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SUMMARY:Royal Flirt or Femme Fatale?: Elizabeth I
DESCRIPTION:Queen Elizabeth I\, by English School. ©National Trust Images \nOnly the second crowned regnant Queen of England\, Elizabeth I’s love life was no private matter. From the day she was born\, Elizabeth was a pawn in the royal marriage game. Surprisingly\, she managed to get through her father’s\, her half-brother’s\, and her halfsister’s reigns without being married to form an advantageous foreign alliance. That meant that the topic of her marriage was a prime consideration when she came to the throne. \nElizabeth I’s marital status was serious business. According to Count de Feria\, the Spanish Ambassador\, “Everything depends upon the husband this woman may take.” Most people thought a leading candidate was Elizabeth’s long-time friend and suitor Robert Dudley. Their relationship was the cause of international speculation and gossip that likely dulled the interest of some foreign prospects. But Dudley wasn’t the only man trying to win the Queen’s heart and hand. \nWith suitors from all over Europe\, and plenty of willing candidates right at home\, Elizabeth conducted domestic and international business by considering and gently declining marriage proposals. Did she ever plan to marry? Or did she spend her reign winning the game of courtly love\, deliberately playing the men against each other\, and remaining the ever-unattainable object of desire? Scholar Carol Ann Lloyd looks at the men who tried to marry the Queen and explores Elizabeth’s possible motives for claiming and keeping her title of Virgin Queen. \n\nCarol Ann Lloyd\nCarol Ann Lloyd is a popular speaker and author who specializes in Early Modern History\, particularly English royal history\, the Tudors\, and Shakespeare. She has enjoyed speaking audiences across the country about Spies in the Tudor Court\, Henry VIII and his Six Wives\, Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots\, the Wars of the Roses\, Jane Austen\, Mothers of the Monarchs\, and Shakespeare. She is a popular speaker for Smithsonian\, Royal Oak Foundation\, Agecroft Hall\, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at George Mason University\, TEDx\, and numerous community venues. She is a member of the National Speakers Association and holds graduate degrees in Education from the University of Virginia and English from the University of Utah. The former Manager of Visitor Education of Folger Shakespeare Library\, Carol Ann now takes interactive Shakespeare programs into schools. She also delivers corporate communication workshops for organizations in the Washington\, DC area and is the author of Building Relationships\, One Conversation at a Time: A Guide for Work and Home. Carol Ann is currently writing a book about the Tudors and her Great Courses program about conversations. She loves traveling to London and experiencing history up close and personal. \nLIVE\nWednesday\, March 23 | 6:00 p.m. (ET) \nOnline via Zoom Webinar\n$15 ROF members; $20 non-members \nRENT\nFrom Thursday\, March 24 through Monday\, April 4 \nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$15 ROF members; $20 non-members
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/elizabeth-1/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220412T140000
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SUMMARY:Up and Downstairs: The English Country House Servant
DESCRIPTION:The story of domestic servants is inseparable from the story of the development of the English country house as it became an icon of power\, civilization and luxury. English country houses from the 17th century to the 20th century were reliant on an intricate hierarchy of servants\, each of whom provided an essential skill. This is particularly true with the great estates such as Chatsworth\, Knole\, Holkham Hall\, Waddesdon Manor\, Cliveden\, and Wilton\, among others. For centuries\, these grand houses were admired and imitated around the world. \nIn this lecture\, Jeremy Musson will look at 600 years of British country house life and discuss the activities and servant populations of country houses and the running of the daily life of a household. He will discuss how the presence of a large country house servant body influenced the planning and shaping of the houses architecture with the development of service zones of considerable sophistication. Drawing on both published and unpublished sources\, Mr. Musson will celebrate the voices of the servants who ran these vast houses and made them work. Through extracts from memoirs and letters\, he will explore some of the elaborate rituals and hierarchies of noble households right up until the late-20th century. \n  \nJeremy Musson\nJeremy Musson is a leading commentator and authority on the English Country House. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and sits on a number of boards and trusts including the Country House Foundation. He was awarded an M Phil in Renaissance History at the Warburg Institute\, University of London\, in 1989 and was Architectural Editor of Country Life from 1995-2007. Before joining Country Life in 1995\, Mr. Musson was an assistant regional curator for the National Trust in East Anglia\, curating historic houses such as Ickworth House\, and at the same time setting up the research and interpretation of new sites such as\, the ex-bomb testing range and nature reserve at Orford Ness in Suffolk. He has written and edited hundreds of articles on historic country houses\, from Garsington Manor to Knebworth House. Mr. Musson also presented 14 programmes on BBC 2\, making up two series called The Curious House Guest\, in 2005-07\, and he also lectures and supervises for academic programmes with Cambridge University\, London University and Buckingham University\, and the Attingham Summer School. Among his books include Up and Down Stairs: The History of the English Country House Servant (2009)\, English Country House Interiors (2011)\, Robert Adam: Country House Design\, Decoration & the Art of Elegance (2017)\, The Country House: Past\, Present\, Future: Great Houses of the British Isles (2018)\, and Romantics and Classics: Style in the English Country House (Rizzoli\, 2021). \n\nLIVE\nTuesday\, April 12 | 2:00 p.m. (ET)\nOnline via Zoom Webinar\n$15 ROF members; $20 non-members \nRENT\nFrom Wednesday\, April 13 to Monday\, April 25 \nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$15 ROF members; $20 non-members
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/house-servant/
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SUMMARY:Sense and Servility: Excess in the Regency
DESCRIPTION:In June 1811\, the newly titled Prince Regent held a grand fete\, raising his lips to the first glass of what would be many bottles of champagne. It was a sign of what was to mark this decade\, as the King’s exuberance would often outstrip his pocket at the people’s expense. \nMeanwhile\, the country under his control slowly and terrifyingly burned – the Luddites destroyed their machines\, the Weavers rioted\, the Duke of Wellington played military whack-a-mole with Napoleon\, and the Parthenon Marbles began to glint in the eye of Lord Elgin. \nArt dealer Angus Haldane will examine the extraordinary decade of 1811-1820 in which a Prime Minister was assassinated\, Pride and Prejudice was published\, and the Battle of Waterloo was won. \nA decade in which actresses charmed audiences with their talent on the stage and lived in fear (or hope) of being chosen as the next royal mistress. Years when The Prince Regent’s number of illegitimate children multiplied whilst Byron\, Shelley\, Walter Scott and Mary Wolstencraft intoxicated and challenged their readers with their words. \nAngus will discuss works from this period by Lawrence\, Raeburn\, Hoppner\, Constable and Turner. He will scrutinise Empire Line dresses\, décolleté necklines\, and fancy-dress frills as well as look at the architecture of John Nash\, the Brighton Pavilion\, and describe the excessive feasts which took place within. Join us as we learn how the Regency was a heady ten years of drama\, intrigue\, sex and politics! \n\nLIVE\nMonday\, April 18 | 6:00 p.m. (ET)\nOnline via Zoom Webinar\n$15 members; $20 non-members \n\nRENT\nFrom Tuesday\, April 19 to Thursday\, April 28 \nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$15 members; $20 non-members
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/sense-and-servility-excess-in-the-regency/
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SUMMARY:Spirit of England: Gin’s Intoxicating History
DESCRIPTION:Today gin is one of the most popular spirit drinks in England and It has enjoyed a huge revival in recent decades. This is witnessed not only in the burgeoning sales of the spirit every year\, but also in the rise of craft gin makers in many parts of the country. Its long history as a preferred English tipple can be traced back to the early 17th century when soldiers in King Charles’s army brought the Dutch spirit to England after fighting in the 30 Years War in Holland. \nBy the end of the century gin drinking was so common\, particularly in the capital that wages were sometimes paid in the spirit. By 1730\, gin had replaced French brandy as the favourite English spirit and there were 7000 gin shops in London alone; by 1750\, more than 10 million gallons of gin were being produced every year. \nSuch widespread use of the spirit\, particularly amongst the working class poor\, created huge social problems and Hogarth’s “Gin Lane” of 1751 gives a dramatic picture of the scale of the problem. Only after legislation to control production was passed by Parliament in that same year did the consumption of gin gradually abate\, but only for it to enjoy another revival in the 19th century when the rise of the Gin Palace became a feature of cities and towns up and down the land. \nIn this presentation\, historian Ian Cox traces the fascinating history of gin drinking in England from the 17th century to the present day\, highlighting the ebbing and flowing of its popularity and its prospects for the future. \n\nIan Cox\nIan Cox studied at the Universities of Keele\, London and Glasgow. He developed his career as a decorative arts historian in the 1980s and was the Director of the Christie’s Decorative Arts Programme at the University of Glasgow and then Director of Studies for Christie’s Education in London. Ian also ran a prestgious Decorative Arts Summer School for Christie’s in New York and was Co-Director of the Victorian Society of America London Summer School. Ian has published widely in the history of the decorative arts\, particularly on furniture and ceramics. In more recent times\, he has directed cultural holiday programmes for the ACE foundation in Cambridge and is a regular round the world lecturer for the Seabourn and Silverseas cruise lines. He has been a lecturer for The Royal Oak Foundation in the USA since 2006. \n\nLIVE\nTuesday\, April 26 | 2:00 p.m. (ET)\nOnline via Zoom Webinar\n$15 members; $20 non-members \nRENT\nFrom Wednesday\, April 27 to Monday\, May 9\nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$15 members; $20 non-members
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/spirit-of-england/
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SUMMARY:Noble Ambition: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House after WWII
DESCRIPTION:As the sun set slowly on the British Empire\, its mansions and great country houses fell and rose. Ancient families were reduced to demolishing the parts of their stately homes they could no longer afford\, Dukes and Duchesses desperately clung to their ancestral seats\, and a new class of homeowners bought their way into country life. For every impoverished country squire watching in horror as the taxman chipped away at the estate\, there was another who managed to carry on. \nHistorian Adrian Tinniswood\, OBE\, will pull us into these crumbling halls of power\, leading us through the juiciest bits of postwar aristocratic history—from Mick Jagger dancing at deb balls to the scandals of Princess Margaret or the the Marquess of Bath selling a village and buying lions. He will provide an illustrated tour of some English country homea after World War II—including National Trust properties Hinton Ampner\, Mount Stewart\, Hardwick Hall and Erdigg—and explain how swinging London collided with aristocratic values. Capturing the spirit of the age\, Tinniwood proves that the country house is not only an iconic symbol\, but also a lens through which to understand the shifting fortunes of the British elite in an era of monumental social change. \n   \nAdrian Tinniswood\nAdrian Tinniswood\, OBE is a Senior Research Fellow in History at the University of Buckingham. He is the author of 15 books on architectural and social history including the New York Times bestseller The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars and Behind the Throne: A Domestic History of the Royal Household\,The House Party: A Short History of Leisure\, Pleasure and the Country House Weekend. \nHis most recent book is Noble Ambitions: The Fall and Rise of the English Country House After WWII.  Tinniswood was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to heritage. \n\nLIVE\nTuesday\, May 3\, | 2:00 p.m. (ET)\nOnline via Zoom Webinar\n$15 members; $20 non-members \n\nRENT\nFrom Wednesday\, May 4 to Monday\, May 16\nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$15 members; $20 non-members
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/noble-ambition/
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SUMMARY:‘A Heaven on Earth’: William Morris’ Kelmscott Manor Revived
DESCRIPTION:Kelmscott Manor\, Oxfordshire\, is a rambling\, limestone-built farmhouse that was the country home of writer and designer William Morris from 1871 until his death in 1896. It was also home to his wife Jane (‘Janey’)\, their children Jenny and May\, and his friend\, poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti\, who shared it with them from 1871 until 1874. William Morris’s life and work as poet and designer\, conservationist and socialist campaigner have made Kelmscott Manor internationally famous. \nMorris thought of it as ‘a Heaven on Earth’\, and loved every aspect of its ancient stone architecture\, its barns\, and meadows\, and the village houses and landscape around it. The house remained the home of Morris’s wife Jane until her death in 1913 Their daughter May bequeathed the house after her death in 1938 to the University of Oxford. In the 1960s it passed to the Society of Antiquaries of London. Kelmscott has undergone a major programme of research and refurbishment\, including returning some lost colour schemes\, and recreating lost hangings and hand blocked wallpaper. The house will re-open to the public in April 2022. \nHistorian Jeremy Musson\, FSA\, author of the new guidebook on Kelmscott Manor will tell the story of the house and its remarkable owners\, William and Jane Morris. He will illustrate the interiors and talk about the artistic and creative connections of this architectural treasure. \nJeremy Musson\, FSA\nJeremy Musson is a leading commentator and authority on the English Country House. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and sits on a number of boards and trusts including the Country House Foundation. He was awarded an M Phil in Renaissance History at the Warburg Institute\, University of London\, in 1989 and was Architectural Editor of Country Life from 1995-2007. Before joining Country Life in 1995\, Mr. Musson was an assistant regional curator for the National Trust in East Anglia\, curating historic houses such as Ickworth House\, and at the same time setting up the research and interpretation of new sites such as\, the ex-bomb testing range and nature reserve at Orford Ness in Suffolk. He has written and edited hundreds of articles on historic country houses\, from Garsington Manor to Knebworth House. \nMr. Musson also presented 14 programmes on BBC 2\, making up two series called The Curious House Guest\, in 2005-07\, and he also lectures and supervises for academic programmes with Cambridge University\, London University and Buckingham University\, and the Attingham Summer School. Among his books include Up and Down Stairs: The History of the English Country House Servant (2009)\, English Country House Interiors (2011)\, Robert Adam: Country House Design\, Decoration & the Art of Elegance (2017)\, The Country House: Past\, Present\, Future: Great Houses of the British Isles (2018)\, and Romantics and Classics: Style in the English Country House (Rizzoli\, 2021). \n\nLIVE\nTuesday\, May 24| 2:00 p.m. (ET)\nOnline via Zoom Webinar\n$15 members; $20 non-members \n\nRENT\nFrom Wednesday\, May 25 to Monday\, June 6 \nRent the recorded lecture to watch at your leisure\n$15 members; $20 non-members
URL:https://www.royal-oak.org/event/a-heaven-on-earth-william-morris-kelmscott-manor-revived/
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