Upcoming Events
Please note the SHC Events programme for 2021 will be posted soon.
In the meantime, we wish everyone a lovely and safe end of the year!
Violated National Heritage: Theft, Trafficking and Restitution
New Date Announcement: 24 March 2021
Victoria and Albert Museum
Lydia & Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre Cromwell Road London SW7 2RL
Attendees who paid for the 2020 event will be refunded, and ticket registration will open in early 2021. If you registered for the 2020 date, you will need to register again for the 2021 date.
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The Society for the History of Collecting is grateful to the Worshipful Company of Makers of Playing Cards and the Gilbert Trust for the Arts for their support in making this event possible.
THE IMAGE ABOVE: DETAIL FOR A COLOURED LITHOGRAPH AFTER L. BOILLY, 1823, WELLCOME COLLECTION. CC BY.
Tricks of the Trade: Duveen Brothers and the Market for the Decorative Arts, 1880–1940
Postponed until further notice
The Getty Center
Please note this event and all other talks at the Getty have been postponed, or cancelled, until further notice.
Visit to Stourhead
Postponed until further notice
This event will be confirmed once the house and curators give a specific date.
We have organised a Society tour to Stourhead in Wiltshire to view the house and tour the gardens. In the morning we will tour the house with Stourhead expert Dudley Dodd, author of past Stourhead guidebooks as well as a book on the Peretti Cabinet that was bought by Henry Hoare II in 1740 whilst on Grand Tour in Rome. After lunch we will tour the 18th-century English Landscape garden by Society member John Harrison.
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Final details of the event and tickets will be available through Eventbrite.
If you have any questions, please contact: info@societyhistorycollecting.org