The Victorian Society

Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops - 7 talks for 6 Our autumn lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics.

This talk is part of our Autumn Online Lecture Series 'Hot Off The Press: Victorians in the Bookshops'. Individually the lectures are just £6, but buy our Special Offer and Get 7 Talks for the Price of 6:
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Our lecturer Mark Bertram’s monograph on Ricardo (his great-grandfather) was published by Lund Humphries in March.

He was an engaging personality, as well as a forward-looking thinker. gifted lecturer and essayist, his architectural work, most famously No. 8 Addison Road, London (for Ernest Debenham in 1905) was often highly individualistic in its innovative use of colour and glazed materials.

Halsey Ricardo is a well-known Arts and Crafts figure thanks to his business partnership with William De Morgan, for whom he designed tiles and vases, and his role as head of architecture at the Central School of Arts & Crafts. Read more + book bit.ly/46QxjNv 🧵

The South Yorkshire Group of the Society is seeking new volunteer committee members, as well as someone to lead on their Social Media to support their campaigns/promote our walks & talks. Read more: bit.ly/4gQxIUG

Image: Old Town Hall, Sheffield
📷: Dave Pickersgill CC 2.0

Lady Charlotte Schreiber: Extraordinary Art Collector Discover the life of Lady Charlotte Schreiber in this online talk by Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

Book to hear Caroline's online lecture: bit.ly/3Kw15ja

Lady Charlotte Schreiber, Extraordinary Art Collector This book emphasises Lady Charlotte Schreiber (1812-1895) — also known as Lady Charlotte Guest, née Bertie — as one of the most significant women in the history of collecting. An extraordinary collect...

Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth’s long-awaited study of this great Victorian collector has just been published by Lund Humphries. www.lundhumphries.com/collections/...

Lady Charlotte Shreiber was a woman who subverted gendered norms and challenged Victorian conventions, Schreiber made major contributions to ceramic history and cultural education, and played an influential role in transnational artistic networks.

@carolinemccaff.bsky.social gives the first in our autumn online lecture series on 21st October. 🧵

London’s Victoria and Albert Museum with partners is hosting a conference ‘Great Expectations’ about the future of the UK’s historic churches, chapels and meeting houses on Tuesday 21 October 2025. Read more and book: bit.ly/4h3oWCT

#heritage #History #churches #chapels #meetinghouses

Join us at St Mary Abbots on Kensington Church St for an in-person talk. Rev Evan McWilliams' explores furnishings such as altarpieces, font covers, stained glass windows, and memorials that were provided to ornament existing Victorian churches from the 1890s onwards.

Book here: bit.ly/4mhPJMU

Our autumn online lecture series celebrates the remarkable recent flourishing of publications on Victorian architecture and related topics. All the speakers are the authors of new books, either just published or forthcoming.

Book here: bit.ly/4pOE2jD

#booktalks

Candy - just realised it is WII we don’t even do WWI. You need our friends at the Twentieth Century Society @c20society.bsky.social

Did you have an expert making your listings application? I am sorry we can't contact you as we are pretty busy but you can email our Birmingham & West Midlands Conservation Adviser and explain the situation. I think it is some while before you can reapply for listing now tim@victoriansociety.org.uk

So many buildings deserve to find sympathetic reuse. And as you say it is about regeneration and sustainability too.

What date and where please? If it is pre the start of the First World War it is our period, if after the date WWI started it is the @c20society.bsky.social We are specifically not talking about HE turning down requests to list, but those HE make being turned down by the Minister.

The amenity societies are concerned currently. Hop over to the @c20society.bsky.social to see two fire stations turned down for listing. Why don't you FOI the Government department to ask within a date range how many requests to list by HE have been turned down.

Image: Medlock Mill/Hotspur Press in Manchester after the fire in June 2025. Photo: Alan Davies @pitheadbaths Flickr - PitHeadGear and on Twitter @pitheadbaths

Image: Medlock Mill/Hotspur Press in Manchester after the fire in June 2025. Photo: Alan Davies @pitheadbaths Flickr - PitHeadGear and on Twitter @pitheadbaths

The Society is deeply concerned by a growing pattern of the Secretary of State refusing to add important historic buildings to the National Heritage List for England, even when formally recommended to do so by Historic England.
Read more: bit.ly/4pQKFSI
📷 Hotspur Press by Alan Davies

#heritage

Taken a look at the Historic England list and couldn’t see this station.

Grants and listings can apply to heritage railways as much as our current active rail network. The DCMS listings in this case highlighted heritage but all are open to the public.

Victorian and Edwardian buildings are underlisted so lots were lost before we came about. Mills are the cultural, architectural and social history of many places. They are our heritage just as much as a Grade I country house.

Also celebrating an anniversary this year - its 40th birthday - is the Railway Heritage Trust who award vital grants to buildings and structures of railway heritage like these which are listed or in conservation areas.
railwayheritagetrust.co.uk

Photos:

(L) Sheringham Station Photo: Bs0რ1
(M) Swanage Photo: David Martin
(R) Weybourne Station Photo: David Dixon

To mark 200 years of the modern railway DCMS and Historic England have listed at Grade II a number of heritage railway stations and sites. These include those in Weybourne Station & Sheringham Station in Norfolk on the Poppy Line, and Swanage Engine Shed and Turntable. 🧵
bit.ly/3W3jTZp

Endangered building - Liverpool vicarage and hall on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024 - The Victorian Society Liverpool vicarage and hall on Victorian Society’s Top Ten Endangered Buildings list 2024 is on our list of endangered buildings. The Victorian Society - Campaigning for Victorian and Edwardian Built ...

St Agnes, Grade I, J L Pearson - Toxteth. We placed its Vicarage and Hall by Norman Shaw on our Top Ten Endangered Buildings list in 2024 - both have now been sold we believe. www.victoriansociety.org.uk/endangered-b... Thanks Barnabas.

We are relieved that plans to demolish the 19thC Walk Mills in Keighley + replace it with 12 modern industrial buildings have been withdrawn. The Victorian Society, Historic Buildings & Places, West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service & others objected. bit.ly/4mt6Qva
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Visit St Andrews in Kingsbury with us.

St Andrew’s church (Grade II*; 1844-47, by Samuel Whitfield Daukes) is a landmark in Kingsbury, its Perpendicular Gothic spire rising out of a sea of mock-Tudor interwar housing.

Read more and book tickets: bit.ly/4nIjBTE

#architecturalhistory

Glad one of the chapels are still in use. Thanks for sharing.