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April Forum: Artists of the North West: The Lake District and Liverpool 

30th April @ 6:15 pm 7:45 pm

Location: Leicester Adult Education College, Room E1

A photograph of a hill and lake in the Lake District

About the April Forum

Presented by Dr Ellie Pridgeon

This paper will examine art collections, paintings and photographs held at Lakeland Arts, the National Trust, and Liverpool Record Office which document landscape and ways of life in nineteenth and twentieth-century Lakeland and Liverpool. Artists include painters Allan Tankard and Edward Lear, and photographers Edward Chambré Hardman and Joseph Hardman.

About the Presenter

Ellie Pridgeon is an art historian and professional archivist. She teaches art history at Oxford and Cambridge Universities and has taught for many years at the Attenborough Arts Centre. She is currently working as an archivist for Liverpool City Archives. She is a Director of Leicester Vaughan College. You can find out about Ellie’s publications here.

Event Details

This is an in-person Forum. There will be tea and cake before the Forum from 6.15 pm. The talk will start at 6.30pm and finish by 7.45pm. Venue: Leicester Adult Education College.

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April Forum: Artists of the North West: The Lake District and Liverpool