We are delighted to invite you to our Stakeholder Engagement Event in the Council Chamber at Windsor Guildhall. As a community partner or advocate of the Windsor & Royal Borough Museum, we really value your feedback on our museum service. We are currently developing our forward plan for the next two years and would like to consult you on what our priorities should be going forward.

Which topics do you want to see explored in our exhibitions? What type of talks and activities would be of interest? How can we ensure our online resources most benefit you? These are just a few of the questions we want to know the answers to.

We hope the evening will be a pleasant opportunity for community networking, over a glass of wine and light buffet. The event will begin at 6pm, but feel free to arrive from 5:30pm for welcome drinks and to explore the museum. We will then head upstairs to the Council Chamber where attendees will be organised into smaller groups and staff will facilitate informal feedback discussions. The evening will end with a fun historical talk from a leading academic.

Dr Sally Holloway (Oxford Brookes University) will speak on 'The Progress of Love: Making and Breaking Courtships in Georgian England'.

Dr Sally Holloway is a historian of gender, emotions, and visual and material culture in Britain and the world over the long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. She is a Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in History & History of Art at Oxford Brookes University, and previously worked as a researcher at Historic Royal Palaces, and taught at Queen Mary University of London and Richmond, The American International University in London. Her book The Game of Love in Georgian England: Courtship, Emotions and Material Culture was published with Oxford University Press in 2019, and has recently been released in paperback.

Dr Holloway is also a regular guest on comedian Jonathan Van Ness's Getting Curious Podcast:

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Stakeholder Engagement Evening