Lectures
Lecture Programme
Winter 2011–12
- Saturday 8 October (following presentation of the Patrick Nuttgens Award 2011)
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Grand Tour Journeys from the North of England 1700–1840
Anne French, art historian and author of Art Treasures in the North: Northern Families on the Grand Tour
- Saturday 12 November
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‘Feeding Desire’: Tools of the Table
Philippa Glanville, FSA, social historian, liveryman of the Goldsmiths’ Company and Master 2011–12 of the Company of Arts Scholars, Dealers and Collectors
- Saturday 3 December
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Nostell Priory: Introducing a Georgian House and a Yorkshire Family
Frances Sands, Catalogue Editor, Adam Drawings Project, Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, and winner of the Patrick Nuttgens Award 2010
- Saturday 14 January
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Tate Wilkinson’s ‘Monarchy’: The Yorkshire Theatre Circuit 1766–1803
Ian Small, research student, University of York, and former Headmaster of Bootham School
- Saturday 18 February (following the Annual General Meeting)
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‘It will quite eclipse Napoleon’: The Prince Regent on seeing John Nash’s Plans for London in 1811
David Watkin, Hon. FRIBA, FSA, Emeritus Fellow of Peterhouse and Emeritus Professor of the History of Architecture, University of Cambridge
Please note the above date is one week later than previously announced.
- Saturday 10 March (following presentation of the Patrick Nuttgens Award 2012)
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How to get ahead in Business: James ‘Athenian’ Stuart as Painter and Architect in eighteenth-century London
Dr Kerry Bristol, Senior Lecturer and Director, Centre for Architecture and Material Culture, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds
Time and Place
Lectures are at 2.30 pm
(doors open at 2pm).
Dianne Willcocks Lecture Theatre (DG/017), De Grey Court, York St John University,
Lord Mayor’s Walk, York YO31 7EX
De Grey Court is the new building on the corner of Lord Mayor’s Walk and Clarence Street. Buses 1, 5 and 6 stop nearby.
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All are welcome. Admission is free for members of the Society.
For non-members there is normally a charge of £5 per lecture, but
admission on 12 November is free to all.
Lecture Archive
To view the archive of our previous lecture programmes click here.
Header image credit: York Museums Trust (York Art Gallery)