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. 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: 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) 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. Friday 2 February
Saturday 3 February
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.