The American Friends of Attingham supports the work of The Attingham Trust, a British educational charitable trust, that organizes specialized residential courses to study British country houses, their collections and settings, and the history and contents of British royal palaces. The American Friends of Attingham is a 501(c)(3) educational organization that assists the Trust by recruiting and processing applications from candidates living in the United States, and raising scholarship funds for qualifying applicants.

WE MOVED DOWNSTAIRS! PLEASE NOTE OUR NEW SUITE NUMBER 901.

UPCOMING EVENTS – USA

  • Annual Meeting | Thursday, October 12, 2023, 6:30pm ET on Zoom | For more information and to review the slate of nominees, click here. Register here
  • Private tour at Untermyer Park and Gardens | Sunday, October 15, October, 2023, 10:30am ET | For more information, please click here. Register here.
  • Annual Fall Benefit Lecture “Dining Culture in the English Country House, 1600-1914” presented by Ivan Day, British culinary historian, collector and chef | Thursday, November 2, 2023, 6-8pm ET at The Explorers Club | For more information, click here. Purchase tickets here.  
  • SAVE THE DATE! Mid-Winter Reunion | Friday, January 19, 2024 at The Winter Show | More details coming soon. 
  • SAVE THE DATE! Study Trip to Pasadena, California | February 8-11, 2024 | More details coming soon. 

UPCOMING EVENTS – UK

  • Call for Abstracts (400 words), due 1 December 2023, for the conference “Outside the Demesne Walls: Estate Villages and Towns” held May 12-14, 2024, the 22nd Annual Historic Houses International Conference hosted by the Study of Historic Irish Houses and Estates, History Department, Maynooth University and Castletown House. Email submissions to Attingham supporter and Professor Terence Dooley. More information available here
  • Check back soon for more virtual fall events. 

 

2023 Courses

The Attingham Summer School

July 1-16, 2023

Royal Collection Studies

September 3-12, 2023

The Attingham Study Programme

September 18-26, 2023

London House Course

October 3-9, 2023