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Call for Papers | Imagining Britain enfilade18thc.com/2026/03/03/cal…

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Have you seen today’s BBC Wales News story about Port Talbot’s “Pompeii”? Archaeologists have uncovered the largest Roman villa ever found in Wales, just beneath the surface of Margam Country Park. Read more: zurl.co/z0p81

Must get a copy of this. ‘This critical biography places Pope's life and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688. It gives close readings of Pope's major poems, including the less commonly discussed translations of Homer. Frequent resort is made to Pope's letters, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope's literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century. This critical biography is a posthumous publication by a Pope scholar of international reputation. It gathers the scholarship and insights of the author's earlier books and essays on Pope into a final work of new research and a lifetime's reflection on its subject, aimed at the informed general reader as well as students and professional scholars. The book places Pope's life, friendships, and poetry in the context of the political state of Britain following the Revolution of 1688, the year of the poet's birth. It is sympathetic to the revisionist history which argues that Jacobitism was a serious and persistent phenomenon, and brings out more fully than previously the extent of Pope's contact with Catholic and Jacobite circles in England and abroad, giving this biography a distinctive approach and emphasis. Pope's friendships, with both Whigs and Tories, with men and women, are brought into relation to the poetry. Professor Erskine-Hill gives sensitive close readings of all Pope's major poems, but also of the less commonly explored, notably the translations of Homer and especially of the Iliad. Frequent resort is made to Pope's letters, among the finest of the age, including new items. A final chapter discusses Pope's literary reputation in the later eighteenth-century subsequent to his death’.

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JOB OPENING: Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship in Prints and Drawings (FT, 2 years) - National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Deadline: 3rd November 2025 Annual salary of $65,000, plus research and travel expenses. Apply here: nga.gov/employment-opp…

The Royal Collection in Three Dimensions share.google/LLJZbqPRx4bDiG…

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Vanbrugh, from Stage to Stone – Ax:son Johnson Centre for the Study of Classical Architecture – University of Cambridge share.google/qfUxfMt5aOlSzL…

Do you work or volunteer in a historic park or garden? Or study garden or landscape history? We’d love your views on a new Early Careers Network and what it could offer you 👇 Please share and complete our survey by Mon 25th Aug 🔗 forms.gle/VZS42uGKVFyvbZ… 5️⃣ mins to complete

Call for Papers | The Future of the Antique enfilade18thc.com/2025/04/05/cal…

Some interesting gardens caught on film here youtu.be/EDyBTaJWibE?si… #gardenhistory

CFP: 'Trade and Its Representations: Commercial Activity in Art and Architecture in the 17th and 18th Centuries', Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Paris, 12–13 June 2025 Proposals due by 31 March 2025 enfilade18thc.com/2025/02/12/cal…

💥 OUR online TALK coming NEXT Francis Haskell and Nicholas Penny, Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture: 1500-1900: An Art History Classic Forty Years On by Dr Adriano Aymonino 👉 Tuesday 11th Feb 6.30pm FREE for PSSA Members pssauk.org/event/francis-…

Opportunity alert! We're recruiting for a Collaborative Doctoral Award titled 'At Home with Angelica Kauffman: The Material and Print Culture of an 18th-Century Artist'. @UniOfYork, funded by @WRoCAH. Apply by 5 March. wrocah.ac.uk/cda-projects-o… 📸National Trust Images/James Dobson

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📯Roman Altar Restoration Project🏛 When Charles Hamilton returned from one of his Grand Tours, he brought with him a genuine Roman Altar. Sometime during the twentieth century, the altar was moved up to the garden at Painshill Park House. Here the altar stayed until a few years ago when the home owner, Mr Trew, offered it back to Painshill. The altar is now at the City & Guilds of London Art School where it is being researched and assessed with a view to restore it. Recently some of the Painshill team visited the School to receive an update on the initial findings. They learned the details of potential restoration methods and possible treatments which could be used to restore the altar. We are very grateful to Gaby at the City & Guilds of London Art School for undertaking this important project for Painshill and we look forward to sharing further updates as the project continues. #Roman #Painshill #Heritage #History #Architecture