In 1787, entrepreneurial potter Josiah Wedgwood (1730 – 95) produced a ceramic medallion in support of the abolition of the slave trade. A forerunner of the protest badge, Wedgwood's anti-slavery ...

Released today, it celebrates the launch of its latest offbeat collaboration, a line of tongue-in-cheek table- and teaware created with historic china and porcelain producer Wedgwood. The range, which ...

Wedgwood understood how to appeal to the social aspirations of the middle classes. Now they too could drink from the same china as the Queen. Wedgwood’s genius was to understand the power of ...

Portrait of Josiah Wedgwood I, by Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1782, England. Museum no. WE.7851-2014. © Fiskars Josiah Wedgwood I declared in 1769 that his aim was to ...

Josiah Wedgwood was born into a family of potters on 12 July 1730, at Burslem, Staffordshire. His father's death in 1739 led him to an early start working as a 'thrower' in the pottery of his ...