The Birmingham Set, sometimes called the Birmingham Colony,[1] the Pembroke Set or later The Brotherhood, was a group of students at the University of Oxford in England in the 1850s, most of whom were from Birmingham or had studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham.[2] Their importance as a group was largely within the visual arts, where they played a significant role in the birth of the Arts and Crafts Movement: The Set were intimately involved in the murals painted on the Oxford Union Society in 1857, and members William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Charles Faulkner were founding partners of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1861.
- ^ Naylor 1971, p. 96
- ^ MacCarthy, Fiona (2004), "Morris, William (1834–1896), designer, author, and visionary socialist", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Online ed.), Oxford University Press, retrieved 4 June 2011