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”.

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”.

21 January 2019
Mikołaj Getka-Kenig (Jagiellonian University) π “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”.

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”.

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”.

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”.

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”.

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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”

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)”

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”

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”

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?”