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London in Lockdown: 1940s and 1950s

Online Event - 13/05/2021

John East, the Society’s ‘unofficial photographer’ has been on his bike again during the recent lockdowns and revisited buildings in London from the period 1945-1960.

Festival of Britain 70th Anniversary: Battersea Pleasure Gardens

Online Event - 06/05/2021

To mark the 70th Anniversary of the Festival of Britain, Geoffrey Hollis and Elain Harwood will talk about the 1951 Battersea Pleasure Gardens – Art and Elegance in Abundance.

Abram Games and his 1951 Festival of Britain symbol

Online Event - 29/04/2021

Naomi Games will talk about her father's design for the Festival of Britain symbol, as well as the Festival postage stamp and the other work for the ‘Tonic to the Nation’.

World Art Deco Day

Online Event - 28/04/2021

A celebration of Art Deco in Britain for World Art Deco Day, when Elain Harwood will talk about cinemas, seaside buildings, factories and other buildings in this most fantastic of styles, based on her book Art Deco Britain, published by Batsford in 2019.

Ralph Beyer’s Coventry Architectural Inscriptions

Online Event - 22/04/2021

The work of the lettercarver Ralph Beyer (1921-2008), will be discussed by John Neilson with particular emphasis on his architectural lettering, especially at Basil Spence’s Coventry Cathedral, the largest commission of his career.

Brutal North

Online Event - 15/04/2021

Brutal North: Post-War Modernist Architecture in the North of England,(2020). The photographer Simon Phipps is joined in this discussion by Catherine Croft, Dr Christina Malathouni and Matthew Steele

Wartime Paintings in London

Online Event - 08/04/2021

Suzanne Bardgett, Head of Research at the Imperial War Museum will talk about her book Wartime London in Paintings on the Museum’s collection of paintings of London commissioned during the Second World War.

Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Swansea

Online Event - 01/04/2021

Lecture 7: Catrin James will celebrate the post war legacy of Swansea’s town centre looking at its modernist buildings of libraries, schools, shops, markets, arcades, banks and health clinics.

Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Milton Keynes

Online Event - 25/03/2021

Lecture 6: Guy Ortolano will examine the fate of modern architecture in Milton Keynes, the last, largest, and most ambitious of Britain’s new towns.

Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Dublin

Online Event - 18/03/2021

Lecture 5: Erika Hanna will give an overview of the changes to Dublin’s built environment during the twentieth century, from the reconstruction after the 1916 Rising to the apartment and office boom of the Celtic Tiger.

Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Nottingham

Online Event - 11/03/2021

Lecture 4: Elain Harwood will discuss how nineteenth-century Nottingham became a twentieth century city with some eye-catching buildings.

Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Liverpool

Online Event - 04/03/2021

Lecture 3: Joseph Sharples will give a general survey of the twentieth century architecture and development of Liverpool, one of the great commercial cities of the country

Introduction to post-war Welsh architecture

Online Event - 01/03/2021

The inaugural lecture of the C20 Welsh Group. Jonathan Vining will reveal the little appreciated rich heritage of post-war architecture in Wales.

Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Oxford

Online Event - 25/02/2021

Lecture 2: William Whyte will explain why Oxford was transformed by the twentieth century. From the 1950s onwards Oxford became a noted patron of modern architecture.

Spring Lecture Series Cities of the British Isles: Edinburgh

Online Event - 18/02/2021

Lecture 1: Edinburgh’s medieval and early modern heritage is well-known, Alistair Fair will show that the city is rich in twentieth century architecture, from buildings by key designers, to notable suburban estates and inner-city redevelopment

Spring Lecture Series: Cities of the British Isles

Online Event - 18/02/2021

Complete Series

The Festival of Britain 1951, a tonic to the Nation

Online Event - 11/02/2021

This is intended as an introduction to the Festival of Britain, in its 70th Anniversary year

Members’ Travels Slide Evening and Harry Page Photography Award

Online Event - 04/02/2021

C20 Annual Members's slide evening hosted by Carolyn Parmeter

Inter-War London in Lockdown 2 - The 1930s

Online Event - 28/01/2021

A talk presented by John East

Inter-War London in Lockdown 1 - The 1920s

Online Event - 21/01/2021

A talk presented by John East

Italian War Memorials Revisited

Online Event - 14/01/2021

Hannah Malone revisits a trip led by Gavin Stamp in 2012

Visual Acoustics: Julius Shulman’s iconic photography of Californian Modernism

Online Event - 07/01/2021

Join Will Paice, Valeria Carullo, Prof Neil Jackson and Catherine Croft in conversation to discuss the documentary film Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman and the recently published book of the same title.

Cressingham Gardens: An English Garden Estate

Lecture - 17/12/2020

A lecture about Will Jennings' film

Casework Tuesdays - Derby Assembly Rooms Rescheduled from 1st December

Online Event - 15/12/2020

A talk with architect Robert Evans about the efforts to save the Brutalist Derby Assembly Rooms

Retro LA Part 2

Online Event - 10/12/2020

Tour leader Neil Jackson and the Society’s ‘unofficial photographer’ John East, will reprise the C20 Society’s 2004 visit to Palm Springs, San Diego, Desert Hot Springs, San Juan Capistrano. This is the second part of the talk