Past events

Organisations and events to which the project team have contributed

2021

• 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)

2019

• 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:
• North-west England, October 2019
• The Weald of Kent and Sussex, June 2019
• ‘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

2018

• 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

2017

• 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:
• The Welsh Borders, April 2017
• South-west England, June 2017
• Northern Ireland, August 2017
• North-east England and the Scottish Borders, September 2017
• 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

2016

• 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)

2015

• 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

2014

• 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

2013

• Country House Technology Study Tour: SW England
• Ironbridge Gorge Museums Archaeology Group
• Husband’s Bosworth Local History Society
• Thurcaston and Cropston Local History Society
• Market Harborough Historical Society

2012

• Gerrard’s Cross Summer School, Buckinghamshire
• East Leake Local History Society
• U3A Charnwood Branch

2011

• Vale of the White Horse Industrial Archaeology Group
• U3A Thame branch
• North West Leicestershire National Trust Group
• Manchester Industrial Archaeology Society
• Society for Lincolnshire History and Archaeology (lecture and conference)
• Greater London Industrial Archaeology Society
• Cumbria Industrial History Society Conference

2010

• 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

2009

• University of Newcastle – day school on country house technology
• Oxford House Industrial Archaeology Society, South Wales
• Derbyshire Archaeological Society

2007

• The Victorian Society Leicestershire Branch
• The Victorian Society