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£70

The Young Georgians invite you to join them at Fitzroy Square for an evening of feasting, dancing and general merriment!

The festivities will commence in the Gardens at 6pm with regency dancing, accompanied by a dance caller and regency band. Later in the evening, the party will move to Number Six where party-goers may enjoy a buffet banquet across the two floors of the 1790s Robert Adam townhouse. An auction and tombola will enliven the scene and proffer guests the potential for a prize!

Dress code: Georgian attire or Black Tie

There is booking priority for Young Georgians from the 22nd July until the 29th July when the tickets will be open to all.

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If tickets have sold out for this event, please email members@georgiangroup.org.uk to be added to the waiting list.

£20 members/£25 non-members

Curt DiCamillo is a noted author and internationally recognised authority on the British country house. The Massachusetts-based Mr. DiCamillo regularly leads luxury scholarly tours and lectures around the world on art and architecture. At this ‘in conversation’ with Julian Honer (Director, Thames & Hudson) , Curt will join us to discuss his latest book, A British Country House Alphabet, which documents famous historical events and cultural innovations that occurred at, or because of, British country houses.

Julian Honer is Editorial Director at Thames & Hudson, where he heads the publisher’s partnerships with museums, including the British Museum, the V&A and M+ museum in Hong Kong. He also commissions books about historic and contemporary architecture.

The discussion will be followed by a reception to celebrate the launch of the book.

The talk starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.

Georgian Group members are eligible for a discount on their ticket by entering GGMEMBER at the checkout.

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If tickets have sold out for this event, please email members@georgiangroup.org.uk to be added to the waiting list

£15 members/£18 non-members

Sarah Siddons grew up always poor and often hungry. But before she was 30 she had become a superstar. Her rise was not easy. Her London debut, aged just 20, was a disaster. But the young actress – already a mother of two – rebuilt her career, returning triumphantly to the capital seven years later. Her shows were sell-outs. In a world of vicious satire and gossip, Sarah battled to protect her reputation. She took constant pains to portray herself as a wife and mother, but this hid some darker truths. This remarkable woman also redefined the world of theatre and became the first celebrity actress.

The talk starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.

Georgian Group members are eligible for a discount on their ticket by entering GGMEMBER at the checkout.

Please read our Terms and Conditions before booking.

If tickets have sold out for this event, please email members@georgiangroup.org.uk to be added to the waiting list

£15 members/£18 non-members

Sir John Soane’s architecture has enjoyed a revival of interest over the last seventy years, yet Soane as a collector – the strategy behind and motivation for Soane’s bequest to the nation – has remained largely unexplored. While Soane referred to the display of objects in his house and museum as ‘studies for my own mind’, he never explained what he meant by this, and the ambiguity surrounding his motivation remains perennially fascinating. Bruce Boucher will examine key strands in Soane’s collection and what they reveal about the man and the psychology of collecting.

The talk starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.

Georgian Group members are eligible for a discount on their ticket by entering GGMEMBER at the checkout.

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If tickets have sold out for this event, please email members@georgiangroup.org.uk to be added to the waiting list

£15 members/£18 non-members

In 1789, as revolution broke out in France, court life revived in England, with grandiose celebrations for George III’s recovery. A thousand or more would attend levers or drawing rooms , causing ‘crowding and squeezing’, ‘pushing and scrambling’ in St James’s Palace. Lines of courtiers’ carriages stretching from beyond Oxford street attracted admiring spectators. in 1821 his friend Walter Scott described the coronation of George IV as ‘beyond measure magnificent’. Governments considered control of the royal household essential, for example in the regency crises of 1788 and 1811–12, and the Bedchamber Question of 1839. The Tory leader Robert Peel refused to be Prime Minister, when the Queen would not dismiss her Whig ladies in waiting. His rival lord Melbourne went almost every day to court, always sitting beside the Queen at dinner. For her part the Queen believed: ‘I must be surrounded by my Court. I cannot keep alone’. Britain remained a court society as well as a parliamentary monarchy.

The talk starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.

Georgian Group members are eligible for a discount on their ticket by entering GGMEMBER at the checkout.

Please read our Terms and Conditions before booking.

If tickets have sold out for this event, please email members@georgiangroup.org.uk to be added to the waiting list

£15 members/£18 non-members

The Greening family flourished throughout the 18th century. With an impressive nursery, on the Isleworth/Brentford border, they supplied plants, trees and bulbs and undertook landscape design and maintenance contract for the royal family and wealthy clients. No business archive survives but payments for their work appear in the records of numerous estates in England and Wales. Val Bott’s study of the nursery gardeners in parishes along the Thames valley west of London has been shared in short essays on individual families. This wider study provides the context for understanding and recognising the significance of the Greenings.

The talk starts at 6.30pm, doors open from 6.15pm.

Georgian Group members are eligible for a discount on their ticket by entering GGMEMBER at the checkout.

Please read our Terms and Conditions before booking.

If tickets have sold out for this event, please email members@georgiangroup.org.uk to be added to the waiting list