Past events

Organisations and events to which the project team have contributed

Like a well-oiled machine? Lecture for The Trevithick Society, 11 June 2021, 6pm (delivered remotely)
Like a well-oiled machine? Lecture for English Heritage Volunteers, 3 June 2021, 6pm (delivered remotely)
Like a well-oiled machine? Lecture for the Friends of the Centre for English Local History, April 2021 (delivered remotely)
Like a well-oiled machine? Lecture for Somerset Industrial Archaeology Society, January 2021 (delivered remotely)
Comfort and Convenience in the Country House. The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, January 2021 (delivered remotely)

Like a well-oiled machine? Lecture for Newcomen Society Midlands Branch, December 2019
Victoria & Albert at Osborne Conference at Osborne House, Isle of Wight, organised by English Heritage, November 2019
Country House Technology Study Tours:

‘Enormous, complicated and highly articulated machines’ (Girouard, 1979): the introduction of domestic technology into country houses’. Lecture at Wentworth Woodhouse, South Yorkshire, May 2019
Technological innovations in Victorian and early Edwardian country houses. Lecture at University of Newcastle, March 2019
Technological innovations in Victorian and early Edwardian country houses. Lecture for Charnwood U3A, February 2019

Technological innovations in Victorian and early Edwardian country houses. Local History Saturday Seminar, Department of History, University of Nottingham, December 2018
Comfort and Convenience in the Country House, Kelmarsh Hall, Northamptonshire, July 2018
Country House Technology Study Tour, East Yorkshire, June 2018
Technology in the Country House, MSt. Building History students, University of Cambridge, at Holkham Hall, Norfolk, May 2018
Country House Technology, Annual Bryan Matthews Memorial Lecture, Rutland Local History and Record Society, March 2018
Technology in the Country House, Haldane Society, University of Leicester, February 2018

Technological innovations in the Country House, lecture as part of a day conference, The Long Sunset: the Country House c. 1840- 1940, for Sussex Past, King’s Church, Lewes, October 2017
Domestic technology in Victorian and early Edwardian country houses, study day, for Sussex Archaeological Society, October 2017
Country House Technology Study Tours:

Conservation and Context of Historic Interiors, Wightwick Manor (Part of MA in Historic Environment Conservation, Birmingham City University) April 2017
Domestic technology in Victorian and early Edwardian country houses, day for Surrey U3A Network, April 2017
Enormous, complicated and highly articulated machines’: the introduction of domestic technology in Victorian and early Edwardian country houses, Building History lecture, University of Cambridge, April 2017
The Braybrookes at Audley End: pioneers of technological innovation, Lecture to the Friends of Audley End House, April 2017
Technology in country house parks and gardens Spring lecture to the Leicestershire and Rutland Gardens Trust
Comfort and Convenience in the Country House, Lecture lunch at Calke Abbey for the National Trust, January 2017

Study Days at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire, for U3A, 26th September and 3rd October 2016
Technology in the Country House half-day event with lecture and guided tour at Audley End, Essex, 20th September 2016.
Country House Technology Study Tour: Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Surrey 65th Attingham Summer School, West Dean College
Conservation and Context of Historic Interiors, Wightwick Manor (Part of MA in Historic Environment Conservation, Birmingham City University)

Thomas Parker Centenary Celebration Day, Ironbridge
Conservation and Context of Historic Interiors, Wightwick Manor (Part of MA in Historic Environment Conservation, Birmingham City University)
Country House Technology Study Tour: East Anglia
Country House Technology Study Tour: North-west England

Country House Technology Study Tour: NE England and the Southern Scotland
Country House Technology Study Tour: Northern Ireland
Country House Technology Study Tour: The Welsh Borders
Conservation and Context of Historic Interiors, Attingham Park, Shropshire (Part of MA in Historic Environment Conservation, University of Birmingham Ironbridge Institute)
Friends of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum, Coalbrookdale
South Wales and West of England Industrial Archaeology Conference, Kidderminster
Reshaping Everyday Life: Improvement and Technology in worker’s housing, Oxford University Department of Continuing Education
Servicing the Country House, Day School for the University of Leicester Centre for the Country House, Lamport Hall, Leicestershire
Country House and its Landscape, University of Cambridge MSt. In Building History, Holkham Hall, Norfolk
Joseph Bramah Lecture, Barnsley
Queen’s University, Belfast

Council for British Archaeology East Midlands Region – day school on country house technology
Weekend Conference, Oxford University Department for Continuing Education, Rewley House, Oxford
U3A Bradgate Branch, Leicestershire
The Historical Association, Bath Branch
Staffordshire Industrial Archaeology Society
Friends of Leicestershire Museums
Centre for Country House Studies, University of Leicester (Lamport Hall) – day school on country house technology
Friends of Exeter Museum