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Keeping up with the Joneses in the 18th century
Posted on 20/11/09
University of Leicester
The last in this years highly popular series of Study Days held by the University of Leicesters Centre for the Study of the Country House will be on Tuesday 24th November, and will take a look at The Fashionables: Londons Beau Monde in the Eighteenth Century.
Dr Hannah Greig, broadcaster, historical adviser and lecturer at the University of York on the 18th century, promises a lively look at what it took to break into the London fashionable world some 300 years ago.
It was not, it appears, a straightforward process. She writes: To be fashionable in the 1700s demanded more than a savvy knowledge of modish trends. It was an accolade that could not be purchased or inherited. Instead, contemporary commentators claimed it was determined by a baffling je ne sais quoi attributed to members of the beau monde. To be cool in the eighteenth century was clearly as hard then as it is now!
During the course of what promises to be a fascinating day, Dr Greig will throw light on the requirements of the new elite culture that emerged from the Revolution of 1688, looking at the interpretation of that elite status, its sociability, exclusivity and its pursuit of pleasure.
The Study Day takes place at Lamport Hall, which has the rare distinction of having been in the hands of a single family the Ishams from 1560-1976 and remains intact with its contents complete.
The result is that those attending study days there have the feeling of being guests of the household, said Dr Phillip Lindley, Director of the Centre for the Study of the Country House.
The Study Day on Tuesday 24th November runs from 10am to 3.15pm. Dr Greig will give three lectures, interspersed with tea, coffee and lunch.
For more information and to find out about other study days by the Centre for the Study of the Country House see the website: http://www.le.ac.uk/ha/countryhouse/news.html or contact Carol Charles on tel 0116 252 2866, e-mail cec7@le.ac.uk, or fill in the online booking form.
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