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Beer to Champagne: the rise of a sparkling socialite
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-16:00
This autumn sees the return of our award winning 'Beer to Champagne' theme which celebrates Maggie Greville's astonishing rise from illegitimacy to social success.
Wharf to Mill by boat
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:30-16:30
Boat from Dapdune Wharf to St Catherine's, and then walk across the boardwalk uphill to the mill for a tour and a picnic. Return boat trip to Dapdune.
Vegetable Ham - tastes of late summer
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-17:00
Join us at Ham House this September for our annual harvest of late summer produce. Families can pick their own, and everyone can sample the vegetables in our Orangery Café.
Nymans
A garden lovers' home for all seasons, with an extensive yet intimate garden set around a romantic house and ruins.
Family trail: Hooray for decay
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-15:30
Take our decay themed trail through the garden this autumn.
Exhibition: A break in the clouds
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-15:30
In the 30th anniversary year of the Great Storm, this exhibition uses archive material and personal recollections to reflect on the impact of the disaster at Nymans.
Standen House and Garden
Arts and Crafts family home with Morris & Co. interiors, set in a beautiful hillside garden
Bothy
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-17:00
Designer Will Shannon uses Arts & Crafts principles of using local materials and traditional handcrafted skills to make 'Bothy'. Stop for a while as you walk round the garden to discover this small folly like space.
Robert Adam: Total Design/Total Obsession Exhibition
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-17:00
An introductory exhibition about Robert Adam, the great Neo Classical architect and designer
House timed tickets - September
Wed 20 Sep 2017
14:30-14:45
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The house is open from 11:30 Mon-Fri and from 11am on weekends. Obtain a timed ticket on arrival or pre-book the 14.30 or 15.45 time slot. Please book at least 24 hours in advance and exchange your e-ticket for a house ticket on arrival.
Musical Wednesdays
Wed 20 Sep 2017
14:30-15:00
Join a music collection specialist each week to explore a different aspect of the Benton Fletcher Collection of early keyboard instruments.
Petworth
A stately mansion nestled in the South Downs housing the finest art collection in the care of the National Trust.
As you like it! A Shakespearean Family Trail
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-16:30
Collect a scroll and become an apprentice playwright. Name your characters and decide their fate as you explore the Mansion. Will all your characters make it to the end of the play... you decide!
Sutton House and Breaker's Yard
Tudor house surviving in the heart of a thriving East London community
Never Gonna Dance Again: a symposium about vanishing LGBTQ spaces
Wed 20 Sep 2017
09:45-18:00
A one day symposium featuring academics, activists, and members of the LGBTQ community presenting on the theme of LGBTQ venues closing around London. Featuring a key note speech from London's first Night Czar Amy Lamé. A light lunch will be...
My Ightham Mote autumn activity pack
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-16:00
Have fun in the countryside with our PDF downloadable autumn activity pack. Each season we're highlighting some of our favourite things to do in the outdoors, as well as some of the best 50 things to do before you're 11 3/4. So bring your family...
East Surrey Sculpture Society Exhibition
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-16:30
Sculpture exhibition in the grounds of Ightham Mote.
Queen of Ightham Mote exhibition
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-16:30
'Queen of Ightham Mote - An American interlude: Queen Palmer, John Singer Sargent and their Circle'. The exhibition runs from Saturday 4 March - Saturday 23 December 2017.
The Statue Trail
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-17:00
Cliveden has an extensive and important statue collection on display around the estate. This trail is a self-led walk offering you the chance to learn the history behind how these statues have ended up at Cliveden.
Material Girls: 'Goodnight Children Everywhere' textile art exhibition
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-16:00
A new textile art installation will be coming to the Hayloft at Rainham Hall during September 2017. The Material Girls, a local art collective, will be displaying pieces inspired by our 'Remembering the Day Nursery' exhibition.
Readings in the Garden
Wed 20 Sep 2017
14:00-14:15
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Join Larry Yates for readings in the garden and hear some of Virginia's Woolf's most famous words in situ.
Scotney Castle
Country house, romantic garden, 14th century moated castle - all in a beautiful wooded estate
Hop garden tours
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-13:00
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The end of summer means the hop harvest. Hops are still grown,picked and dried in traditional ways on our estate. Walk with us to see the hop gardens, picking shed, drying oast and hoppers huts.Plus sample Scotney Ale brewed from hops grown on...
The Vyne
Experience conservation in action as this former Tudor mansion undergoes a major roof project
Tudor secrets self-guided tour
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-16:00
At the site visited by Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1535, pick up your self-guided tour at Visitor Reception and uncover hidden secrets contained in The Vyne's surviving Tudor features.
Rooftop walkway
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-16:00
See how our major roof project is progressing from our lift-accessible rooftop walkway open daily 10am-4pm last entry 3:30pm.
Children's Tudor animal trail
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-16:00
Deer, horses and falcons are just some of the creatures you may have seen at The Vyne in 1535. See if you can spot the animals that played an important part in Tudor life.
Tag-a-Tile 2017
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-16:00
Be part of history by personalising a tile with a message or drawing to go on our new roof.
Conservation in action
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-15:00
Join the house team and conservation volunteers to see how the Library's collection is handled.
Disraeli the Author
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-17:00
A new exhibition explores his literary career.
50 things to do before you're 11 3/4 at Greys Court
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-16:00
Get out and about at Greys Court by completing some of the 50 things to before you're 11 3/4 activities. It's a great chance for children to play and explore the environment as they tick activities off in their scrapbooks.
Arthur Rackham in Sussex; A 150th birthday celebration. Fri 8 Sept - Sun 29 Oct
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-16:00
A chance to see the work of the illustrator of many of Kipling's books, Arthur Rackham.
Ball Run
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-17:00
Play and explore the parkland as you complete this year's new Ball Run at Basildon Park.
At Home with Art - Treasures of the Ford Collection
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-16:30
A new exhibition of inspiring artworks in the South Pavilion.
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
Historic, poetic, iconic; a refuge dedicated to beauty. Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson fell in love with Sissinghurst Castle and created a world renowned garden.
Speak Its Name! In partnership with the National Portrait Gallery
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-17:30
Speak its Name! - a display in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, London - will present selected portraits from the Gallery's Collection, including photographs and drawings of Sackville-West's lovers Violet Trefusis and Virginia Woolf.
Ashridge Estate
Ancient trees, rolling chalk downlands and lush meadows in an area of outstanding natural beauty
Root and branch: tales of trees at Ashridge
Wed 20 Sep 2017
10:00-17:00
Come along to our new exhibition about some of the special trees at Ashridge
Bodiam Castle
Archetypal 14th century moated castle with ruined interior - a glimpse of medieval splendour
Guided moat walk at Bodiam Castle : 7 April to 27 October 2017, 12.15 & 2.15pm
Wed 20 Sep 2017
12:15-13:00
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Get out and about with one of our guides on these short but informative walks around the castle grounds, where you will discover some of the secrets of Bodiam's past.
2017 Milling Demonstrations
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-15:00
Visit on a milling day and see our team of volunteer millers in action as they harness the power of the river Itchen to turn waterwheels, gears and millstones to produce Winchester City Mill's traditional wholemeal flour.
Playwrights, Pioneers and Provocateurs
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-17:00
This new exhibition explores the work and relationships of Edy Craig and her circle of friends in the LGBTQ community. From groundbreaking plays to intimate friendships, Playwrights, Pioneers and Provocateurs celebrates their important stories.
Forest History Walk
Wed 20 Sep 2017
14:00-15:00
Join one of our knowledgeable walk leaders for an hours walk through Hatfield Forest. Discover its Georgian heart and medieval beginnings. . .
Waddesdon Manor
Magnificent house and grounds in the style of a 16th-century French château.
Creatures & Creations
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:00-17:00
From 7 June to 29 October in the Coach House Gallery at the Stables see nature's patterns transformed into art in this vibrant exhibition.
Wine Cellars Talk
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:30-12:00
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Discover the history of Rothschild wine
Introductory Walk
Wed 20 Sep 2017
11:30-12:15
An introduction to the history of Waddesdon Manor
Riches of the Earth
Wed 20 Sep 2017
12:00-16:00
Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild's 'Renaissance Museum' was full of objects made of precious materials: hardstones, minerals, silver and gold. While the bulk of this collection was bequeathed to the British Museum on his death in 1898, examples of...
Power & Portraiture
Wed 20 Sep 2017
12:00-16:00
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From 7 June to 29 October in the House see this special display of Elizabethan portraits that reveal an exciting attribution.
Step This Way: The Red Drawing Room Opened Up
Wed 20 Sep 2017
12:00-16:00
Come into the Manor as a 19th-century house guest would have done.
Balfour 100
Wed 20 Sep 2017
12:00-16:00
A small display of documents from the Waddesdon Archive relating to the Rothschild family's role in the Balfour Declaration.
Tales from the Archive
Wed 20 Sep 2017
12:00-16:00
Continuing from 2016 this exhibition will explore stories of people connected with Waddesdon through the display of archive material and images.
Glorious Years: French Calendars from Louis XIV to the Revolution
Wed 20 Sep 2017
12:00-16:00
From royal weddings to victorious battles, almanacs glorified the king by illustrating these significant events on large single-sheet printed calendars, which spread into the homes, schools and shops of the French people. The exhibition will...
Discovery Talk
Wed 20 Sep 2017
12:30-13:00
Discover the history of Waddesdon Manor in this 20 minute talk by one of our House Guides.
Meet the Aviary Keeper
Wed 20 Sep 2017
14:00-14:30
Meet our collection of rare and endangered birds.
Water Garden Walk at the Dairy
Wed 20 Sep 2017
14:00-14:45
Discover the beauty of the Water Garden.