Overview of research at the Centre

The Warwick-Waddesdon Programme The Warwick-Waddesdon programme promotes the study of the archives and collections at Waddesdon Manor and seeks to develop connections between the historians at Warwick and elsewhere, and museum curators. Working with the Waddesdon collections, it will seek to develop projects on nineteenth century attitudes to the collection of eighteenth century objects, on the Waddesdon archives about the eighteenth century interior, and on Waddesdon's special collections. Waddesdon Manor is an historic house open to the public, belonging to the National Trust, jointly administered by a Rothschild charitable trust. Its collection has unique strengths in the arts of eighteenth-century France. The first initiative jointly developed by the Eighteenth Century Centre and Waddesdon Manor is a Leverhulme-funded... [read full story]