£30, 10.30am Join us for a curator led tour of this special display at the Foundling Museum. Giving us a unique opportunity to explore one of the most treasured items …
Carvers of the Royal Works in the later 17th and early 18th century
£15 members/£18 non-members Grinling Gibbons is by far the best known of a group of carvers working for the sovereign on new commissions at Hampton Court and Kensington Palace in …
*Sold Out* The Greek Revival in England
£15 members/£18 non-members In the 1750s a debate unfolded in Rome as to which was superior: Greek or Roman art. Despite the publication of Vol.1 of Stuart and Revett’s Antiquities of …
Online Lecture: Builders as architects – and their significant influence in town and country: the Morris and Wild families of Sussex as case studies 1720-1840
£5 members/£7 non-members Arthur and John Morris played an important role in the development of Coombe, Firle and Glynde Places in Sussex and worked on houses in Lewes. They dealt …
Online Lecture: Hidden Patrons: Women and Architectural Patronage in Georgian Britain.
£5 members/£7 non-members An enduring myth of Georgian architecture is that it was purely the pursuit of male architects and their wealthy male patrons. Amy Boyington dismantles this myth – revealing instead …
Online Lecture: Cornish Country Houses
£5 members/£7 non-members Cornwall is a place where history is never far below the surface. It is a place of myth and legend, ancient tales and romance. The Cornish country …
Empire Building – The Construction of British India
£15 members/£18 non-members Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines the East India Company’s impact on India, focussing on how it changed the sub-continent’s built environment in the context of defence, urbanisation, and infrastructural …
Online Lecture: George Shaw of Uppermill
£5 members/£7 non-members George Shaw (1810–76) of Uppermill in Yorkshire and on the periphery of Greater Manchester was the son of a cloth merchant. Working for his father, Shaw sold …
Saving Sheerness Dockyard Church
£15 members/£18 non-members Standing at the entrance to the working port of Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey, Dockyard Church, listed Grade II*, was completed in 1828 to the designs …
Online Lecture: Building over fossilized field systems and their impact on urban house design: A case study of Brighton 1770–1820
£5 members/£7 non-members Not enclosing land so that it was laid out in large blocks ready for development resulted in challenges for Georgian developers such as limitations imposed on the …