£15 members/£18 non-members The value of inventories in charting how houses were arranged, furnished and used is now widely appreciated. Typically, the listings and valuations were occasioned by the death …
Symposium: Wren 300
£70/£35 (student ticket) The Georgian Group’s 2023 Symposium, led by Geoffrey Tyack of Oxford University, will form a central focus of the Wren 300 Festival. Across an immersive full day, …
Online Lecture: Regency Adultery: Byron’s affair with Lady Frances Wedderburn Webster
£5 members/£7 non-members Dr Emily Paterson-Morgan will discuss one of the most peculiar and – frankly – ludicrous episodes in Byron’s extremely complex love life: the brief, passionate, yet ultimately …
Online Lecture: The Earl of Sheffield and Sheffield Park
£5 members/£7 non-members John Baker Holroyd, first earl of Sheffield (1735–1821) was a client of James Wyatt and patron of Edward Gibbon. A hyperactive pamphleteer and campaigner, he published on …
Beilby Porteus, Bishop of London & Beilby Porteus, Boy Slave: Two Lives in an Age of Empire
£15 members/£18 non-members Beilby Porteus, chaplain to George III and Bishop of London from 1787–1809, was a leading advocate against Britain’s involvement in the slave trade. But was he history’s …
*Sold Out* East Anglian Georgian Group Event: Wolterton Park
£50 Wolterton Park, Norfolk, was built to the design of the Office of Works architect Thomas Ripley, between 1725 and 1741, for Horatio, 1st Lord Walpole, the brother of our …
*Sold Out* East Sussex Visit: Lewes
£40, all day Led by Dr Sue Berry. A day in Lewes, exploring a changing provincial centre and market town which still has many facades of the period, but nothing …
South West Georgian Group Event: Halswell Park & Robin Hood Hut
£50 Winner of the Georgian Group Architectural Awards in 2021 for Restoration of a Georgian Structure or Interior for the Bath Stone Bridge, Pevsner called Halswell Park the most important …
*Postponed* Town Visit: Georgian Dover
£25, morning The Norman castle and Napoleonic citadel occupy the headlands which determined Dover’s growth along steep valley sides. Much of this growth took place in the wake of Napoleon’s …
*Sold Out* London Walk: Fitzrovia
£40 An area which receives its name from links to Charles II and Barbara Villiers, has been home to artists, writers and creatives – including John Constable, Gwen John and …