDS <\/strong>Alfred Reynolds and the Block Process \u2022<\/i> <\/em>CONRAD BIERNACKI <\/strong>Wedgwood Tiles: the Thomas Allen \/ Albert Moore Link \u2022<\/i> <\/em>JOAN SKINNER <\/strong>The Fancy Factories of Wallis, Gilbert & Partners.
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\"TACSVol. 4 1992:<\/strong>GRAHAM D KEEVILL <\/strong>An Introduction to Romano-British Brick and Tile \u2022<\/i> <\/em>J STOPFORD <\/strong>The Yorkshire Medieval Tile Project \u2022<\/i> <\/em>GK B EAULAH <\/strong>Encaustic Tiles – a 19th Century Viewpoint \u2022<\/i> <\/em>GEOFFREY KAY <\/strong>Charles Lynam – an Architect of Tile Factories \u2022<\/i> <\/em>LAWRENCE D BURTON <\/strong>William Burton and Pilkington’s Tiles Limited.
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V\"TACSol. 3 1990: <\/strong>Shirley Strachan <\/strong>Henry Powell Dunnill: a Victorian Tilemaster \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Kevin Gannon <\/strong>Refuge Assurance Company Offices, Manchester \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Miranda F Goodby <\/strong>George Tinworth: an Artist in Terracotta \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Hans van Lemmen <\/strong>Children’s Games on Dutch Delftware Tiles \u2022<\/i> <\/em>G K Beaulah <\/strong>FSA Samuel Wright of Shelton and his Tiles.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"TACSVol. 2 1987: <\/strong>Richard Myers <\/strong>Murray Marks and Thomas Elsley, Importers of Dutch Tiles \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Dr Francis Celoria <\/strong>Contributions towards working definitions of the word ‘Terracotta’ \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Alan Swale <\/strong>The Terracotta of the Wedgwood Institute, Burslem \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Peter and Diana Clegg <\/strong>Discovering the Decorative Art Tile Company.
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Vol. 1 1982: <\/strong>Hans van Lemmen <\/strong>Nineteenth-Century Dutch Tiles \u2022 <\/i><\/em>Betty Greene <\/strong>The Godwins of Hereford \u2022<\/i> <\/em>Richard & Hilary Myers <\/strong>Morris and Company Ceramic Tiles\u00a0 \u2022 <\/i><\/em>G .K. Beaulah <\/strong>Tiles of rhombic shape at Thornton Abbey with notes on some others
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Publications Index<\/strong><\/a>
Index to Glazed Expressions &<\/strong><\/p>\n

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