Online Lecture: Clotilde Brewster: A Life in Perspective: the Journey of the First Female international Architect

Laura Fitzmaurice discusses the life of Clotilde Brewster (1874–1937) who became the first woman to work internationally as an architect.

Online Lecture: Rhoda and Agnes Garrett, ‘House Decorators’: the History of a Business, 1874–1905 by Elizabeth Crawford

Elizabeth Crawford discusses the first women to run a professional interior design business.

Online Lecture: A W N Pugin and Women by Rosemary Hill

Pugin’s biographer explores the role women played in both Pugin’s personal and professional life

Online Lecture: Victorian Chatelaine: Emily Meynell Ingram of Temple Newsam, by James Lomax

The lecture will explore the life and legacy of a major female architectural patron.

Online Lecture: ‘A Plea for women practising architecture’. Ethel and Bessie Charles, First Women Members of the RIBA’, by Henrietta McBurney

Henrietta McBurney will consider their work against the background of late Victorian & Edwardian architecture and social history.

Online Lecture: Octavia Hill, John Ruskin, and Victorian Society, by William Whyte

William Whyte looks at her approach to social work as it was particularly shaped by her understanding of art and architecture.

Winter Online Lecture Series 2025: Victorian and Edwardian Women in Architecture – 7 talks for 6

The Winter Lecture Series 2025 explores Victorian and Edwardian's women's connections with architecture.

Online Lecture: Victorian and Edwardian Women in Architecture, by Lynne Walker

Lynne Walker introduces a series of lectures that will extend our knowledge of women in architecture and the Victorian period.