Archive for January, 2010
« Previous EntriesGeorgian Group Events, Feb 2010
Sunday, January 31st, 2010The Georgian Group is offering an interesting range of events this month. See http://www.georgiangroup.org.uk/docs/edu/events.php?id=6:2|2010:0:0 for information about booking.
4th February 2010
Lecture / The Country Houses of Sir John Vanbrugh*
6 Fitzroy Square W1
6.30pm, £10
Jeremy Musson reviews the idiosyncratic magnificence of Vanbrugh’s country houses, from Castle Howard and Blenheim to Seaton Delaval, Grimsthorpe and Kimbolton.
9th February [...]
Coeli Specto: RIP Charles I & Upcoming Related Exhibition
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Today is the anniversary of the execution of King Charles I (or Charles Stuart as my Roundhead friends call him!). So it seems a good idea to mention an exhibition opening next month at the National Gallery.
A Masterpiece Recovered: Delaroche’s Charles I Insulted
The National Gallery, London
24 February – 23 May 2010
Free
First shown at the Paris [...]
Reminder: Birkbeck EMS’s first event of 2010! Tonight!
Friday, January 29th, 2010Prof. Alex Walsham, (Exeter), Skeletons in the Cupboard: Relics after the English Reformation, Friday 29 Jan, 6.30 pm, Malet St, room 321.
Happy New Year! You are warmly invited to our first paper of 2010. Prof. Alex Walsham works on the religious and cultural history of early modern Britain, especially the immediate impact and long-term repercussions [...]
Painting History: Delaroche and Lady Jane Grey at the National Gallery, London
Tuesday, January 26th, 201024 February – 23 May 2010
Sainsbury Wing Exhibition
Admission charge
From the National Portrait Gallery:
Paul Delaroche was one of the most celebrated artists of his time. His large history paintings received wide acclaim at the Paris annual exhibition, then dominated by the conflicting influences of Neo-classicism and Romanticism.
Such was Delaroche’s success that it often exceeded that [...]
Italian Drawings at the British Museum
Monday, January 25th, 2010The British Museum
22 April–25 July 2010
Fra Angelico to Leonardo: Italian Renaissance Drawings
From the British Museum website:
Drawn from the two foremost collections in the field, this major exhibition features 100 exquisite drawings by Italian Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Verrocchio.
A unique collaboration between the Uffizi in Florence and the British Museum, the display [...]
Renaissance Ball at the V&A
Sunday, January 24th, 201029 January 2010, 18:30-22:00
Drawing on the masked tradition of the Commedia del arte join the V&A on a night dedicated to the amazing new Medieval & Renaissance Galleries and explore the V&A collection with a museum-wide programme of live music and performance. Dig out your best sparkling ball attire as the Last Tuesday Society bring [...]
Turning the Pages at the Royal Society
Wednesday, January 20th, 2010The Royal Society’s ‘Turning the Pages’ online gallery offers ‘high-quality digital facsimiles of manuscripts which replicate the physical experience of reading the original works as closely as possible’. Some software downloading is required but once that is in place you should have access to some treasures from the Royal Society’s collection. (There are three different [...]
German Historical Institute Seminars & Public Lectures
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010The German Historical Institute London regularly holds seminars and lectures on topics of general interest to British and German historians. Seminars are usually held every second Tuesday at 5pm during term time. Seminar papers are normally presented in English; knowledge of the German language is not necessary for participation.
Spring 2010
19 January
PD DR MARGRIT PERNAU (BERLIN)
Civility—An [...]
Past Caring: A Celebration of Love in History
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Celebrate Valentine’s 2010 with Love in History Week
6-14 February 2010
From walks exploring Bloomsbury’s romantic past to workshops on Valentine cards and love letters of old, the Past Caring festival will take place in some of London’s leading museums, archives and historic houses. The primary aim is to encourage new and existing audiences and to engage [...]
Skeletons in the Cupboard & Functional Breakdown
Monday, January 18th, 2010A Message from Our President:
Prof. Alex Walsham, (Exeter), Skeletons in the Cupboard: Relics after the English Reformation, Friday 29 Jan, 6.30 pm, Malet St, room 321.
Happy New Year! You are warmly invited to our first paper of 2010. Prof. Alex Walsham works on the religious and cultural history of early modern Britain, especially the [...]