{"id":5712,"date":"2016-07-03T13:21:10","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T12:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbc.org.uk\/events\/?p=5712"},"modified":"2016-07-01T12:28:46","modified_gmt":"2016-07-01T11:28:46","slug":"the-age-of-luxury-the-georgian-country-house-c-1700-1820","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?p=5712","title":{"rendered":"The Age of Luxury: the Georgian Country House c 1700-1820"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>15 October 2016<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Lewes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Between 1700 and 1820 old houses were transformed and new ones built, some on a spectacular scale by owners who would now be regarded as multi-millionaires. The influence of the Grand Tour on country house owners was considerable, not least as many of them travelled abroad themselves, seeing European fashions at first hand. This <a href=\"https:\/\/sussexpast.co.uk\/event\/luxury\">Saturday conference<\/a> chaired by <strong>Maurice Howard<\/strong> address such aspects of the Georgian country house. Speakers include <strong>Sally Jeffrey<\/strong> on the influences on early Georgian garden design, <strong>Geoffrey Tyack<\/strong> on architecture and planning, <strong>Susan Bracke<\/strong>n on interiors and <strong>Jonathan Yarker<\/strong> of Lowell Libson on the Grand Tour. Other topics include servants, guidebooks and how such spending was paid for.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>The Age of Luxury<\/em> <\/span>is part of a series of day conferences organised by Sue Berry for the Sussex Archaeological Society at Lewes. New ideas from Fellows are welcomed (and she is seeking an expert on the impact of the Reformation on the English Parish Church).<br \/>\n<strong>Please contact<\/strong> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #3366ff;\">pat.sueberry@btopenworld.com<\/span>. Speakers are paid a fee and expenses and can bring a friend free. The watercolour by J. Lambert of Lewes (1780, detail) shows Newick Place near Lewes, the home of Lady Vernon (Sussex Archaeological Society).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>15 October 2016 Lewes Between 1700 and 1820 old houses were transformed and new ones built, some on a spectacular scale by owners who would now be regarded as multi-millionaires. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/?p=5712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Age of Luxury: the Georgian Country House c 1700-1820<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-ihbc-area-of-competence-evaluation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5713,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5712\/revisions\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/events2600.live-website.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}