£5 members/£7 non-members The talk will capture the Duke of Wellington’s life from his birth in 1769 to his state funeral in 1852. Inevitably the story includes conflict in India, the Peninsula …
Online Lecture: Why did Sarah Hurst Love her Sewing? Needlework as a Source of Entertainment, Consolation and Reflection
£5 members/£7 non-members Sewing is ageless and the act of using a needle and thread to join two pieces of cloth together stretches back centuries. For some, sewing will always …
YG Lecture: Alan Dodd: Master Muralist
£15 (£10 YGs) You are invited to spend an evening at 6 Fitzroy Square as the muralist Alan Dodd discusses his career and work. Alan Dodd works as a designer …
YG Lecture: James Wyatt’s Forgotten Masterpiece: The Speaker’s House at Westminster, 1794-1834
This lecture has been rescheduled for Monday 8th August. £15 (£10 YGs) The Palace of Westminster – home of Britain’s Houses of Parliament – is one of the country’s most …
Lecture: The Missing Link: Mughal India and the Design of Sir John Vanbrugh
£15 members/£18 non-members Until recently, the mid 1680s in the life of John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard and general ‘Rockstar’ of the English Baroque, were missing …
Online Lecture: Reinterpreting Horace Walpole’s Little Gothic Castle: Strawberry Hill
£5 members/£7 non-members Horace Walpole’s Georgian Gothic villa, Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, has been held up as the most important example of the early Gothic Revival in Britain. The villa …