by Lorna Gartside | Oct 27, 2025 | Past Online Events
Attingham alumni visit to Paris, 4th February 2026 The Grand Palais in Paris is mounting a short-run special exhibition about Louis XIV’s Grande Galerie Savonnerie carpets, entitled Le trésor retrouvé du Roi-Soleil. Curated by Emmanuelle Federspiel and Antonin Macé de...
by Lorna Gartside | Oct 6, 2025 | Related Events and Other Society News
We are pleased to announce that the 24th Annual Historic Houses International Conference will take place in Maynooth University from 11-12 May 2026. The theme for this year’s conference is Life Cycles and the Historic House. For more information about the...
by Lorna Gartside | Sep 4, 2025 | Uncategorized
STANDEN Philip Webb, Morris & Co. and the Creation of an Arts and Crafts Home Anne Stutchbury, Tessa Wild, Stephen Ponder and Alice Strickland Published by Yale University Press at £35 and available to buy here. In 1891, James Beale, a wealthy, middle-class...
by Lorna Gartside | May 19, 2025 | Past Online Events
ALUMNI VISITS PARIS & CHANTILLY: Two exhibitions LE DERNIER SACRE AND LES TRÈS RICHES HEURES DU DUC DE BERRY Friday 13 June, 2025 Le Mobilier national, 10.00 – 11.30am Château de Chantilly, 2.00pm Curator-led tours of these acclaimed exhibitions have been...
by Lorna Gartside | May 9, 2025 | Past Online Events
Our guest lecturer for the 2025 Attingham alumni reunion on 31 March (hosted by the Society of Antiquaries of London) was Steven Brindle. Steven is well known to many Attingham alumni from his inspirational lecturing at Windsor Castle on Royal Collection Studies but...