york georgian society lecture archive
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)