YCHP News
The Yorkshire Country House Partnership (YCHP) looks to hold annual seminars to discuss work-in-progress and issues relevant to the aims of the Partnership. These are hosted either at one of the participating Partnership houses or at the University of York. 2009 The Third Policies, Issues, and Research Seminar is scheduled to be hosted at The University of York on Friday 13 February and Saturday 14 February. The proposed content is as follows: Further details to be posted in due course. Friday 13 February Session 1: Research - Yorkshire Projects 1. The Anglo-Irish Connection: the Case of Yorkshire 2. Sculpture and Aristocratic Holdings in Yorkshire 3. Music in the Yorkshire Country House 4. Aristocratic Whig Politics: Lord Morpeth and his World Session 2: Policies – Heritage and Sustainability
1. The Heritage Protection Bill
2. Heritage Science
3. Sustainability and the Country House: the Irish Case
Session 3: Issues – Ownership and Heritage
1. Institutional Owners: Heritage Responsibility and the Country House
2. The Local Authority as Country House Guardian
3. The National Trusts and the Country House
4. The Private Owner
Saturday 14 February
Session 1: Case Studies
Session 2: Collaborations and Partnerships
1. The Centre for the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates
2. The Attingham Trust
3. European Partners
4. The Historic Houses Association
Session 3: Research Workshop
Three consecutive one-hour sessions with 15-minute presentations including questions
2008
Applications are invited for a PhD studentship on 'War and the Country House: Yorkshire, 1899-1954' sponsored by the Yorkshire Country House Partnership and funded jointly by English Heritage and the University of York. The studentship will be held in the Department of History at the University of York and will be supervised by Dr Mark Roodhouse.
This project is to examine the impact of the Boer War and the two World Wars on the country house and its occupants, and the contribution they made to the war effort, through a study of Brodsworth Hall and the nine other houses in the Yorkshire Country House Partnership. The project is guided by two research questions. First, what effect did conflict have on country houses and their occupants? Areas for research include family and social life, estate management and household management. Secondly, how did they contribute to the war effort? Relevant themes include leadership on the Home Front and in active service, housing and production. The successful applicant will be expected to pursue one or both of these questions in their doctoral research.
Applicants should hold a good Bachelor's degree in a relevant subject and hold a Master's degree in a relevant field. It is also open to those with relevant museums, galleries and archives experience within the conservation and heritage sector. The studentship is available from October 2008 onwards and is only available full-time. The stipend will be the equivalent of an AHRC graduate studentship.
Application forms http://www.york.ac.uk/admin/gso/gsp/apply/ plus two letters of reference should be marked 'War and the Country House' and sent to The Graduate Administrator, Department of History, University of York, Heslington, York YO10 5DD to arrive no later than Tuesday 30th September 2008.
Informal inquiries may be made to Dr Mark Roodhouse, mr19@york.ac.uk.
2007
20 September: A Work & Play Seminar hosted at Temple Newsam.
In association with the Work and Play project, a series of seminars entitled 'Empire and Landscape in the Long 18th Century' are being hosted by the University of York.
The dates are as follows:
3 March: Trans-Imperial Estate Management in Britain and the West Indies During the 18th Century
31 March: Painted and Graphic Representations of the English and Indian Landscape, 1780-1820
19 May: Photography and Victorian India
30 June: Round Table discussion
For more information visit: University of York Landscape Seminars
The Second Policies, Issues, and Research Seminar was hosted at The University of York on Friday 2 and Saturday 3 February 2007. The programme was as follows:
Friday 2 February
Session I: Policies and Issues: National and International Perspectives
Chair: David Cannadine (Institute of Historical Research)
Session 2: Audiences and Public Understanding
Chair: Helen Weinstein (University of York)
Session 3: Research Themes: Future
Chair: Miles Taylor (University of York)
Saturday 3 February
Session 1: Two Case Studies
Chair: Christopher Ridgway (Castle Howard & Co-Chair, YCHP)
Session 2: Research Projects: Current
Chair: Terry Suthers (Harewood House)
Session 3: Research Workshop
Chair: Allen Warren (University of York)
An opportunity for those engaged in other research projects relating to the country house to deliver short presentations followed by discussion.
March 2007: Launch of The Estates Project.
2006
New for 2006, the Year of the Portrait.
17-18 November ‘Year of the Portrait’ conference to be hosted by the NPG, The University of York and Beningbrough Hall.
The first phase of the Libraries Project is completed.
2005
In May 2005 an essay by Dr Christopher Ridgway and Dr Allen Warren, YCHP co-chairs, entitled Collaborative Opportunities for the Study of the Country House: The Yorkshire Country House Partnership, was published in Historical Research, vol. 78, no. 200 (May 2005).
2004
Dr Christopher Ridgway and Dr Allen Warren, YCHP co-chairs, delivered a paper entitled Collaborative Opportunities for the Study of the Country House: The Yorkshire Country House Partnership, at ‘The great houses from the Roman villa to the stately home: perspectives and prospects’ conference hosted by the Institute of Historical Research, in London, in January 2004, and subsequently at the University of Aberdeen, in March 2004 and the National University of Ireland, in Dublin, in September 2004.
In May 2004 the YCHP launched the first collaborative venture: Maids & Mistresses (link to M&M page).
In November 2004, a seminar was hosted by the University of York and chaired by Prof. David Cannadine. Representatives from English Heritage, National Trust, the Yorkshire Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, Heritage Lottery Fund, National Archives, the Attingham Trust, the University of York and country houses throughout the region were in attendance.