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£15 members/£18 non-members

Using unpublished French and English sources, Philip Mansel shows that the Francophilia of the Prince Regent equalled the Anglophilia of Louis XVIII. The Regent decorated his palaces like French palaces, promised Louis XVIII not to make peace until he had restored the Bourbons to their throne, and organised a triumphant reception for Louis XVIII in London in 1814. Louis XVIII knew English history and literature ‘perfectly’, called the interests of the two countries ‘inseparable’, followed Castlereigh’s secret advice about his manifesto to France in 1813, and welcomed British visitors to Paris after 1814 (such as Soane, Nash and Walter Scott). Throughout the nineteenth century Paris attracted thousands of British residents, while, long before Palmerston used the term ‘entente cordiale’ in 1831, the two countries acted as political and military allies in Europe.

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

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This talk will focus on the fragile survival of this still largely intact East India Company town and its Georgian architecture. St Helena was a hugely important staging point for trade ships to and from the east prior to the opening of the Suez Canal in 1869. Peregrine will have recently returned from a second visit to the island working with others on a Conservation Management Plan for the town which will help to inform his talk.

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

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At a time of increased pressure for new urban development, where there is a focus on either object-based architecture or the rolling out of developer-designed suburban sprawl, there is a concern that the lessons learned about the creation of a general attractive ‘townscape’ or ‘streetscape’ have become forgotten or obscured. Ptolemy Dean will discuss his new book ‘Streetscapes: Navigating Historic English Towns’.

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

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Hugh Petter will set out some of the key issues that have resulted in the lamentable quality of new housing in the UK today before explaining how a rediscovery of the principles of stewardship, rooted in the eighteenth century and pioneered by His Majesty The King, has helped start a new movement with landowners across the country who are determined to make a difference.

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

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£5 members/£7 non-members

Clear window glass of the long 18th and 19th centuries is a remarkable product of its age. Within current conservation practice and planning, recent research shows that it is understood and valued less well than other building materials. This talk/lecture will examine elements that contribute to its significance.

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

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As a postgraduate student, Charles Saumarez Smith spent a lot of time working on John Vanbrugh in connection with his designs for Castle Howard. He developed a different view of his relationship to Nicholas Hawksmoor from the current orthodoxy, partly from reading his correspondence with Henry Joynes, the Clerk of Works at Blenheim. It was the opposite of what you might expect: here were the letters of an architect who was hard working, conscientious, deeply involved in all aspects of Blenheim’s construction. He has have now written a biography, John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture, to be published in advance of the tercentenary of his death in 2026. This talk will discuss a new interpretation.

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

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Gothic architecture never quite went away in England. It reached its nadir, in general esteem and new buildings built, c. 1680– 1720, and thereafter recovered as a new generation discovered the style. From that point, ‘Gothic Survival’ architecture, built by masons, was paralleled by early ‘Gothic Revival’ buildings, designed by architects including William Kent, James Gibbs, Sanderson Miller and Henry Keene. Steven Brindle considers the various strands of Gothic architecture and decoration, its relationship to antiquarianism, how the style was used, and its various meanings in Early Georgian England.

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

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