York Georgian Society
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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. The Society celebrates its seventieth anniversary in 2009.
News
18 March 2009
NIELS VAN MANEN has won the York Georgian Society’s first Patrick Nuttgens Award. It was presented to him on Saturday 14 March 2009 by Bridget Nuttgens in the Tempest Anderson Hall, at the Yorkshire Museum, York.
The Award is named in honour of the late Patrick Nuttgens, architect, broadcaster and educationist, who died five years ago (Bridget Nuttgens is his widow). A well known and warmly remembered figure both locally and nationally, he was founding Director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies at the University of York, and successively Secretary, Chairman and President of the York Georgian Society.
The Patrick Nuttgens Award scheme is the result of a fruitful collaboration between the York Georgian Society and the University of York. It provides for a grant to be awarded annually to a PhD student, in the second or third year of research at the University, studying an aspect of the Georgian period.
Niels van Manen, winner of the Award for 2009, took his first degree at the University of Amsterdam. He subsequently gained an MA, with distinction, at the University of York, where he is a now a third-year PhD student in the History Department. The Nuttgens Award will further his research into the social and medical history of chimney sweeps, especially those known as ‘climbing boys’, in late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century Britain.
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