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All of our lectures are live streamed and are open to anyone to join us online, Fellows and Non-Fellows.

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Event Series Evening Lectures

The Materiality and Historical Dress of Early Modern Hunting – An Interdisciplinary Approach

Online Only , United Kingdom

In this presentation, Dr Neighbors explores how clothing and materiality played an important role in the sociability, visual culture, identity of hunting participants, and practices of early modern hunting, and exhibits, for the first time, the digital renderings of the hunting garments produced during his 2023 Janet Arnold Grant funded project.

Event Series Evening Lectures

Iron Road; writing the history of the railway from 1750 to 1850

Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

As mine handling systems, railways have been around since the Middle Ages but were transformed between 1750 and 1850 by adopting iron components and mechanical operation, superseding roads and canals as the transport systems for the Industrial age. David Gwyn discusses their evolution and how to share the history of the ‘iron road’.

Event Series Lunchtime Lectures

Queen Caroline and the Power of Caricature in Georgian England

Society of Antiquaries of London Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, United Kingdom

Explore the remarkable role of Georgian caricature in the equally remarkable Queen Caroline controversy of 1820–21. The trial of the queen for alleged adultery produced many extraordinary images in which Caroline triumphs over her cowardly and conniving enemies, subverting gender and political hierarchies, and giving a voice to the millions of British men and women who supported her cause.