24th May
Research Lunch
Jocelyn Anderson 'Ornaments and Honours: Country Houses as Cultural Treasures in the Eighteenth Century

29th May
Research Seminar
Christiane Hille 'Highly endowed in both Body and Mind': George Villiers, First Duke of Buckingham and the Triumph of Painting at the Stuart Court'

7th June
Research Lunch
Amy Shulman 
(University of Birmingham)
'Picture Post and the Photo Essay: Émigré Photographers and Cultural Narratives in Britain, 1938-1945'


Recent Publications

  • Citizen Portrait, Portrait Painting and the Urban Elite of Tudor and Jacobean England and Wales
  • Lucie Rie, Modernist Potter
  • Sterling and Gowan, Architecture from Austerity to Affluence
  • Under the Banyan Tree
  • William Burton Conyngham and His Irish Circle of Antiquarian Artists



Current Newsletter

Our newsletter, which we publish in January, May and September includes details of our academic events, forthcoming publications and the fellowships and grants we have awarded.

May 2013 Newsletter (download)