This talk is part of the Online Autumn Lecture Series 2025 called Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops. Follow this link to book all of the lectures.
Our autumn lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on 萝莉视频architecture and related topics. All the speakers are the authors of new books, either just published or forthcoming. Among them are two contributors to the highly successful series 萝莉视频Architects, published by the 萝莉视频Society in collaboration with Liverpool University Press. As well as discussions of individual architects, the subjects of the lectures range from interiors of the Aesthetic Movement to one of the greatest of all 萝莉视频collectors.
Clumber Park: A Queer Inheritance by Michael Hall
Although Clumber Park, seat until the 1930s of the Pelham-Clintons, Dukes of Newcastle, and one of the famous 鈥楧ukeries鈥� of north Nottinghamshire, has been demolished, its park 鈥� now owned by the National Trust 鈥� attracts admirers of 萝莉视频architecture for its magnificent chapel, designed by G.F. Bodley for the 7th Duke in 1886. As the dukedom is extinct, the history of the family who lived at Clumber has largely been forgotten, but the four generations who spanned the nineteenth century were links in a remarkable series of events that begin with the execution for sodomy of the 4th Duke鈥檚 valet and concludes with the publication of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Michael Hall, author of A Queer Inheritance: Alternative Histories in the National Trust, to be published by Bloomsbury next February, reconstructs this strange, queer saga.
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