71: Treasuring the Past

This edition of our membership magazine was published in November 2022 and features the following articles:

4 The list must go on

Matthew Saunders on the recent listing review, and Joe Holyoak on a Vic Soc pilot study.

8 Managing change

Victoria Thomson of Historic England explains proposed changes to planning legislation.

11 Young and Hansom

John Daffurn on new discoveries about the early life of Joseph Hansom.

12 How to read the Victorian church

James Stevens-Curl reflects on revisiting his study of the art and architecture of the Victorian parish church.

14 Houses of art re-open

Jeremy Musson on the reopening of Sambourne and Leighton House.

16 House notes

Moses Jenkins on the issue of condensation when the heating is turned off.

18 Casework

An update on the Society’s recent casework.

23 Case study

Tom Ayers and Grigor Grigorov on Harrods’ façades.

24 Book reviews

Andrew Saint on the Tate Britain’s Walter Sickert catalogue; Edmund Harris on the new monograph on William Barre; Caroline Sones on a new book on equal access; and Michael Hall on Queer Spaces.

28 News

Wales, Liverpool, new books on W.H. Crossland and Ernest Shearman (above) and two farewells.

30 John Archer obituary

A Victorian champion remembered, by Jane Kennedy.

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