AHRC PhD Funded Research Programme Opportunity
The Herbert Baker Society and University of York have recently been successful in securing funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, for a PhD research project focusing on Sir Herbert Baker. Further information is available here. The deadline for...
Burlington Magazine Scholarship
The Burlington Magazine scholarship for the study of French 18th-century fine and decorative art - 2025. Overview The scholarship has been created to provide funding over a 12-month period to those engaged in the study of French...
John Cornforth Memorial Lectures
The John Cornforth Memorial Lectures LONDON WEDNESDAY 12 FEBRUARY, WEDNESDAY 12 MARCH, TUESDAY 8 APRIL 2025 The John Cornforth Memorial Lectures return in 2025, presenting the stories of country houses and their estates through the eyes of private owners. This lecture...
Connecticut Ceramics Circle Lectures
Connecticut Ceramics Circle 'Ceramics in the English Country Houses of the National Trust: Part I: Asian Stories; Part II: European Stories' Monday 10 February By: Patricia Ferguson, Former Curator, British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Honorary...
2025 Attingham Alumni Reunion
Save the Date! For the 2025 Annual Alumni Reunion with Guest Lecturer Steven Brindle who will talk to us about the subject of his new book, LONDON, LOST INTERIORS Monday 31 March, 5.15pm-8pm (Lecture commences promptly at 5.30pm, followed by drinks) at the Society of...
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...
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...