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The 8th New Insights into 16th- and 17th-Century British Architecture
Organised by Dr Claire Gapper and Dr Paula Henderson
The Society of Antiquaries, Burlington House, Piccadilly
Saturday 20 January 2018
 
Architecture and maps 
Rose Mitchell: Nonsuch in the margin: buildings on early modern maps
               Rose Mitchell and Andrew Janes, Maps: their untold stories - map treasures from The National Archives (Bloomsbury, 2014),
               especially 30-31 and 84-85.

               ‘Saxton, Treswell and Hawsted: the maps and cartographers’ in Treswell’s Survey of Purbeck 1585-6, Mark Forrest, ed. (Dorset Record
               Society, 2017), 25-43.

Paul Holden: 'Estate Mapping at its Finest’: the Lanhydrock Atlas 1696
               Paul Holden, Peter Herring and Oliver Padel. The Lanhydrock Land Atlas: A Facsimile Edition (Cornwall Editions, 2010)
               "A Masterpiece of the Estate Surveyor’s work”: the Lanhydrock Atlas 1694-6’, International Map Collectors Journal, March 2014, 30-8.

Grottoes and gardens
Dr Adam White: The Banqueting House and Grotto at Skipton Castle
Professor Tim Wilks: Another leak from the Cistern House: what Inigo Jones, Salomon de Caus and Costantino de’ Servi were attempting at
​               Richmond Palace 
 
Textiles and architecture
Dr Alden Gregory:  Portable Palaces: The Architecture of the Royal Tents and Timber Lodgings in the Sixteenth Century
               ‘Henry VIII’s Timber Lodgings: Ephemeral Architecture at War in the Early Sixteenth Century’, Antiquaries Journal  (2020),
​               forthcoming.

Dr Rosamund Garrett: Reconstructing Canterbury Cathedral’s Choir Tapestry

Something old, something new…
Dr Jenny Saunt: New evidence for the ‘Abbott Book’: discoveries of design and production methods for seventeenth-century decorative
​               plasterwork. 
Pete Smith: The English Country House and the Civil War
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