York Georgian Society
Welcome
The York Georgian Society was founded in 1939 to promote the preservation and care of Georgian buildings in and around York, England, while fostering the study and appreciation of them. It is the second oldest society outside London devoted to the Georgian era. The Society’s remit extends beyond architecture and the crafts associated with building to include the arts, culture and society of the period from 1660, the year of George I’s birth, to 1837, the year of William IV’s death.
News
9 November 2008
THE SOCIETY’S PROGRAMME OF WINTER LECTURES on Saturday afternoons continues on 6 December, when Hugh Belsey will be talking on Gainsborough and Yorkshire. Visit the Lectures page for more information.
The December lecture will follow the Annual General Meeting (starting at 2.30 pm), at which a new constitution will be presented to members for adoption. This much-needed, revised constitution, approved by the Charity Commission, does not fundamentally change the Society’s purposes or affect the expectations of members, but it puts our activities on a firmer legal footing and removes certain ambiguities with regard to our procedures. Crucially, it widens the scope of our research interests, as and when appropriate, beyond the confines of ’York and its neighbourhood’. Click here to read the draft Constitution.
The Society’s new-look Annual Report, with full-cover colour, has been published and will shortly reach members. The re-design of the report forms part of a review of all our publicity and printed materials, intended to refresh and enhance the Society’s image in the now not-so-young twenty-first century.
Uncle John Carr, the Society’s millennium publication, is currently available at a special price of £3.99. Visit the Publications page for more information.
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