2007 WILLIAM MORRIS SOCIETY EVENTS IN THE UK

Society Events: 2007 Programme

Unless otherwise stated, all lectures are at Kelmscott House and tickets for these cost £4 for WMS members and £5 for non-members. Write for tickets to Ticket Applications, The William Morris Society, Kelmscott House, 26 Upper Mall, Hammersmith, London W6 9TA, enclosing payment (cheques payable to "The William Morris Society") and a stamped addressed envelope.

Disclaimer: Attendees participate in events at their own risk; neither the Society, its officers, nor the organisers of any events accept any liability of any kind whatsoever, howsoever arising. The William Morris Society reserves the right to cancel, alter, or postpone events if necessary. Members are reminded that they should have adequate personal and travel insurance. No refunds unless cancelled by the Society, in which case a credit note will be given. Kindly note that the Society's premises have limited wheelchair access. The William Morris Society and Kelmscott Fellowship: Registered Charity No. 261437.

Saturday, 27 January, 2.15pm
Wood Engraving and the Illustrative Connection
June Crisfield Chapman studied at the Glasgow School of Art. While studying she became fascinated by the possibilities and qualities of line and was led towards specialising in wood engraving. She has lectured widely, and her talk will explain the process and also the difference between wood cuts and wood engravings. She has a series of her wood engravings about Chaucer’s ‘Tales’ and ‘Sigurd the Volsung’. She is also interested in theatre which developed into portraiture: her painting of Athene Seyler now hangs in the Coach House.

Saturday 10 February, 2.15pm
Ernest Gimson: Architect, Designer, and Archetypal Arts and Crafts Man
The talk will be given by Mary Greensted of the award-winning Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, where she has developed and expanded the Arts and Crafts Movement’s collections. She has written widely on the Movement, including a contribution to the book accompanying the V&A’s recent ‘International Arts and Crafts ‘ exhibition. The talk will set the scene to Gimson’s involvement with the Movement, including the impact of William Morris. Mary will introduce the range of his work both as an architect and as a designer, looking at metalwork, plasterwork and embroidery as well as furniture. Gimson’s main motivation however was to provide employment and training through his workshops. She will describe the way workshops were run and discuss the longer term impact of Gimson’s work.

Saturday 24 March, 2.15pm
William Morris: Man of Contradictions
         William Morris’s life and work were full of contradictions. He was both Socialist and shopkeeper, capitalist and Communist. He held up the handwork of the medieval craftsman as a model of freedom and creativity, but the experience of making up the pattern designs for which he was famous was both mechanical and repetitive. People often use these contradictions as a pretext for dismissing him: how can we admire a man who spent half his time preaching equality and revolution and the other half catering to the swinish luxury of the rich? This lecture turns that dismissal on its head, arguing that Morris’s ability to embrace the contradictions implicit in his life and work was a large part of his greatness, part of his stature in his later years.
         Alan Crawford is a freelance historian who specialises in the study of the Arts & Crafts movement, and has written about the work of CR Ashbee and of Charles Rennie Mackintosh. He is currently working on Court Barn, a new museum in Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, which will present the work of artists, architects, designers and craftspeople in Chipping Campden and the north Cotswolds during the 20th C. Court Barn has been generously supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, and will include a permanent exhibition, archive and study facilities, and a meeting room and temporary exhibition space. It is due to open in the summer of 2007. The afternoon will include the annual celebration of the birthday of William Morris with wine and cake, which this year does fall on the Saturday, although he was actually born on a Monday.

Tuesday 24 April
Visit to a Pottery and ‘Standen’
         The plan is to visit the pottery at Pevensey of Jonathan Chiswell Jones. Readers will recall three well illustrated articles in the Newsletter, (Autumn 2003, Summer 2004 and Spring 2006,) mainly written by Jonathan and describing his approach and techniques. He is particularly interested in lustre ware, which was re-discovered by William De Morgan. After lunching at a suitable hostelry ‘en route’ we shall arrive at the National Trust’s ‘Standen’ and have a guided tour of this Philip Webb house complete with internal Morris & Co decorations. After tea and biscuits we return to Hammersmith.
         The coach will leave at 8.30am from the Apollo Theatre, Hammersmith, returning at about 6.30pm. Tickets, including coach travel, and fees, but not lunch, will be about £29, to be confirmed when numbers are finalised on 28 February.
         Please apply early as soon as possible by writing to the William Morris Society marked ‘Pottery/Standen’, with an SAE.

Saturday 12 May, 2.15pm
Gardens of the Arts & Crafts Movement
         Judith Tankard, our speaker, lives in Massachusetts. She is an architectural and garden historian, and a teacher at the Landscape Institute, Harvard University. She is founding editor of the "Journal of the New England Garden History Society" and the awardwinning author of several books on garden architecture. A synopsis of her talk will appear in the next Newsletter.

Saturday 19 May, 2.00pm
The William Morris Society’s 52nd Annual General Meeting
         This year’s meeting will take place at the Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London E2 8EA. During 2006 the permanent galleries have been re-displayed as part of a major refurbishment project, with additional interpretation relating to the urban middle class domestic interiors. It is therefore suggested that instead of a short talk following the formalities of the meeting, members should avail themselves of the opportunity to visit the new galleries, temporary exhibition spaces and award winning gardens. The museum has a restaurant supplying hot and cold lunches. Admission is free to the museum and to the AGM, and tea and biscuits will be provided.

Saturday 9 June, 2.30 – 5.00pm
Garden Party at Kelmscott House
         Joy and Jock Birney, who live in the main part of Kelmscott House, are once again generously opening their garden and house to members.

Saturday 30 June, 2.15pm
A Collection of Designer Bookbindings to Celebrate Socialism
         This talk will be given by our member Lord Tom Sawyer of Darlington, and the following is an introduction to both his project and the talk. Some books will be completed by this time and examples will be on display. ‘Over the next years it is my intention to commission the binding of a collection of books by members of the Guild of Designer Bookbinders to celebrate the birth and achievements of socialism. My brief definition of socialism is basically about the emancipation of working people and would include books that have championed this idea, as well as books about individuals or movements which have helped to bring it about. I want to interpret this progress as widely as possible and to reflect my own interests in the role played by the Arts and Crafts Movement through such people as William Morris and Walter Crane. The first book, for 2005, has been commissioned. It is ‘Socialism, its Growth and Outcomes’ by William Morris and Belfort Bax, large paper edition, limited to 275 copies, 1893, and will be bound by Stuart Brockman. The second book, for 2006, has been chosen. It is the introduction to William Morris’s ‘Artist, Socialist and Writer’, edited by May Morris, two volumes limited to 275 copies, 1936, and will be bound by Stephen Conway. By the time of the lecture, the choice of other books will have been made, and Tom will share his ideas with us; and it is hoped will be accompanied by other bookbinders.

Saturday 28 July, 2.15pm
Morris and Merton
This illustrated talk will be given by Judith Goodman, a member of the Society for twelve years. She has been interested in exploring Morris’s relations with the area he chose for his workshops, and also in examining the setting in which he found himself. In so doing she has been able to find material not generally known: his workforce, the site itself and his involvement in local affairs. Judith has been a local historian in Merton for more than twenty years and is the current Chair of Merton Historical Society.

Wednesday 1 August, 10.30am
Visit to Brighton
          The day will be spent in Brighton and its environs, viewing several churches which contain significant examples of decorative art created by Morris himself and his associates.
          We shall meet at Brighton Railway Station and board a coach to take us to St Bartholomew and St Paul before lunch, and St Michael and The Annunciation after, before rounding off the day at St Margaret’s, Rottingdean, Burne-Jones parish church. We should return to the Railway Station at about 5.30pm. You are advised to bring a picnic lunch. The cost is £18 and includes local coach hire and donations to the churches visited.
         

Saturday 18 August, 2.15pm
Kelmscott Press: Looking backwards to look forward
          William Morris came late to book design and publishing. His good friend Emery Walker was a considerable influence on his thinking about the ideal book. Whilst Morris’s lifelong love of medieval illuminated manuscripts and literature was dominant in his ambition for the Press, his evolving views on quality printing and some of the Press editions pointed ways forward and had a lasting influence on the fine printing revival in the 20th century. Although the course of Morris’s ‘typographical adventure’ has been well charted by biographers, some mysteries still remain.

Saturday 1 September, 2.15pm
Aspects of the Arts and Crafts Movement in Hungary
          The 2005 International Arts and Crafts exhibition at the V&A and books by Wendy Kaplan (2004) and Rosalind P Blakesley (2006) have shown that the Arts and Crafts movement was truly a world movement influencing all the pure and applied arts, especially in the period 1880-1914. Hungary was a major player on the world stage at that time, and this talk will bring to life the Hungarian artists, architects and designers involved, discuss their ideas and show their products.
          The lecture will be given by David A Hill, who is a freelance writer working out of Budapest.

Thursday 13 September, 10.30am
Visit to Whitelands College, Roehampton
          The College, now part of the University of Roehampton, recently moved their campus here from Putney. They brought with them the reredos and several stained glass windows from the chapel, all produced by Morris & Co. Following conservation work they have been installed in their new home. After coffee we shall see these artefacts in the new settings. We shall also be shown some of the dresses made specially for the annual May Queen Festival instituted by a former Principal of the College after a suggestion by John Ruskin in 1881.
          Please meet in the foyer of the entrance to the College, which is a five-minute walk from the centre of Roehampton village. Travel by car or No 72 bus from Hammersmith. Tickets £5 from the William Morris Society.

Saturday 15 September, 1.00-5.00pm
London Open House Day
          Once again, the basement of Kelmscott House, including the printing room, library, and the Coach House on the ground floor will be open to the public at this time. The number of visitors has been increasing and this creates a busy time for volunteers to ‘man the barricades’. But it is in fact a rewarding experience to have the opportunity to inform visitors about William Morris: they are always interested to know more of the man and his times. If you can help, please contact our Curator, Helen Elletson, at Kelmscott House on any Thursday or Saturday afternoon.

Tuesday 2 October, 2.00-4.30pm
Collections and Library Day
          This joint event will highlight some of the printed treasures from the collection and library at Kelmscott House, including examples from the Kelmscott Press.
          The library has recently been re-classified and this process will be demonstrated. The Society has an Albion printing press, used by Morris at the Kelmscott Press, and there will be an opportunity to see the press working. Tickets £4 (£5 non-members), including tea and biscuits. Apply early as numbers are strictly limited.

Saturday 6 October, 2.15pm
Recital by Elatos
          Byron Mahoney will again be joined by friends to give a recital of baroque music based around the clavichord. The programme of pieces is yet to be determined, and will be given in the Society’s Newsletter nearer the time. Admission free but a collection will be made to cover expenses.

Saturday 24 November, 2.15pm
The 2007 Kelmscott Lecture
          From Morris’s Early Writings to his Mature Aesthetic Ideals.
          It has been decided to hold the Kelmscott Lecture in the Coach House at Kelmscott House, and Florence Boos has kindly agreed to deliver it this year. She has decided therefore to revise the content and title from that previously published to take account of this. The synopsis of her lecture will appear in a subsequent Newsletter. Tickets: as for other lectures. The afternoon will conclude with wine and light refreshments.

Saturday 1 December, 2.15pm
Poetry Readings
          Members of the Society, led by Dorothy Coles, will present an afternoon of readings from Morris’s own and related works. The detailed programme will be published in the summer edition of the Newsletter. Tickets: as for lectures.

WHAT’S ON ELSEWHERE

Exhibitions

Antiquarian Book Fair
Olympia, London
7 -9 June 2007
Unpublished illustrated letters from Sir Edward Burne-Jones are a highlight at the Antiquarian Book Fair. A collection of 53 unpublished autographed and illustrated letters from Sir Edward Burne-Jones toViolet Maxse (later Viscountess Milner) is one of the highlights of this year’s Antiquarian Book Fair at Olympia in London (7-9 June 2007). These charming and often humorous letters from about 1893-1897 are in two albums and are mainly on the artist’s personal letterhead; they vary in length from one to twelve pages and are written in ink with drawings in pencil, pen and ink and wash. These are the letters of an elderly gentleman writing to a young friend, some are frivolous while others are more serious such the one in which he describes his sadness at the death of his friend William Morris. His letters are dotted with wonderful caricatures such as hefty lady Wagnarian singers and the famous American Tattoed Lady, while others are caricatures of himself before and after a visit to the tailor or ill in bed. The collection is for sale at the Antiquarian Book Fair and can be seen on the stand of David Brass Rare Books Inc. The Antiquarian Book Fair is the largest and most prestigious event of its kind in Europe and the oldest established book fair in the world. This international Fair boasts ‘something for everyone’, no matter how obscure the subject, there is bound to be a book about it! Over 140 of the world’s top booksellers are taking part, offering everything from illuminated manuscripts, early printed books, modern first editions and ‘ultra moderns’ to maps, atlases, prints, letters, autographs and vintage photographs. The Fair is the perfect place to browse, discuss, compare, learn and buy; prices range from £30 to £500,000. It is organised by the august Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association, which means that all its members have been carefully vetted so the public can buy with confidence. Opening times: Thursday 7th June 4pm-9.00pm, Friday 8th June 11.00am-7.00pm, Saturday 9th June 11.00am-6.00pm. The Antiquarian Book Fair is delighted to offer free tickets (normally £15.00) to members of the William Morris Society (email william.morris @ care4free.net).

british Library, 96 Euston Rd, London NW1.
London: A Life in Maps
Until 4 March 2007
Sacred: Three Religions of the Book
April-September 2007
T 0207412 7332

Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, Dulwich Village, London SE21.
Sir Joshua’s Mona Lisa & Highlights from the Brinsley Ford Collection: Richard Wilson and the Grand Tour
Until 11 February 2007
Canaletto in England: A Venetian Artist Abroad 1746-1755
24 January-5 April
T 020 8693 5254
www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk

fitzwilliam museum, cambridge
Rembrandt & Saskia
Until 11 March 2007
T 01223 332900

the museum of Fulham Palace, Bishops Avenue, London SW6 6EA.
Open Saturdays: 11am-2pm, Sundays: 11.30-3.30 and Mondays and Tuesdays: 12.00-4.00pm.
The main historic rooms around the east courtyard have been restored and Bishop Sherlock’s Room, with its beautiful rococo ceiling, is on show. New displays open in March 2007.
www.fulhampalace.org

geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London E2: closed Mondays.
At Home in London 1600-1800
New 17^th & 18^thC rooms now open
T 020 7739 9883
www.geffrye-museum.org.uk

guildhall Art gallery, Guildhall Yard, London EC2
William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age
Until 4 March
T 020 7332 3859
www.guildhall-art-gallery.org.uk

Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Market Square, Preston, PR1 2PP
Stuck up and Downtrodden: Decorative Victorian and Edwardian Tiles
William de Morgan, Islamic inspired designs, c.1907: until summer 2007.
This is the first ever exhibition of the Harris’s fine collection of decorative tiles which were used for walls, fireplaces and floors in Victorian and Edwardian homes. Many of the patterns help to show how Islamic and Japanese cultures influenced our domestic environment. Most of the tiles come from the collection of Edgar F Millington who was a fireplace maker in Avenham Street, Preston.
T 01772 258248

cecil higgins art gallery, Castle Lane, Bedford, MK 40
Blake to Sutherland: The Romantic Tradition
23 January-17 June
Featuring artists including Burne-Jones, Beardsley, Millais, Palmer, Blake and Sutherland.
T 01234 211222
www.cecilhigginsartgallery.org

hoglands House, perry green, hertfordshire.
The Opening of Henry Moore’s Home
2 April-14 October 2007

Imperial war museum, Lambeth Road, London SE1 6 HZ
Henry Moore: War & Utility
Until 25 February
The Animals’ War
Until 22 April
T 102 7416 5320

kettle’s yard, Cambridge
50^th Anniversary Exhibition: We the Moderns: Gaudier-Brzeska & His European Contemporaries.
20 January-18 March 2007
T 01223 352124

Leighton House Museum, 12 Holland Park Road, London, W14 8LZ
A Victorian Master: Drawings by Frederic, Lord Leighton
Until 25 February 2007. Daily except Tuesdays, 11.00am-5.30pm: £3, Concessions £1
In celebration of the completion of the Leighton Drawings Project, the drawings of Frederic Leighton, one of the foremost Victorian draughtsmen, will be displayed in the house where many were created. Most of the drawings have not been seen for more than fifty years. They will lead the visitor through Leighton’s life and career, pausing to focus on works from three distinct periods in his life, and culminating with studies for his last painting, Clytie, displayed alongside the dramatic work itself.

Lady Lever art gallery, Port Sunlight, Wirral, CH62
Merchant Palaces
16 February-13 May
Photographs of the lost interiors of Liverpool and Wirral’s Victorian houses.
T 0151 478 4136
www.ladyleverartgallery.org.uk

the museum of Domestic design & architecture, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT.
Come Out to Live, Come in to Play
Until 3 June
The story of the relationship between London and its suburbs told through London Underground posters from the 1920s and 30s, including designs by Paul Nash, Edward McKnight Kauffer and Barnett Freedman.
T 020 8411 5244
www.moda.mdx.ac.uk

National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
Renoir Landscapes 1865-83
21 February-20 May
www.nationalgallery.org.uk

Oxford University
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Study week
22-28 Jul 2007
It may be of interest to members to know that there is a study week in Oxford this coming July (22-28th) entitled 'William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement'. The course will examine both the life and the influence of Morris as a romantic reaction to industrialisation, in his creative work and his political and social philosophy. It will fully explore the influence of his early years and time at Oxford with an opportunity to see significant Oxford sites which influenced him, and the Morris works to be found in the city and university; including Exeter College, Hollywell Street where Jane Burden spent much of her early life, the painted ceilings in the Union society by Morris, Rosetti, Burne-Jones et al., Burne-Jones tapestries and stained glass, and vernacular cottages saved by Morris thus prompting the movement for heritage preservation. There will also be an opportunity to visit Morris's Kelmscott Manor and the Arts and Crafts Rodmarton Manor in the Cotswolds. As course tutor, I have had a life long interest in Morris and his philosophy, as a young college leaver becoming apprenticed to an English furniture maker directly in the Arts and Crafts tradition , and latterly lecturing on design history and material culture at a design college in Oxford, as well as running continuing education courses for Oxford University. The course is situated in the beautiful Christchurch College as part of the 'Oxford Experience'. Further details can be obtained from http://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/international/oxfordexperience.asp or The Oxford Experience, OUDCE, 1 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JA, >+44(0)1865 270428.

The queen’s house, Greenwich.
Until 2 September 2007
200 paintings from the National Maritime Museum’s collection.
Admission free
T 0870 780 4563
www.nmm.ac.uk

Royal academy of arts, Piccadilly, London W1J OBD.
Chola: Sacred Bronzes of Southern India
Until 25 February
Citizens & Kings; Portraits in the Age of Revolution, 1760-1830
3 February-20 April 2007
Unknown Monet: Pastels & Drawings
17 March-10 June
T 020 7300 8000
www.royalacademy.org.uk

Tate Britain, Millbank, London
Hogarth
7 February-28 April 2007
T 020 7887 8888
www.tate.org.uk

Lectures and Conferences

the museum of Domestic design & architecture, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet, Herts EN4 8HT.
Constructed Landscapes
17 March, 10am-4pm
A study day exploring the ways in which the urban, suburban and rural landscapes were constructed in a variety of cultural forms during the interwar period.
£35, concessions £27
Guided Walk
19 May, c10.30am-12.30pm
Starting at Golders Green underground station.
To mark the centenaries of the opening of the Hampstead Tube and the founding of Hampstead Garden suburb, Oliver Green will lead a walk around the area, exploring the tube line’s impact on the area and the different forms of suburban development which followed.
£10, concessions £7, book in advance.
T 020 8411 5244
www.moda.mdx.ac.uk

Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield School of English, University of Sheffield, Sir William Empson House, Shearwood Road, Sheffield S10 2TD
International Interdisciplinary Conference
The Voice of the People: The European Folk Revival, 1760-1914
Friday 7-Sunday 9 September 2007
The rediscovery and revalidation of the 'culture of the people' was a defining feature of artistic and intellectual life in the societies of 19^th and late 18^thC Europe, and it underpinned many of the key ideological tendencies of the times. Romantics and pre-Romantics articulated their sense of the inadequacy of cosmopolitan rationalism by espousing the cultural productions of ordinary (uneducated, rural) people as repositories of pre-rational truth and authentic experience. The nostalgic imitation, collection and study of folksong, folktale, folk custom and folk belief which this engendered became a process of linguistic, historical and mythical identity-formation with powerful political consequences; and the new nationalism which increasingly destabilised the European political order over the course of the nineteenth century gained its legitimacy from such activity. At the same time, radical movements from the late 18^thC onwards found sustenance in evidence of the cultural autonomy and superiority of ordinary people, in customs and festivals, songs and story-telling. 19^thC socialism did not seek to root itself in resuscitated systems of myth, but its mythologisation of the proletariat had a related intellectual impetus. The European 19^thC, it can be said, was the age of the people and peoples, of masses and nations; and the cultural expression of this identity was the folk revival.
The proposed conference aims to encompass the span of the European folk revival from its beginnings in the middle of the 18^thC to its cataclysm, the war of the peoples, World War One. The revival's British emergence from 1760 in works such as Macpherson's Ossian or Percy's Reliques will be traced. Its reception and philosophical development in Germany by JG Herder and its further elaboration by British, German and French Romanticism (Wordsworth and Coleridge, Renan and Arnold, Novalis and the Schlegels, Arnim, Brentano and the Grimms) will be examined. The folkloristic or popular-cultural dimensions both of 19^thC socialist utopias - Saint-Simon, Marx, William Morris - and of the diverse national movements of 19^thC Europe, from Ireland to Italy, Belgium to Bulgaria and beyond, will be observed.
www.c19.group.shef.ac.uk/folkrevival.html

the twentieth century society, 70 Cowcross St, London EC1M 6EJ.
C20 SOCIETY SPRING LECTURE SERIES
Home and Away
1 February – 8 March 2007
The theme of the spring lecture series is ‘Home and Away’, interchanges of ideas on housing between Britain and Europe in the 20^thC. Conceived by Alan Powers and Elain Harwood, it focuses on the interplay of continental influences: how we gave Europe the Garden City, and they in return gave us more sophisticated ideas of designing housing and especially flats, from Garchey systems to point blocks and prefabrication. The series will focus on all aspects of housing, including architectural style, construction and objects in the home.
All lectures will take place at the Gallery, 70 Cowcross St, on Thursdays at 6.30, for six weeks beginning 25 January 2007 – please note that there is no lecture on 22 February.
Single tickets: members £7, non-members £9, students £5
Season ticket: members £33, non-members £44, students £25
All lectures will include a glass of wine

• 25 January
  Richard Hayward
  Flucht aus der Stadt und Rueckehr zur Stadt: Trans-national Reflections before and after the Blossoming of Garden Suburbs and Cities
  Richard Hayward is Head of the School of Architecture and Construction at University of Greenwich and founding editor of the quarterly refereed journal Urban Design International. He has an enduring interest in the history of urban form and housing.
• 1 February
  Alan Powers
  William Morris was a Swede: international cross currents in twentieth century domestic furnishings and interiors
  Alan Powers is Reader in Architecture and Cultural History at the University of Greenwich. His research has produced several books and exhibitions, including Tayler and Green in 1998 and Elegant Variation: the Architecture of H T Cadbury-Brown now at the Royal Academy. His book on The Twentieth Century House in Britain was published in 2004, and the next, Britain, in the series ‘Modern Architectures in History’ will be published soon by Reaktion.
• 8 February
  Michael White
  Rotterdam vs. Amsterdam: Urbanism and Social Housing in the Netherlands after the First World War
  Michael White is a lecturer in History of Art at the University of York. He has researched the wider cultural significance of the De Stijl movement in the context of modernising projects in Netherlands, as described in his book 'De Stijl and Dutch Modernism' (Manchester University Press, 2003).
• 15 February
  Nicholas Bullock
  The Industrialisation of the Building Industry in France in the 1950s: Aspiration and Achievement
  Nicholas Bullock is Reader in Architecture and the Moving Image at the Cambridge School of Architecture and has written and lectured extensively on public housing in Britain and France.
• 1 March 2007
  Neave Brown
  Housing 1962-2002
  Neave Brown is best known in Britain for his work for LB Camden Architects’ Department, including the Alexandra Road Estate, but has also worked in Italy and the Netherlands. He is thus a rare example of an architect who has built housing ‘Home and Away’ and here he talks about his work and its influences.
• 8 March 2007
  Peter Carolin
  Housing smorgasbord:  the Scandinavian influence
  Peter Carolin was until recently head of the Cambridge School of Architecture, and formerly Editor of the Architects’ Journal. He will show the broad range of Scandinavian influence on British housing.

The Victorian Society
All lectures are at the Art Workers’ Guild, 6 Queen Square, London WC1 at 6pm for 6.30pm
Full information about joining the society, regional activities and bookings is available from its headquarters at 1 Priory Gardens, Bedford Park, London W4 ITT
T 020 8994 1019
events@victoriansociety.org.uk
www.victorian-society.org.uk