Onsite Talk: The Women Who Saved the English Countryside

Join author and professor Matthew Kelly at the V&A for an exploration of his new history of English landscape preservation over the last 150 years, told through the lives of four remarkable women.

Talk

  • Thursday, 19 May 2022 at V&A South Kensington

  • V&A South Kensington

  • Past event

+44 (0)20 7942 2000

  • V&A South Kensington

    Cromwell Road
    London, SW7 2RL

  • The Lydia and Manfred Gorvy Lecture Theatre

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  • For Members

  • Tickets cost £12.00 - £15.00

Past Event

In ‘The Women Who Saved the English Countryside’, Northumbria University professor Matthew Kelly traces the history of landscape preservation through the lives of four remarkable women: Beatrix Potter, Octavia Hill, Pauline Dower, and Sylvia Sayer. Join him for a discussion of the challenges they faced as they protected the English landscape at a crucial period.
The event will be followed by a book signing by the author.

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