66: Lofty Ambitions

This edition of our membership magazine was published in March 2021 and features the following articles:

4 The architecture of art education

Geoffrey Tyack on the rise of the Victorian art school.

8 The curious after-lives of the Victorian studio-house

Louise Campbell on what happened to the studio-house in the twentieth century.

12 People’s palaces of art: a question of purpose

Jonathan Conlin on the Christian Socialist vision of the Victorian art museum.

14 Places where the call for freedom was heard

Hannah-Rose Murray on the locations of the African-American anti-slavery lecture tours in Victorian Britain.

16 House notes

Moses Jenkins on how to protect empty buildings.

18 Case notes

Tom Taylor considers the damaging proposals that threaten Worcester’s Lowesmoor port area.

19 Casework

An update on the Society’s recent casework.

23 Case study

The Garden Museum extension by Biba Dow.

24 Book reviews

The Museum Building of Trinity College, Dublin, Arts & Crafts Churches, Cardiff Castle and the Marquesses of Bute, The Buildings of England: Nottinghamshire

29 News

Dame Rachel Waterhouse and Richard Tinker remembered, the county of Essex, a terrace in Stamford and the jargon of Punch magazine.

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