A Queer Inheritance

Libreria

From Lawrence of Arabia and Vita Sackville-West to the Dancing Marquess, Michael Hall reframes Britain's historic homes as places of secrecy

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From Lawrence of Arabia at Clouds Hill and Vita Sackville-West at Sissinghurst to the ‘Dancing Marquess’ at Plas Newydd and lesser-known queer communities and scandals, Hall reframes these houses and landscapes as sites of quiet resistance, coded lives, and evolving identities. The evening situates these personal histories within the Trust’s own shifting relationship to queerness, from the shadow of Oscar Wilde to today’s more inclusive reckoning.

ABOUT MICHAEL HALL: Michael Hall has published several books on architecture, country houses and collecting, including Waddesdon Manor: The Biography of a Rothschild House (3rd ed., 2012), George Frederick Bodley and the Later Gothic Revival in Britain and America (2014) and Art, Passion and Power: The Story of the Royal Collection (2017). A former Architectural Editor of Country Life and Editor of Apollo, he was Editor of The Burlington Magazine from 2017 to 2024.

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