PLEASE NOTE: THE DATE OF THIS TALK HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE 16TH NOVEMBER Painted interiors, narratives spilling over walls and ceilings, can unlock the sensory worlds of the British …
Online lecture: Patrick Baty – The Use of Colour c.1700–1820
Patrick Baty will explain how one can learn what paint colours were used during this period. The treatment of panelled rooms – in particular, the disposition of colour – will …
*SOLD OUT* Visit: Kimbolton Castle
Half-day | £45 Set in the heart of rural Cambridgeshire, Kimbolton Castle was first built as a fortified manor house, and later modified during the Tudor and Stuart periods. It …
Online lecture: Susan L. Siegfried – The New Taste: Fashion and Art in the 1820s and 1830s
Across the visual arts in France and Britain in the 1820s and 1830s a dynamic culture of fashion was taking shape. Wide-ranging in taste and driven by a quest for …
Lecture: Frances Sands – Vanbrugh as Soane’s ‘Shakespeare of architects’
£15 members/£18 non-members The architect, collector and teacher John Soane (1753–1837) did not mince his words. During his tenure as Professor of Architecture at the Royal Academy in London, he …
Visit: Lady Caroline Percy and Oliver Gerrish at Syon House
Half-day | £50 Syon House has been the home of the Percy family since the late 16th century. The house and park were redesigned by Robert Adam and Lancelot ‘Capability’ …
Online lecture: William Aslet – James Gibbs and the Creation of Eighteenth-century Oxford
The Radcliffe Camera is one of Oxford’s best-loved buildings. This talk by William Aslet looks at how it came into being, at the paths not taken in its design, and …
Visit: The Bedford Estate
Half-day | £35 Martin Randall, author of a forthcoming book on the architecture of London’s houses, leads a walk across the Bedford Estate which culminates on Bedford Square, the best-preserved …
Lecture: Colin Thom – The ‘architecture of improvement’: the design, construction and survival of UCL’s Greek Revival Wilkins Building
£15 members/£18 non-members Please note that the date of this talk has changed to the 8th December 2026 marks the bicentenary of University College London – 200 years since it …
Panel: ‘Place-Making’ – Nicholas Boys Smith and Hugh Petter In Conversation
£15 members/£18 non-members Nicholas Boys-Smith, Founder & Chairman of Create Streets, and Hugh Petter, architect, urban designer, and director of ADAM Architecture, will discuss ‘place-making’ in modern Britain. Both champions …