£15 members/£18 non-members The Georgian Group is delighted to host a live recording of ‘Your Places or Mine’, a podcast about places and buildings, with tales about history and people, …

£15 members/£18 non-members 2025 marks 200 years since the death of the influential, yet often overlooked, architect George Dance the Younger (1741-1825). Dance served for nearly 50 years as Clerk …

£5 members/£7 non-members Several decaying towns and some villages aspired to make a living from seaside tourism. Brighton forged ahead of the rest – why? This is before the much …

£5 members/£7 non-members Hilton Marlton and Sean Jones will examine the ubiquity of lime wash finishes throughout the United Kingdom, drawing on recent research and new evidence. The talk starts …

£15 members/£18 non-members Timothy Smith and Jonathan Taylor are the founding partners of Smith & Taylor and lecturers at the University of Kingston’s Department of Architecture and Landscape. In this …

£15 members/£18 non-members Fifty years ago, there were widespread fears about the future of Britain’s country houses. The V&A’s ‘Destruction of the Country House’ exhibition (1974) anticipated that government policies …

£15 members/£18 non-members The early eighteenth-country houses designed by John Vanbrugh, including Blenheim in Oxfordshire and the now-lost Claremont in Surrey and Eastbury in Dorset are, or were, remarkable for …

£15 members/£18 non-members During Vanbrugh’s lifetime, his architecture was much mocked, hated by the Duchess of Marlborough and regarded by Jonathan Swift as the work of a child; but not …

£5 members/£7 non-members Hilton Marlton will discuss smaller vernacular buildings and the ways in which classical elements filtered down into the provinces. Understanding the significance of local materials and the …