York Georgian Society
News Archive
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 now available at a special price of £3.99. Visit the Publications page for more information.
12 October 2008
THE SOCIETY’S PROGRAMME OF WINTER LECTURES on Saturday afternoons continues on 8 November, when James Lomax will be talking about Chinoiserie silver in England from 1660 to 1830. Visit the Lectures page for more information.
A much-needed new constitution has been drafted. Approved by the Charity Commission, it will be presented to members for adoption at the Annual General Meeting on 6 December. The revised constitution 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.
Uncle John Carr, the Society’s millennium publication, is now available at a special price of £3.99. Visit the Publications page for more information.
22 August 2008
The launch of this website is a milestone in the history of the York Georgian Society. It forms part of a review of all our publicity and printed materials, intended to refresh and enhance the Society’s image in the twenty-first century. Our familiar logo (left) has not been discarded, like the proverbial baby with the bath-water, but has been carefully re-drawn: it now shows the York Mansion House in its correct proportions. A new-look Annual Report will be published in November.
The Society’s programme of winter lectures on Saturday afternoons opens on 11 October, when Dr Christopher Ridgway will be talking about sculpture and monuments in the gardens at Castle Howard. Visit the Lectures page for more information.
Uncle John Carr, the Society’s millennium publication, is now available at a special price of £3.99. Visit the Publications page for more information.