T-Time Talk: The Three Founders and the Fight for Green Space
Join historian and curator Helen Antrobus for a journey through the lives of three great environmental activists: Octavia Hill, Robert Hunter and Hardwicke Rawnsley.
- Booking essential
- Admission applies
From the Surrey Hills to the fells of the Lake District, explore the landscapes that instilled in them the fight, and how the struggle to protect green space for all led to the foundation of the National Trust.
Helen Antrobus is Assistant National Curator of Social History at the National Trust, specialising in gender and political histories. From the industrial north’s fight for the right to access the mountains and shores of the Lakes and the Peak District, to children’s dresses worn in the election campaigns of the early 1900s, Helen’s research is rooted in exploring the lived experiences of all those connected to the Trust’s places. Her first book, First in the Fight: Twenty Women Who Made Manchester was published in 2019, and she is the co-author 100 Things to Wear: Fashion from the collections of the National Trust. In 2022, she co-curated Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature, a major exhibition between the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Trust.
Times
The basics
- Booking number
Call 03442491895
- Accessibility
There is disabled parking available at the front of the house and ramp access.
- Meeting point
Terrace Room, Leith Hill Place
- What to bring and wear
N/A
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