Events

Explore the research potential of their archives, library and museum collections at Burlington House, and discover how their digitisation and cataloguing is progressing, and how this is enhancing their research potential.

Introductory Tour for Fellows

The modern books that we hold in our hands today – and the visual texture of the pages within them – took their current form during the middle decades of the eighteenth century. In this illustrated lecture, Richard Wendorf examines the changes in capitalization, italicization, quotation marks, and title-pages that have produced the texts and volumes with which we are familiar today, while also considering the larger cultural developments that made these changes possible.

Tourism of ‘Dickens’s London’ flourished at the turn of the twentieth century, from tours and guidebooks, to magic lantern shows and merchandising. Dr Lee Jackson analyses the origins of this phenomenon, rooted in Dickens’s own imaginative antiquarianism – his love of ‘old buildings and curious people’ – and yet, paradoxically, exemplifying the sort of tourist spectacle that he often derided.

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Looking at the uniquely rich insight Eastern Caelian offers into the transformation of Rome from the Classical World to Late Antiquity.

Join us to celebrate the end of the year with our Annual Christmas Soirée and Mulled Wine Reception.

A tour of Burlington House for Affiliate Members

Presenting a recent research project, combining traditional and scientific methods, into an iconic object held at the Museum of London: a knitted undergarment – or ‘waistcoat’ – thought to have royal connections.

Visit and explore the Society on our open Fridays.