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(Re)constructing the Gilded Age: The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Ballroom, with Laura Jenkins HIG member and The Courtauld Institute of Art Ph.D. Candidate Laura Jenkins will give a talk as part of the SAHGB – IHR seminar titled “(Re)constructing the Gilded Age: The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Ballroom.” This will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU) on Thursday, 21 March 2024, from 18:30 to 19:30. For more information and to register, use the following link: https://www.sahgb.org.uk/whatson/laura-jenkins-re-constructing ABSTRACT Between 1892 and 1894, the ParisRead More →

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Review: Boiseries at Camden Place, January 12-13, 2023 By Lauren Drapala (January 2023) A little over a week ago on January 12-13, 2023, I had the privilege of attending Boiseries: Decoration And Migration From The 18th Century To The Present at Camden Place, Chislehurst, UK. The conference was convened by fellow SAH-HIG member Laura Jenkins, a current PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art, and Dr. Lindsay Macnaughton of University of Buckingham. Presenters and attendees represented a variety of institutions from across the United Kingdom, France and the United States, each considering the migrations of eighteenth-century boiseries from their original places of inception throughRead More →