The materials on the BIFMO website are subject to copyright protection under the UK Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This gives the copyright owner the exclusive right to restrict certain uses of the materials, subject to specific statutory exceptions that apply provided there is fair dealing by the user.

All content on the BIFMO website has been made available by the Furniture History Society for use in non-commercial research, teaching, and private study. You may, subject to fair dealing, reproduce (print, make photocopies, or download) materials from this website for these purposes without prior permission on the condition that you properly cite the copyright source in all copies. (Please see examples below).

For all other uses by you of materials from the BIFMO website (for example, for commercial purposes, publication, broadcast, reuse on a website, or anything that is not covered by fair dealing), we ask that you contact BIFMO in advance for written permission to reproduce the materials. When requesting permission to use materials from our site, please be prepared to refer specifically to the information you intend to use. (Contact information is given below.)

We also ask that if you intend to quote from written, spoken or other material (including images) contained on the BIFMO website, even if permitted by this Copyright Notice, you refer your proposals to BIFMO before doing so in order to confirm their accuracy and context, although please remember that you remain solely responsible for fair dealing with regard to your proposals.

Contact Details

Contact: Dr Laurie Lindey
BIFMO Managing Editor
bifmoeditor@furniturehistorysociety.org

How to Cite BIFMO Content

BIFMO provides users with a wide variety of published and unpublished materials, researched and written over the past fifty years by academics, historians, curators, art market professionals, students, project interns and emerging scholars. 

Content on the website is contained within six sources:

• Bernard and Geraldine Cotton Archive, 1700-1900
• Dictionary of British and Irish Furniture Makers, 1600-1914
• Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers, 1660-1840
• Dictionary of Norfolk Furniture Makers, 1700-1840
• Joiners’ Company records, 1640-1821
• Upholders’ Company records, 1704-1772

For copyright purposes all information reproduced by users under the condition of ‘fair dealing’ should be referenced according to the relevant source as seen in the following examples:  

1. Cotton Archive

BIFMO; Bernard and Geraldine Cotton archive, 1700-1900, Abbey, T.; https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/abbey-t-1828-1861 [Last accessed day/month/year].

2. Dictionary of British and Irish Furniture Makers, 1600-1914

Reference with no sources

BIFMO: Dictionary of British and Irish Furniture Makers, 1600-1914; Robertson, James; https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/robertson-james-1871 [Last accessed day/month/year].

Reference with cited source(s)

BIFMO: Dictionary of British and Irish Furniture Makers, 1600-1914; Fuhrlohg, Christopher; Wood, L., ‘Georg Haupt and his Compatriots in London’, Furniture History (2014); https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/fuhrlohg-christopher-1740-87[Last accessed day/month/year].

3. Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers, 1660-1840

BIFMO: Dictionary of Edinburgh Wrights and Furniture Makers, 1660-1840; Cessford, Thomas; https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/cessford-thomas-1693 [Last accessed day/month/year].

4. Dictionary of Norfolk Furniture Makers, 1700-1840

BIFMO: Dictionary of Norfolk Furniture Makers, 1700-1840; Gardiner, John; https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/gardiner-john-1778-1818 [Last accessed day/month/year].

5. Joiners’ Company records

BIFMO: Joiners’ Company records; Traherne, Edward; https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/traherne-edward-1662 [Last accessed day/month/year].

6. Upholders’ Company records

BIFMO: Upholders’ Company records; Wyersdale, Nathaniel;  https://bifmo.furniturehistorysociety.org/entry/wyersdale-nathaniel-1700 [Last accessed day/month/year].

Last edited May 2023