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2020-21

10 October 2020

Dr Ralph Harrington, York Georgian Society

New insights into the restoration of Fairfax House


14 November 2020

Dr Catriona Kennedy, University of York

'Republican Countess': Lady Londonderry and the Irish Rebellion of 1798


5 December 2020

Holly Day, University of York

The development of the pocket diary in Georgian Britain

Lilian Tabois, University of York

Historiography and travel in Martha Graham's writing on Brazil and Chile


9 January 2021

Peter Lindfield, Manchester Metropolitan University

William Kent's Gothic at the Minster: its influence on Georgian Gothic design


13 February 2021

Patrick Wildgust, Shandy Hall

Laurence Sterne at Shandy Hall


13 March 2021 (following the 2021 AGM)

Geoffrey Tyacke, The Georgian Group

The rebuilding of British towns 1760-1830

2019-20

12 October 2019

Dr Mary M. Brooks, University of Durham

Cassandra Willoughby 1670-1735: housekeeper or curator of Wollaton Hall?


2 November 2019

Dr Barbara Crosbie, University of Durham

Spatial hierarchies: apprenticeship and the early modern household


7 December 2019

Dr Sally Goodsir, Royal Collections Trust

George IV as a man of sport


11 January 2020

Richard Hewlings, formerly of English Heritage

Eighteenth-century Doncaster


8 February 2020

Prof. Jane Ohlemeyer, Trinity College Dublin

Making Ireland English


14 March 2020 (following the 2020 AGM)

Prof. Dale Townshend, Manchester Metropolitan University

Peripatetic picturesque and the rise of domestic tourism in late eighteenth-century England

2018-19

13 October 2018

Prof. David Fairer, University of Leeds

Wigs, swords and poison: writing murder mysteries set in Queen Anne’s London


10 November 2018

Prof. Stephen Daniels

Revealing Repton: Approaches to the Art of Landscape Gardening in his Bicentenary 


12 December 2018

Dr Joanna Marschner, Historic Royal Palaces

Enlightened princesses: Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte and the shaping of the modern world


12 January 2019

Prof. David Hopkins, University of Bristol

Dr Johnson on Shakespeare


9 February 2019

Prof. Aileen Ribeiro

English clothing in the eighteenth century


9 March 2019

Martin Myrone, Tate Britain

William Etty and the Royal Academy: social origins and educational opportunity in the early nineteenth-century art world

2017-18

14 October 2017

Dr Emma Major, University of York

Madam Britannia: church and nation in the eighteenth century


18 November 2017

Dr Leighton James, University of Swansea

Disaster on the Monongahela 1755: British reactions to Braddock’s defeat in North America


2 December 2017

Dr Richard Johns, University of York

The trials of Josiah Wedgwood, or the rise and fall of Jasperware


13 January 2018

Philip Newton, York Museums Trust

Polite and impolite pleasures in Georgian life: a study of sexual and gender identity in the eighteenth century


3 February 2018 (following the 2018 AGM)

Dr Ann-Marie Akehurst, RIBA Affiliate

The battle of the asylums: York at the centre of a cause célèbre in the late eighteenth century


10 March 2018

Adam Bowett, Chippendale Society

Thomas Chippendale's neo-classical marquetry: design, material and methods

2016-17

8 October 2016

Dr Matthew Craske, Oxford Brookes University

Understanding Georgian monumental sculpture: the various approaches of scholars


19 November 2016

Ian Small, York Georgian Society

Who would be a theatre manager? York Race Week 1765


3 December 2016

Dr Adrian Green, University of Durham

Architecture and social life at Boynton Hall and York House, Malton, from the English Revolution to the French Revolution


14 January 2017

Dr Ralph Harrington, University of Leeds

Making meanings: Interpreting the decorative plasterwork of Fairfax House, York


11 February 2017 (following the 2017 AGM)

Michael Bevington, Stowe School

The changing face of Stowe


11 March 2017

Dr Carolyn Anderson

The art of depicting with a soldier's eye: Paul Sandby and the military mapping of the Highlands

2015-16

10 October 2015

Sue Palmer FSA, Sir John Soane's Museum

The servants' daily round: domestic life at Lincoln's Inn Fields


14 November 2015

Prof. Edward Royle, University of York

The Great Yorkshire Election of 1807


5 December 2015

Dr Patricia Andrew FSA, National Galleries of Scotland

Alexander Nasmyth, 1758–1840, polymath: painter, architect, engineer and designer


9 January 2016

David Alexander, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Women printmakers in late Georgian England


13 February 2016 (following the 2016 AGM)

Dr Lesley Miller, Victoria & Albert Museum

Forbidden Fruits: French Silks in eighteenth-century Britain


12 March 2016

Karen Lynch

A noble prospect: Capability Brown and the Yorkshire landscape

2014-15

18 October 2015

SEVENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY LECTURE

Dan Cruickshank

Wentworth Woodhouse


8 November 2015

Helen Wyld, National Trust for Scotland

French tapestry and Britain 1689–1789


6 December 2015

Prof. Judith Hawley, Royal Holloway, University of London

Clubbing and toasting in Georgian Britain


10 January 2016

Prof. James Sharpe, University of York

Dick Turpin: reality and myth



14 February 2016 (following the 2016 AGM)

Dr John Goodall, Country Life

Georgian Gothic


14 March 2016

Robert Latter

A real-life Mr Darcy: Colonel Hervey Aston (1759–1798)

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