by Rebecca Parker | Dec 20, 2023 | Past Online Events, Uncategorized
One Tuesday 16th January the Attingham Society conducted a private visit to the exhibition ‘Holbein at The Tudor Court’ Park at The Queen’s Gallery. This tour with Kate Heard, Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings and curator of the exhibition,...
by Rebecca Parker | May 17, 2023 | Past Online Events
A special visit to Dyrham Park has been arranged with Dr Rupert Goulding following his very successful Attingham talk on Dyrham Park and Imperial Imagination in our Winter lecture series. Rupert (Summer School 2011) will lead the tour. He is the National Trust’s...
by Rebecca Parker | Apr 24, 2023 | Past Online Events
Alice de Rothschild, a member of the powerful European banking dynasty, was an avid art collector and creator of spectacular gardens at her residences in England and France. Yet her legacy has been overshadowed by the men of her family. Following new research related...
by Rebecca Parker | Apr 23, 2023 | Past Online Events
William Blathwayt (?1649-1717) constructed Dyrham Park between 1692 and 1704, a house and garden made to reflect his professional status, embodying his interconnected roles within political, military, and especially colonial administration. The house contained a rich...
by Rebecca Parker | Apr 22, 2023 | Past Online Events
On the basis of a selection of country-house case studies, Michael Hall asks whether current approaches in queer history and contemporary understanding of LGBTQI+ identities offer new ways of analysing the way that the National Trust relates not only to ideas of...
by Rebecca Parker | Apr 20, 2023 | Past Online Events
This talk looks at Grinling Gibbons, one of the greatest artists of the English Baroque. Born in Rotterdam to English parents, he moved to England in 1667 and went on to have a spectacular career as a woodcarver and a sculptor, largely owing to his unprecedented...
