There is a registration fee, which includes lunch and refreshments, and admission to the Foundling Museum between 10am and 5pm. The fee is payable in advance (£22), or on the day (£25).
Programme:
Lucía Catalán-Báguena (RHUL) — What did recreational violinists learn to play?: Theatre tunes in London violin tutors, 1695–1750
Olive Baldwin and Thelma Wilson (Chelmsford) — Knotting and knitting with Purcell and Haydn
Philip Winterbottom (Saffron Walden) — John Walsh junior (1709–1766): Fortune and legacies
David Shuker (West Somerton) — Cecilia on the gallery: The women organists of Georgian England
Victoria Hodgkinson (London) — Reclaiming operatic foremothers: Cultivating embodied feminist aesthetics in contemporary Handelian practice cultures
Rachel Cowgill (York) — An Oboist and a Gentleman?: Music, status, and social mobility in the life of John Erskine of York (1765/6–1847)
Michael Talbot (Liverpool) — A pious plagiarist: Joseph Eyre (ca 1711–1789) and his Eight Sonatas (ca 1765)
Music, Heritage, Place: Unlocking the musical collections of England’s County Record Offices
Stephen Rose (RHUL) — Discoveries from England’s local archives: Women’s music education in the 1740s
Caro Lesemann-Elliott (RHUL) — Music and industrialisation in late 18th-century Derbyshire: The Knowles collection
Yiyun Liu (Sheffield) — Shaping Nature: Handel’s Acis and Galatea and ancient simplicity in 1710s Britain
Penelope Cave (Chichester) — Dr Burney:‘…born to improve and enlighten our days’
To find out how to get here, view our visitor information page.
To find out more about access at the Foundling Museum, including how to book a wheelchair, visit our Accessibility page here.