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With guest speaker Ptolemy Dean OBE (SS ‘1997) at Royal Academy of Arts on 10th February 2020. Ticket information to follow.

Welcome & Unwelcome Guests: The Visitor & The Country House, 11-13 May 2020 at Maynooth University.

Further details can be found here

At the Victoria and Albert Museum, Looking After the Royal Collection on Thursday 7th November given by Tim Knox, Director of the Royal Collection and Council Member of The Attingham Trust. All our welcome and this would be of particular interest to alumni of Royal Collection Studies or those hoping to attend. Booking essential through the V&A website

The Irish Georgian Society, in partnership with the National Trust, Northern Ireland, is delivering a study day on Tuesday 12th November celebrating the rich architectural heritage, decorative interiors and designed landscape of Ireland’s finest eighteenth-century neo-classical house, Castle Coole, Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. Castle Coole has been home to the Lowry Corry family since the late seventeenth century. Castle Coole continues to be home to Lord Belmore and his family.

The keynote speaker will be Dr John Martin Robinson, the acknowledged authority on James Wyatt. Other distinguished speakers include:Frances Bailey; William Laffan; Dr Patricia McCarthy; Dr Edward McParland; Christopher Monkhouse; Terence Reeves-Smyth; Dr William Roulston; and David Skinner. The study day commences at 11am with tea and scones and a welcome from Lord Belmore. In addition to the study day lectures, there will a tour of Castle Coole and lunch.

More information can be found here