EVENTS

Lectures at University of Leicester
14 February 2007
Centre for the Study of the Country House
‘A Few Very Fine Things and a Vast Deal of Tiresome Stuff’ Women and the Grand Tour in the Eighteenth Century.
Professor Rosemarie Sweet, Leicester
7 March 2007
‘Craftsmen and Labourers:
The Unsung Heroes in the History of the Country House’
Professor Richard Wilson, East Anglia
Drinks reception at 6.30pm
Lectures 7.00pm in the Great Hall
Cost each £10
Tickets: Mrs Carol Charles: cec7ATle.ac.uk
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Thursday, 22 March 2007
AGT Research Lectures,
at Swedenborg Hall, Holborn, London at 2.00pm
Jennifer Meir:
'Sanderson Miller and his Landscapes' and
Michael Symes:
'The Picturesque and the Sublime'
Contact: Kate Harwood:
agt@gardens-trusts.org.uk

Tuesday 15 May 2007
Study Day at Rufford Abbey
Leicestershire & Rutland Gardens Trust
‘Rufford Revealed: The History of the Gardens from Cistercian utility to Edwardian Opulence’. Cost £30
Contact: Lucy Alcock, Rufford Country Park, Ollerton, Newark, Nottinghamshire NG22 9DF
Tel: 01623 821313.
E-mail: lucy.alcockATnottscc.gov.uk

August
(date and time to be arranged)
AGT/BGT Study Day
in Buckinghamshire - maybe at Hartwell.
Contact: Kate Harwood:
agtATgardens-trusts.org.uk

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