Lectures
Lecture Programme
Winter 2008–9
- Saturday 11 October
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A Different Kind of Planting: Sculpture and Monuments in the Gardens at Castle Howard
Dr Christopher Ridgway, Curator, Castle Howard
- Saturday 8 November
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Chinoiserie Silver in England 1660 to 1830
James Lomax, Curator, Temple Newsam House
- Saturday 6 December (following the Annual General Meeting)
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Gainsborough and Yorkshire
Hugh Belsey, Senior Research Fellow, Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London
- Saturday 10 January
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From York to Westminster: The Dilemma of Palladian Public Architecture
Dr Frank Salmon, Lecturer in History of Art, Department of History of Art, University of Cambridge
- Saturday 14 February
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The Growth of Resort Towns in Yorkshire
Dr George Sheeran, University of Bradford
- Saturday 14 March
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The Creation and Restoration of the Georgian Landscape Garden at Wentworth Castle
Dr Patrick Eyres, Editor and Publisher of the New Arcadian Journal, and Wentworth Castle Trustee
Time and Place
Lectures are at 2.30 pm in the Tempest Anderson Hall, Yorkshire Museum, Museum Gardens, York.
Please use the main entrance to the Museum.
Map
All are welcome.
Admission is free for members of the Society,
£5 per lecture for non-members.
Header image credit: York Museums Trust (York Art Gallery)