Thomas Rickman’s Liverpool - DAY 1
12:45pm - 6:30pm /
Friday 19th May 2017
Type: Conference /
Category: University
- Alex Buchanan
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THIS IS A TWO DAY EVENT.
2017 marks the bicentenary of the printing (in Liverpool) of Thomas Rickman’s ground-breaking book 'An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture'. This event is being celebrated by exhibitions at Liverpool’s Central Library and the University of Liverpool’s Archives and Special Collections, and with walks and talks. To coincide with these events, a two-day conference will be held in association with the University of Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre.
The aim of the conference is to critically evaluate Rickman’s work and its influence in the context of the town where he lived and worked, where he discovered architecture and underwent the transformation from insurance clerk to professional architect. The conference is centred upon Rickman but seeks to encourage a deeper understanding of Liverpool, and its social and architectural environment during the period of his residence (1808-c.1821). Contemporary Liverpool was the ideal setting for a young man interested in buildings and eager for self-improvement: he arrived soon after the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807) which transformed Liverpool’s international trade and was an early member of the revived Literary and Philosophical Society (1812) where he honed his skills as a lecturer on architectural topics. He became involved with local building projects, notably the constructionally-innovative churches of local ironmaster John Cragg and built up a network of fellow enthusiasts and potential clients.
Day 1: Friday 19 May 2017 12.45: Registration
13.00-14.00: Keynote – Megan Aldrich
Session 1: Merchants and Shops in Liverpool c.1800
14.00-14.20: Sheryllynne Haggerty – ‘Liverpool’s Trade and Traders in the Atlantic World’
14.20-14.40: Jon Stobart – ‘Geographies of shopping and leisure in Georgian Liverpool’
14.40-14.50: Questions
14.50-15.05: Break
Session 2: Liverpool – Space, Place and Culture
15.05-15.25: Katy Layton-Jones – t.b.c.
15.25-15.45: Hugh Hollinghurst – ‘Rickman, St Luke’s Church and the John Fosters, Senior and Junior’
15.45-16.05: David Brazendale/Mark Towsey – ‘ “To the convenience of men of business as well as men of leisure”: Reading, Community and Library Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain’
16.05-16.15: Questions
16.15-16.45: Walk to the Liverpool Athenaeum (directions will be provided)
16.45-17.30: Tea and exhibition at the Athenaeum
17.30-18.30: Keynote 2 – Joseph Sharples – ‘Improvement and embellishment united’: The Architectural Scene in Thomas Rickman’s Liverpool
2017 marks the bicentenary of the printing (in Liverpool) of Thomas Rickman’s ground-breaking book 'An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture'. This event is being celebrated by exhibitions at Liverpool’s Central Library and the University of Liverpool’s Archives and Special Collections, and with walks and talks. To coincide with these events, a two-day conference will be held in association with the University of Liverpool’s Eighteenth-Century Worlds Research Centre.
The aim of the conference is to critically evaluate Rickman’s work and its influence in the context of the town where he lived and worked, where he discovered architecture and underwent the transformation from insurance clerk to professional architect. The conference is centred upon Rickman but seeks to encourage a deeper understanding of Liverpool, and its social and architectural environment during the period of his residence (1808-c.1821). Contemporary Liverpool was the ideal setting for a young man interested in buildings and eager for self-improvement: he arrived soon after the passing of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act (1807) which transformed Liverpool’s international trade and was an early member of the revived Literary and Philosophical Society (1812) where he honed his skills as a lecturer on architectural topics. He became involved with local building projects, notably the constructionally-innovative churches of local ironmaster John Cragg and built up a network of fellow enthusiasts and potential clients.
Day 1: Friday 19 May 2017 12.45: Registration
13.00-14.00: Keynote – Megan Aldrich
Session 1: Merchants and Shops in Liverpool c.1800
14.00-14.20: Sheryllynne Haggerty – ‘Liverpool’s Trade and Traders in the Atlantic World’
14.20-14.40: Jon Stobart – ‘Geographies of shopping and leisure in Georgian Liverpool’
14.40-14.50: Questions
14.50-15.05: Break
Session 2: Liverpool – Space, Place and Culture
15.05-15.25: Katy Layton-Jones – t.b.c.
15.25-15.45: Hugh Hollinghurst – ‘Rickman, St Luke’s Church and the John Fosters, Senior and Junior’
15.45-16.05: David Brazendale/Mark Towsey – ‘ “To the convenience of men of business as well as men of leisure”: Reading, Community and Library Culture in Eighteenth-Century Britain’
16.05-16.15: Questions
16.15-16.45: Walk to the Liverpool Athenaeum (directions will be provided)
16.45-17.30: Tea and exhibition at the Athenaeum
17.30-18.30: Keynote 2 – Joseph Sharples – ‘Improvement and embellishment united’: The Architectural Scene in Thomas Rickman’s Liverpool