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
12 March 2012
CAROLYN DOUGHERTY has won the York Georgian Society’s Patrick Nuttgens Award for 2012, competing in a very strong field. She is shown above (centre), between Bridget Nuttgens (left), widow of the late Patrick Nuttgens, and Peg Alexander (right), youngest of the Nuttgens sons and daughters. Peg Alexander presented the Award on Saturday 10 March at York St John University.
The Award is named in honour of Patrick Nuttgens, architect, broadcaster and educationist, who died almost exactly eight years ago. A well-known and warmly remembered figure, both locally and nationally, he was founding Director of the Institute of Advanced Architectural Studies within 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 Society and the University of York. It provides for a grant to be awarded annually to a PhD student researching an aspect of the Georgian period.
Carolyn Dougherty is a part-time PhD student in History (Railway Studies) at the University of York. She is undertaking research on the operation of the carrying trade in England in the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, and the way in which independent carriers at first adopted the earliest railways for their own use but were later superseded by the railway companies. Passenger travel has hitherto been the principal concern of railway historians: Carolyn Dougherty’s research is ground-breaking in focusing on rail freight operations in these early days. The Nuttgens Award will enable her to investigate important documentary material in London, at the National Archives and Westminster City Archives, and in Ellesmere Port, at the National Waterways Museum.
THE SOCIETY’S PROGRAMME of winter lectures for 2012–13 is announced: please visit the Lectures page for more information. Members will receive the usual printed programme card in the summer.
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