Curatorial Job Opportunity HRP (Tower of London)
Historic Royal Palaces is seeking to appoint a Curator of Collections - Tower of London. Please select 'read more' and click on the link shown for further information. (Jan 2025)
Dame Rosalind Savill, DBE, FSA, FBA
Dame Rosalind Savill, DBE FSA FBA, 12 May 1951 – 27 December 2024. We are all deeply saddened by the recent death of Ros Savill, a remarkable scholar, tutor and friend to so many of us. For nearly five decades Ros supported Attingham as a lecturer, a member of the...
BIFMO-FHS Online Course June 2024
Innovation and Creativity: furnishing the country house 1780-1950 5pm – 7.30pm (BST) 12noon – 2.30pm (EDT) 4th, 11th, 18th & 25th June Join BIFMO every Tuesday throughout June, when curators and historians will consider the evolution and variety of country house...
Alumni Visit to Ditchley Park -26th April 2024
A rare opportunity to visit Ditchley Park and study the main rooms has been specially arranged for the Attingham alumni Ditchley Park has provided an idyllic retreat for royalty and power since Elizabethan times. The present house was built in 1720 for the 2nd Earl of...
22nd Annual Historic Houses International Conference 12-14 May 2024
Maynooth University and The Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates are delighted to announce the 22nd Annual Historic Houses International Conference on 12th-14th May 2024 at Maynooth University and Castletown House.The conference will feature...
Notes & Queries: A Symposium in Honour of Richard Hewlings -15th March
The Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture & Cambridge Architectural History Seminars invites you to a symposium in honour of Richard Hewlings. Through his work as an Investigator of Historic Buildings at the Department of the Environment (DoE), Inspector...
The PGECR Country House Group Conference 2024
The first annual conference of the PGECR Country House Group sponsored by Birkbeck University of London and The University for the Creative Arts (UCA) took place in the Keynes Library at Birckbeck Univerity on Friday, 1st March 2024. Speakers presented on a myriad of...
V&A and National Trust ‘The Public Country House’ conference 16-17 May 2024
The British country house: family home or public cultural asset? Glorious exemplar of historic taste or contested site of public history? A visually enthralling historic stage set, or a site to inform understanding of our national histories? There are millions of...
The John Cornforth Memorial Lectures
The John Cornforth Memorial Lectures tell the story of the country house and its estate, as seen through the eyes of the private owner. Proudly presented in association with Christie’s, the lecture series celebrates John Cornforth’s invaluable contribution to...
Furniture History Society Symposium ‘New Light on Arts and Crafts Furniture and Interiors’
Art Workers' Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AT, 10.30am - 5.00pm The 2024 Furniture History Society symposium, ‘New Light on Arts and Crafts Furniture and Interiors’, will be held on Saturday 23 March at the Art Workers’ Guild, Queen Square, London, and...