Travelling Around the Eighteenth Century: the Baskerville Carriages

Baskerville Society

This event looks at the research behind the rediscovery of Baskerville's carriages and  an exclusive close-up opportunity to examine them.

Wollaton Hall, Gardens and Deer Park

For over a century two very rare, historically important, and beautiful carriages - a Post Phaeton and Landau - have been associated with an individual who, it seems, was not their original owner. Through recent observation, analysis, research and consultation, the carriages now have a clear association with John Baskerville (1707-75), japanner, printer, and type founder of Birmingham.&nbsp;Organised by the Baskerville Society in conjunction with the British Carriage Foundation and Nottingham Industrial Museum, this one-day conference will present current research around the carriages and provide the opportunity for an exclusive, close-up view of the two horse-drawn carriages in the Nottingham Industrial Museum.PROGRAMME0930-1100: Self-guided viewing of the carriages1030-1100: CONFERENCE REGISTRATION1100-1130: Amy Bracey ‘Baskerville’s carriages: their rediscovery and context within eighteenth-century horse-drawn travel’1130-1200: John Townley ‘The travels and resting places of Baskerville’s carriages’1200-1210: Q+A1210-1220: REFRESHMENTS1220-1250: Ann Inscker ‘The Baskerville carriages: a journey across Nottingham City Museum and beyond’1250-1320: Yvonne Jones ‘The decoration of the Baskerville carriages: japanned, or not?’1320-1330: Q&amp;A1330-1400: LUNCH1400-1430: Dr Malcolm Dick ‘Wolverley and Birmingham’1430-1500: Dr Kate Croft ‘Baskerville’s Women’1500-1510: Q&amp;A1510-1600: Guided viewing of the carriages 1600: CONFERENCE ENDS

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