The next Village Society Zoom talk will be by Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin on The Edwardians and their houses: The New Life of Old England on Tuesday 25^th May 2021, 7.30pm – 8.30pm

Tim will discuss the beauty and the varied style of Edwardian domestic architecture, which was very often designed and built to an unprecedented level of sophistication. It was also astonishingly innovative, and provided new building types for weekends, sport and gardening, as well as fascinating insights into attitudes to historic architecture, health and science. He demonstrates how the leading circle of the Liberal Party, who built incessantly and at every scale, influenced the pattern of building across England. He will provide an insight into the building literature of the period, from Country Life to the mass-production picture books for builders, tracing the links between these houses and suburbs on the one hand, and the literature and other creative forms of the period of the other.

The talks are free to all members and membership of H&I Village Society is currently free. So please contact them to register as a new member. Zoom links for the talks will be sent to members directly.

Dr Timothy Brittain-Catlin is an architect and architectural historian who is presently teaching in the Department of Architecture at The University of Cambridge. After more than a decade working in Britain and abroad on both historic buildings and masterplanning, he returned to Cambridge in 2000 to research the buildings of A.W.N. Pugin and the domestic architecture of early Victorian England.

His first book, The English Parsonage in the Early Nineteenth Century, was published in 2008 and in 2020 he published his latest book The Edwardians and their Houses. This is the first radical appraisal of the subject for over 40 years. He is a member of Historic England’s national Advisory Committee and is published widely on houses and churches, including critiques in the Architectural Review, Architecture Today and many other magazines and journals.