- 09March 9, 2025No events
- 10March 10, 2025No events
- 11March 11, 2025
W W Winter Lecture - Photography and the Country House
Speaker: Jonathan Wallis
Tuesday 11 March at 7.30pm Zoom only
How did the owners of the country house engage with photography in the 19th and early 20th centuries? Mainly using the example of the Pennymans from Ormesby Hall in Teesside, and with some examples from W W Winter Heritage Trust collection, Jonathan will explore how photographers were employed, photographs used in the house and photography became a hobby for many including the Pennymans.
Jonathan Wallis has worked in museums and heritage for over 30 years. He began his museum career as a conservator at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, later moving to a number of other museums before joining Derby Museums in 2001. After 17 years he left to work as a regional curator for the National Trust based in Yorkshire and the Northeast. Jonathan’s interests in collections are wide ranging – from British Bronze Age metalwork to Joseph Wright of Derby. His latest research explores the photographic history of a country house, Ormesby Hall, on the outskirts of Middlesbrough and Scarborough’s Victorian photographic studios. He has been the Chair of the W W Winter Heritage Trust for the past seven years.
Booking is by donation via Eventbrite – proceeds will be shared between the W W Winter Heritage Trust and the Derbyshire Archaeological Society.
- 12March 12, 2025
- 13March 13, 2025No events
- 14March 14, 2025
Investigating hillforts in Derbyshire and across the northern Midlands
Darley Lane, Derby, DE1 3AXSpeaker: Graham Guilbert
The aim will be to explore something of what we know of hillforts in this region, covering considerable variety in their form and density of distribution, and extending west from Derbyshire into the Welsh Marches. Only a few instances have been investigated sufficiently thoroughly and extensively to allow any confidence in interpretation, and those few can lead us into consideration of certain themes and issues having great influence upon general understanding of hillforts. Graeme’s first engagement with hillforts came in the late 60s, through excavating at Cadbury Castle in Somerset, thereafter focusing upon forts in Wales and its Marches, and more recently extending to those in Derbyshire. He is never more content than when trying to get to grips with the earthworks of a fort located on some remote hilltop.
- 15March 15, 2025No events