This Special Interest Day introduces you to the three of the most intriguing members of the family.
Since the middle of the sixteenth century the Cavendish family have moved in and out of the pages of history, somtimes making its mark with scandal, sometimes with politics, sometimes with learning and always with style. We meet Bess of Hardwick, the four times married founder of the dynasty: the first Duke of Devonshire, labelled 'the most dissolute man in London'; and the Bachelor Duke, amiable custodian of the dukedom in the early nineteenth century.
How to book this event:
email: taunton@theartssociety.org
THE ARTS SOCIETY ACCREDITED LECTURER
Dr Gillian White
Dr Gillian White specialises in the history and visual arts of late medieval and sixteenth-century England. After beginning her career at the Warwickshire Museum, she then worked for the National Trust as Curator/Collections Manager at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, about which she wrote her PhD at Warwick University. Since that she taught part-time at Leicester University in the Centre for the Study of the Country House and continues to teach History of Art in the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University and elsewhere.
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