Events
Symposium and Study Day with English Heritage
Wednesday 13th November 2024
Join us for a special partnership between the PGECR Country House Group and English Heritage at Marble Hill House in London. We will be exploring different ways you can work in country house heritage after your MA or PhD, and the different ways historic house research like yours is used in heritage orgs. During this full day from 9am-5pm we will have exclusive use of the house, and the unique opportunity to -
Meet with English Heritage curators and researchers and find out more about their roles
Have private tours of the newly restored Marble Hill
Talk with English Heritage about how to work with them after graduating
Discuss your research and find out about other group members’ projects
Network with PGECR Country House Group members you’ve met before, plus new members who just started their degrees this year
Engage in roundtable discussion and explore ways in which postgraduate collaborations with country houses work, and ways in which they need strengthening
Give a symposium paper (optional) to strengthen your CV
The structure of the day will be talks and tours in the morning, and then a roundtable after lunch. Speakers will have a set amount of time to present their project and discuss working with specific houses in different ways - i.e archives, conservation, art installation, curation, research, etc - and tell the group about the benefits and problems of working directly with country houses. This can be very informal (with or without slides). It will then open up a discussion with the audience with the aim to discuss ways in which postgraduate research is supported and challenged by working with country houses, and ways in which we can productively research historic houses going forward.
There are just 25 places available. Please sign up with Sarah only if you can definitely attend - (0405529@students.uca.ac.uk)
This day is possible because of the generosity of staff at English Heritage and Marble Hill, a Georgian house in Twickenham
The PGECR Country House Group Conference 2024
Call for papers:
The first annual conference of the PGECR Country House Group is sponsored by Birkbeck University of London, The University for the Creative Arts (UCA), The University of St Andrews, and Bloomsbury Publishing. It will be held in the beautiful Keynes Library room at Birkbeck University on Friday 1st March 2024. The call for papers is open to both group members and those not currently in the PGECR Country House Group, but is limited to postgraduate students and early career researchers.
The PGECR Country House Group is for anyone researching any aspect of the British country house in any era, you can see some of our group members’ projects in the Blog section. We currently have members who are studying for an MA or PhD, or working in universities or in historic houses and museums. We welcome proposals for 15-minute papers from any discipline, including (but not limited to) art history, film studies, fashion, history, architecture, heritage and museum studies, English literature, and the history of collecting. We welcome any explorations of the British country house in any historical period, as well as contemporary examinations of the country house.
Submissions for proposals are now open, the deadline is Friday 26th January 2024. Please email Sarah Moody (0405529@students.uca.ac.uk) your name, university or workplace, your course or job title, the title of your proposed paper, and an abstract no longer than 250 words.
If you have not submitted a conference proposal before, you might find our handy guide useful.
You can read about the conference here.
