Lectures
The Society for Court Studies runs an annual seminar programme which presents and discusses new work in the field. Normally, seminars are held at New York University, 6 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RA. Currently, seminars are being held online via Zoom. Seminar dates and times are listed below, as well as whether the event is held at NYU or on Zoom.
Seminars are open and free to all, however all online events require registration via Eventbrite. Once registered through Eventbrite, seminar attendees will receive a Zoom invitation on the day. For online events, both members and non-members are required to register.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/the-society-for-court-studies-25394877443
Upcoming Seminars
| Monday, 24 March 2025 18:00 GMT – Online via Zoom | Phillipa Woodcock (University of the Highlands and Islands) – “Fire and Water on the Seine: the Venetian Ambassador’s Fireworks Party of January 1649” Registration |
| Monday, 28 April 2025 18:00 GMT – Online via Zoom | Patric Dickinson (Former Clarenceux King of Arms) – “Heralds as Courtiers” Registration |
Past seminars
2025
17 February 2025 – online
Sarah Bendall (Australian Catholic University) – “The Queens’ Dressing Room: Caring for the Queens’ Body and Clothing at the Stuart Courts”
27 January 2025 – online
Katherine Butler Schofield (Kings College London) – “Musical culture under Mughal patronage: the place of pleasure c. 1593–1707”
2024
29 January 2024 – online
Philip Snow (Independent Scholar) – “Creating an Equilibrium: The Russian Diplomatic Breakthrough with Qing China, 1654 – 1732”
12 February 2024 – online
Amanda Westcott (Oxford) – “Queen Charlotte’s Household: the Consort’s Family of Aristocratic Courtiers”
15 April 2024 – online
Elisabeth Natour (University of Mainz) – “Contentious Sound? Music and Power in the reign of Charles I”
18 September 2024 – In-person
Simon Thurley – “Queens and Papists at St James’s Palace 1603 to 1688” – Venue: Queen’s Chapel, St James’s Palaces
23 September 2024 – online
Ünver Rüstem (John Hopkins University) – “The Emperor’s New Clothes: Ottoman Dress Reforms and the Sultan’s Image”
21 October 2024 – POSTPONED
Anthony Musson (Historic Royal Palaces) – “Henry VIII on Tour: Keeping the Show on the Road”
18 November 2024 – online
Charlotte Bolland (National Portrait Gallery) – “Beginnings: Displaying the Tudors at the National Portrait Gallery”
9 December 2024 – online
John Condren (University of Nottingham) – “The ambasciata d’obbedienza as a Courtly Ritual: Farnese Diplomacy with the Holy See, 1662 – 1694”
2023
30 January 2023 – online
Alastair Bellany (Rutgers) – “Restoring Stonehenge to the Danes: Walter Charleton, Charles II and the Politics of Ritual Inauguration”
20 February 2023 – online
Oliver Creighton (Exeter) – “Warhorse Project – Warhorse: The Archaeology of a Medieval Revolution?”
13 March 2023 – online
Catriona Wilson (Warwick) – “The Critical Age of Victoria: the Public Image of the Queen’s Menopause and Midlife, 1861-1875”
24 April 2023 – online
Lubaaba Al-Azami (King’s College London) – “English Travellers and Indian Queens at the Mughal Court”
18 September 2023 – online
Lucy Whitaker (Independent Art Historian and Curator) – “Charles II, the Restoration and the 1666 Inventory”
16 October 2023 – online
Ella Brook Muir (Roehampton) – “Clothing Queens in Sixteenth-Century England and France”
13 November 2023 – online
Dean Irwin (Independent Scholar) – “‘The ‘Personal Jews’ of the Aristocracy and Royal Family in Thirteenth Century England”
4 December 2023 – online
Sara Ayres – “The Travels of Prince George of Denmark in England, 1669: Privacy as Diplomatic Strategy”
2022
24 January 2022 – online
Julie Farguson (Oxford), “Visualising Protestant Monarchy: Ceremony, Art and Politics after the Glorious Revolution, 1689-1714”
21 February 2022 – online
Priya Atwal (Oxford), “Royal blood and kinship ties in the age of empire: the making of Queen Victoria’s ‘imperial family’”
14 March 2022 – online
Rory MacLellan (Historic Royal Palaces), “The Good Lancastrian? Remembering Henry V in Yorkist England”
25 April 2022 – online
Catriona Wilson (Warwick) – “The Critical Age of Victoria: the public image of the queen’s menopause and midlife, 1861-1875”
19 September 2022 – online
Lucy Whitaker (Independent Art Historian and Curator) – “Charles II, the Restoration and the 1666 Inventory”
10 October 2022 – online
Philip Mansel (IHR/Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles) – “French Royal Funerals, between Contempt and Commemoration: from Louis XIV to Louis XVIII”
14 November 2022 – Venue = Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research, London
Jørgen Hein (Royal Danish Collections) – “The Nuptial Crown of Princess Louisa of Denmark-Norway – an Anglo-Danish Coronet from 1743?”
5 December 2022 – online
Cathleen Sarti (Oxford) – “Palaces and Industry. The Danish Queens’ Lands in the Early Modern Period”
2021
18 January 2021 – online
Oleg Benesch, (University of York), “Britain and Japan in the Global Medievalist Moment: From the Tower of London to Nagoya Castle”
15 February 2021 – online
Munro Price (Bradford University), “Versailles and the French Revolution: The Role of Court Politics”
15 March 2021 – online
Ellie Woodacre (University of Winchester), “The one or the many? Examining the Similarities and Differences in Queenship in Monogamous and Polygamous Court Settings”
12 April 2021 – online
Nicholas Dixon (Independent scholar), “Religious Belief and Practice at the Courts of George IV and William IV”
20 September 2021 – online
Glenn Richardson, (St Mary’s University), “The Field of Cloth of Gold and the Public History of the Court”
11 October 2021 – online
Amy Lim (St Hilda’s College, Oxford), “Court influence on the art patronage of Charles (1662-1748) and Elizabeth (1667-1722) Seymour, Sixth Duke and Duchess of Somerset”
8 November 2021 – online
Adam Storring (The Gottingen Institute for Advanced Study), “Frederick the Great of Prussia, Voltaire and French Military Monarchy”
6 December 2021 – online
Seif El Rashidi (IHR), “Tented Courts: The Long Tradition of Egypt’ by Seif El Rashidi”
2020
13 January 2020
Helen Trompeteler (Royal Collection Trust) – “Prince Albert’s Role and influence as a patron of photography”
17 February 2020
Aidan Jones (King’s College, London) – “Diplomacy of a dynastic union: the princely marriage of Prince Alfred, Queen Victoria’s second son and Tsar Alexander II’s only surviving daughter”
9 March 2020
Hugh Kennedy (SOAS, London) – “From Caliphs to Sultans in the courts of the Islamic Middle east, 800-1100”
14 September 2020 – online
Abby Armstrong, (Heidelberg University) – “The ring account of Eleanor of Provence” – online Zoom Meeting
19 October 2020 – online
Charles Farris, (Historic Royal Palaces) – “The Administration of Cloth and Clothing in the Great Wardrobe of Edward I”
16 November 2020 – online
Paul Dryburgh, (The National Archives) – “A northern powerhouse: archbishops of York and the administration of fourteenth-century England”
7 December 2020 – online
John Davis, (Historic Royal Palaces) – “Letting the public in: the opening of London’s Historic Royal Palaces in the Victorian period”
2019
21 January 2019
Mikołaj Getka-Kenig (Jagiellonian University) – “Monarchical Representation in the Russian-dominated Kingdom of Poland (1815-1915)”
11 February 2019
Philip Woods (New York University) – “Leaving the Viceroy’s House? Representations of Lord Mountbatten as last Viceroy and first Governor-General of India”
11 March 2019
Emily Burns (National Gallery) – “Collecting royal goods in London during the Commonwealth”
15 April 2019
Liesbeth Geevers (Lund University) – “Emanuele Filiberto of Savoy-Oneglia/Filiberto de Austria: nephews and cousins as members of the wider Spanish-Habsburg dynasty”
23 September 2019
Tom Stammers (Durham University) – “Philippe, comte de Paris and the Orléans in Exile: Politics, Empire and Collecting after 1848”
14 October 2019
Oliver Walton (Royal Collection Trust) – “Where was Prince Albert’s home? The challenges of identity and belonging for a transnational prince”
2 December 2019
Heidi Mehrkens (University of Aberdeen) – “Royal heirs as patrons of the arts and sciences in 19th-century European monarchies”
2018
29 January 2018
Katarzyna Kuras (Jagiellonian University, Cracow) – “Conflicts or cooperation? The world of courtiers of the queen Maria Leszczyńska (1725-1768)”
19 February 2018
James Legard (University of Edinburgh) – “‘Princely Glory’: The 1st Duke of Marlborough, Court Culture, and the Construction of Blenheim Palace”
12 March 2018
Valerie Schutte (Independent scholar) – “Princess Elizabeth Tudor: Book Dedications and the New Year’s Gift Exchange”
14 March 2018
“The Restoration Court”; a study day organised by the Society for Court Studies and the Royal Collection Trust
16 April 2018
David Parrott (New College, Oxford) – “Anne of Austria, Mazarin and the French Court”
4 June 2018
Joint event with the Institute of Historical Research Tudor and Stuart seminar – Venue: Institute of Historical Research
Samantha Harper (Winchester University) – “The Household of Henry VII in the Last Year of his Reign: Evidence from the Chamber Books”
17 September 2018
Alden Gregory (Historic Royal Palaces) – “The Tudor Court under Canvas: Royal Tents and Timber Lodgings, 1509-1603”
15 October 2018
Mandy Richardson (University of Chichester) – “Hunting, Hounds and Hospitality: Gendered Aspects of the Late Medieval and Early Modern Royal Hunt”
12 November 2018
Peter Barber (King’s College London) – “George III as a Map Collector”
3 December 2018
Helen Watanabe O’Kelly (University of Oxford) – “Catholic Ruler, Protestant People. The Impact of the Reformation on Court and Civic Festivals in Early Modern Europe”
2017
30 January 2017
Tom Tölle (Princeton University) – “Royal Frailty and the Problem of Perception: Alexander Stanhope at the Court of Charles II of Spain”
20 February 2017
Sarah Grant (V&A) – “Paying Court: the Politics and Patronage of Marie-Antoinette’s Favourite, the Princesse de Lamballe (1749-1792)”
20 March 2017
Robert Bucholz (Loyola University Chicago) – “Venality at Court: Some Thoughts on the Sale of Household Office 1660-1800”
22 May 2017
Natalia Nowakowska (University of Oxford) – “What Happens When Dynasty Ends? The Jagiellonians, Poland-Lithuania and a Late Sixteenth-Century Crisis”
18 September 2017
Milinda Banerjee (Presidency University, Kolkata (India)) – “Peasant Sovereignty, Royal Authority, and Left Politics: Locating Colonial Tripura’s Court Ceremonies in South Asian and Global History”
16 October 2017
Polly Putnam (Historic Royal Palaces) – “The Consumption and Significance of Chocolate in the Stuart and Early Georgian Court”
13 November 2017
Olivia Fryman (Royal Collection Trust) – “The furnishing of Whitehall Palace, 1660-1688”
4 December 2017
Fabian Persson (Linnaeus University) – “The Courtly Chamaeleon? Change or Perseverance of the Swedish Court from 1750 to 1930”
2016
8 February 2016
Arianne Chernock (Boston University) – “The Right to Reign Versus the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement in 19th-Century Britain”
14 March 2016
Nicola Clark (Royal Holloway, University of London & University of Chichester – “Not the Boleyn Girls: The Howard Women as Courtiers, c. 1485–1553”
18 April 2016
Samantha Howard (Historic Royal Palaces) – “‘The matchless Graces’ of her mind: The Cultural Patronage of Augusta, Queen in Waiting, Regent and Princess Dowager”
16 May 2016
Joint event with the IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar
Jeroen Duindam (University of Leiden) – “A Global View of the Royal Court: Redistribution, Power, and the Question of Agency”
12 September 2016
Stephen Brogan (Royal Holloway, University of London) – “‘The king touches you, God heals you’. Comparing the Royal Touch Ceremonies of 17th-century England and France”
17 October 2016
Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University) – “Raising the spare: Four Monsieurs at the French court, 1574–1795”
14 November 2016
Jacqueline Riding (Birkbeck, University of London) – “‘His little hour of royalty’: Prince Charles Edward Stuart at the Palace of Holyroodhouse”
5 December 2016
Sara Smart (University of Exeter) – “Hohenzollern Brides: Confession, Identity and the Rise of the Brandenburg-Prussia in the Seventeenth Century”
2015
9 February 2015
Alison Goudie (National Gallery, London) – “Smuggled Silhouettes and the In/Visibility of Royal Exile during the Napoleonic Wars”
16 March 2015
Catherine Fletcher (The University of Sheffield) – “Creating a Court in 1530s Florence: the Material World of Duke Alessandro de’ Medici”
11 May 2015
Professor Richard Cust (The University of Birmingham) – “Charles I and the Aristocracy, 1625-1640”
1 June 2015
Joint with the IHR Tudor and Stuart seminar
Simon Thurley (English Heritage) – “The Early Stuart Court at Home”
21 September 2015
Julie Farguson (University of Oxford) – “The Stuart-Orange Political Partnership: Anglo-Dutch Kingship and War, 1690-94”
23 November 2015
Virginia Rounding (Independent scholar) – “The Court of the Last Tsar, 1896 – 1917”
14 December 2015
Mark Bryant (University of Chichester) – “Romancing the Throne: Mme de Maintenon’s Journey from Secret Royal Governess to the Sun King’s Clandestine Consort, 1669-84”
2014
17 February 2014
Charlotte Bolland (National Portrait Gallery) – “‘SAT SUPER EST’: A Portrait of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, and Court Culture during the Reign of Henry VIII”
10 March 2014
Yvonne Ward (La Trobe University) – “Censoring a Queen: How Arthur Benson and Lord Esher Fashioned an Image of Victoria for their Own and Future Generations”
14 April 2014
Heather Jones (London School of Economics) – “The Great War and its Legacy on George V and Edward VIII”
12 May 2014
Manolo Guerci (University of Kent) – “The Great Houses of the Strand: 1550-1650, An Overview”
9 July 2014
(Special lecture)
Andrew Thompson (Cambridge University) – “Fathers and Sons: the Politics of Intergenerational Conflict and the Hanoverian monarchy”
22 September 2014
Julian Swann (Birkbeck College, University of London) – “Of Secrets and Supper Parties: Disgrace and Exile at the Court of Louis XV”
1 October 2014
(Special lecture)
Christopher Clark (Cambridge University) – “Dynasty and Decision Making in 1914”
20 October 2014
David Gelber – “Royal Rio: The Brazilian Capital under the Braganzas, 1808-1889”
17 November 2014
Sara Wolfson (Christ Church Canterbury) – “Bedchamber Women and Henrietta Maria’s Foreign Policy Agenda, 1627-1638”
8 December 2014
Claire Gapper – “Court or Country? The Emergence of Decorative Plasterwork in Sixteenth-Century England”
2013
16 January 2013
(Special lecture)
David Cannadine (Princeton University) – “When Did the British Monarchy become a Constitutional Monarchy?”
11 February 2013
Janet Dickinson (University of Reading) – “The Politics of Chivalry and Courtly Love at the Later Elizabethan Court”
11 March 2013
Andrew Barclay (History of Parliament Trust) – “Recovering Charles I’s Art Collection”
8 April 2013
Anna Whitelock (Royal Holloway, University of London) – “In Bed with the Queen: Elizabeth I and the Politics of the Bedchamber”
17 April 2013
(Special lecture)
Jane Ridley (University of Buckingham) – “Alexandra, Consort of Edward VII: The Forgotten Queen?”
20 May 2013
Glenn Richardson (St Mary’s University College) – “The Field of Cloth of Gold: Peace Conference or War Game?”
17 June 2013
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska (The University of Illinois at Chicago) – “‘Preparing Youth for Citizenship’ from George V’s Silver Jubilee Appeal in 1935 to the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme in the 1950s”
21 October 2013
David Taylor (The National Trust) – “‘Triumphant in her Effigy’: Catherine of Braganza and the Politics of Portraiture”
11 November 2013
Anna Keay (The Landmark Trust) – “‘Our dearest son’ Charles II and the Duke of Monmouth”
9 December 2013
Ruth Brimscombe (National Portrait Gallery) – “Art, India and the Prince of Wales in 1875-6”
2012
16 January 2012
Leonhard Horowski (German Historical Institute, London) – “Your Excellency or Your Grace: The Prussian Monarchy’s Quandaries of Birth, Rank and Office, 1660-1806”
13 February 2012
Wolf Burchard (The Royal Collection, London) – “The Grande Galerie at the Louvre: Shifting Values in Seventeenth-Century French Royal Patronage: Henri IV to Louis XIV”
19 March 2012
Anthony Spawforth (Newcastle University) – “Ancient Courts, with Special Reference to Alexander the Great”
23 April 2012
Brett Dolman (Historic Royal Palaces, London) – “The Wild, the Beautiful and the Damned: Art, Beauty and Debauchery at the Late Stuart Court”
14 May 2012
Miles Taylor (Institute of Historical Research, London) – “Queen Victoria’s Indian Jubilees”
28 May 2012
Ceri Law (Cambridge University) – “The University of Cambridge and the Elizabethan Court, 1558-1585”
28 May 2012
Sophie Carney (Roehampton University and National Maritime Museum) – “Legitimising Queenship, Visualising Love: Henrietta Maria and the Decoration of the Queen’s House at Greenwich”
15 October 2012
Alden Gregory (National Trust) – “The Archiepiscopal Household: Experiencing the Archbishop of Canterbury in the later Middle Ages”
12 November 2012
Clarissa Campbell Orr (Anglia Ruskin University) – “Under the Sign of Minerva: Mary Delany’s Court Education and Early Augustan Aristocratic Feminism”
10 December 2012
William Godsey (Austrian Academy of Sciences) – “Coronations and Royal Inaugurations in the Austrian Monarchy 1790-1848”
2011
11 February 2011
Edward Town (National Portrait Gallery) & Olivia Fryman (Historic Royal Palaces) – “Fabricating a Courtier House: Lionel Cranfield at Chelsea, 1619-1624”
14 March 2011
Curt Noel (NYU, London) – “The Gods in the Palace: Religious Imagery in the Palacio Real, Madrid”
4 April 2011
J. R. Christianson (Luther College, Iowa) – “Science and Religion at the Court of Denmark, 1534–1699”
9 May 2011
Marila Keblusek (Leiden University) – “Three ‘First Ladies’ in the Hague: Rivalries and Alliances at the Courts of Mary of Orange, Elizabeth of Bohemia and Amalia van Solms”
20 June 2011
Jonathan Spangler (Manchester Metropolitan University) – “Another Charles Restored in 1660: The Re-Establishment of the Court of Charles IV of Lorraine”
3 October 2011
Barrie Cook (British Museum) – “‘The King offereth but only Gold’: Coins and Royal Ceremony in Tudor and Early Stuart England”
14 November 2011
Gordon Higgott (St Paul’s Cathedral) – “Edward Pearce Senior (fl.1630–d.1658): Decorative Artist, Landscape Painter and Collaborator of Inigo Jones”
12 December 2011
Erin Griffey (University of Auckland) – “Behind Closed Doors: Storing Household Goods at the Stuart Court”
2010
1 February 2010
Claire Gapper – “The Decorative Plasterwork of Apethorpe, Northamptonshire: A City Plasterer Working in a Courtier’s House, 1622-1624”
8 March 2010
Laura Moretti (University of Oxford) – “Spaces for Musical Performance in the Este and Gonzaga Courts (c. 1440-1540)”
19 April 2010
William O’Reilly (University of Cambridge) – “The Emperor Who Could Not Be King: the Emperor Charles VI and Spain (1700-1740)”
10 May 2010
Alasdair Hawkyard – “The Tudor Royal Household and Parliament, 1509-1558”
14 June 2010
Malcolm Smuts (University of Massachusetts Boston) – “The Queen Elizabeth/Anjou Match and the Politics of Dynastic Libel”
4 October 2010
Hannah Greig (University of York) – “Faction and Fashion: The Politics of Court Dress in Eighteenth-Century England”
8 November 2010
Simon Dixon (University College London) – “Catherine the Great and the Imperial Russian Court”
6 December 2010
David Boswell – “The Architectural Setting of the Grand Masters of Malta, 1530-1798”
2009
26 January 2009
Marc Morris – “Edward I and the Knights of the Round Table”
16 March 2009
Aonghus MacKechnie (Historic Scotland) – “Architecture and Absent, Intermittent and Satellite Courts: The Case of Seventeenth-Century Scotland”
27 April 2009
Jane Ridley (University of Buckingham) – “The Biographical Consequences of Edward VII: Lord Esher’s Bonfire”
22 June 2009
Patrick Little (History of Parliament) – “Fashion at the Court of Oliver Cromwell”
5 October 2009
Philip Mansel – “The French Court 1770-1870: Grandeur and Catastrophe”
7 December 2009
Elizabeth Goldring (University of Warwick) – “The Politics of Translation: Arthur Golding’s Account of the Duke of Anjou’s Entry into Antwerp, 1582”
2008
21 January 2008
Emily Cole (University of Sussex) – “The English Court and the English Country House 1603-1625”
14 April 2008
Alexander Courtney (University of Cambridge) – “‘By merie company…free from importunitie’: The Bedchamber and Jacobean Kingship Revisited”
12 May 2008
Manolo Guerci (University of Cambridge) – “An aristocratic palace of monarchical intent: The Interiors of Northumberland House in the Strand, 1605-1874”
9 June 2008
Claire Norton (St Mary’s University College) – “Uniting Against the ‘Lords of Lewdness’: Forging Alliances and Constructing Shared Identities in the Ottoman Nagykanizsa fethnames [victory missives] Sent to Queen Elizabeth I”
6 October 2008
Edward Corp (University of Toulouse) – “The Stuart Court in Rome”
10 November 2008
Alexander Samson (UCL) – “Sovereignty in the Queen’s Closet: The Court and Household of Mary Tudor and Philip of Habsburg”
8 December 2008
Maria Hayward (University of Southampton) – “Making Magnificence: Dress at the Court of Henry VIII”
2007
22 January 2007
Patrick Little (History of Parliament) – “Music at the Court of King Oliver”
19 February 2007
Ian Archer (Keble College, Oxford) – “City and Court Connected: the Material Dimension of Royal Court Ceremonies, 1480-1625”
19 March 2007
Irena Murray (Royal Institute of British Architects) – “Our Slav Acropolis: Architecture and Governance at the Prague Castle, 1918-1939”
14 May 2007
Glenn Richardson – “Postcards from the Edge: Francis I and Englands’s break with Rome”
11 June 2007
Mary Hollingsworth – “Electing the Court: Ceremony and Discomfort in Sixteenth-Century Papal Conclaves”
22 October 2007
David Reed – “Breakfast in the Afternoon – or One Hundred Years of Royal Garden Parties”
19 November 2007
Nicole Reinhardt (University of Lyon) – “The Importance of Being Catholic: Religion and Court Life in Early Modern France and Spain”
17 December 2007
Jeremy Ashbee (English Heritage) – “The Tower of London as Royal Residence 1066-1399”
2006
23 January 2006
Glenn Richardson (University of Surrey) – “Gift Exchange at Renaissance Courts: England and France, 1509-1603”
20 February 2006
Curt Noel – “Baroque, Rococo, Neo-Classical: The Bourbon Court and Cultural Change in Eighteenth-Century Spain”
20 March 2006
Jerry Brotton (Queen Mary, University of London) – “‘Who bids most?’ The sale of Charles I’s Art Collection”
15 May 2006
Graham Gendall Norton – “A Caribbean Court: Henri Christophe, King of Haiti”
23 October 2006
Craig Clunas (SOAS) – “‘As a Hedge and a Fence…’: Kingly Courts of Ming China (1368-1644)”
20 November 2006
Nigel Saul (Royal Holloway College) – “Politics and Luxury: The Court of King Richard II”
18 December 2006
Dries Raeymaekers (University of Antwerp) – “A Princely Court in Brussels: the Court and Household of the Archdukes Albert and Isabella (1598-1621)”
2005
24 January 2005
Toby Osborne (Durham University) – “What’s in a name? Ceremonial Rivalry between the Grand Duchy of Tuscany and the Duchy of Savoy during the Sixteenth Century”
28 February 2005
Maurice Howard (University of Sussex) – “William, Lord Sandys of the Vyne: A Tudor Courtier’s Goods”
25 April 2005
Anna Keay (English Heritage) – “Charles II and the Chapel Royal”
23 May 2005
Nigel Aston (University of Leicester) – “Commentary from a Courtier: An Insider’s Perspective on the Last Years of George II, 1756-1760”
13 June 2005
Caroline Finkel (Istanbul) – “Holy Men at the Ottoman Court: A Dynasty in Search of Legitimisation”
17 October 2005
Robin Eagles (History of Parliament Trust) – “No more to be said? Reactions to the Death of Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales”
21 November 2005
Sophie Pickford (University of Cambridge) – “Nobility and Possession: Objects in the French Renaissance Château”
2004
19 January 2004
Jane Ridley (Buckingham University) – “Deconstructing Tum Tum: becoming Edward VII”
15 March 2004
Iain Fenlon – “Novellara: music and culture at a ‘minor’ Italian Renaissance court”
17 May 2004
John Pollard (Cambridge University) – “A Court in exile: the Vatican 1870-1929”
14 June 2004
Roderick Barman (University of British Columbia) – “The Portuguese Court in Two Worlds: The corte e casa at Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro 1640-1834”
18 October 2004
Robert Lacey – “How enlightened was George III? The King, the British Museum and the Enlightenment”
2003
20 October 2003
Patric Dickinson – “Heralds as Courtiers”
15 December 2003
William Purdue (Open University) – “Monarchs of the world 1850-1914: the invention of tradition?”