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3 FRIDAY
APRIL 2009
Desmond Guinness 634
Simon Jenkins 658
The Conservation of Irish Houses
and Castles
10am / Blue Boar Marquee, Christ Church / £7.50
Desmond Guinness founded the Irish Georgian
Society in 1958 and was responsible for saving much
of Georgian Dublin, and many of Ireland’s greatest
historic houses from destruction. The son of Lord
Moyne and Diana Mitford, Mr Guinness has written
widely on Irish and American architecture – and on
the decorative arts of both countries. Here he talks
about the conservation of Irish houses and castles.
Sponsored by Purcell Miller Tritton
Wales: Churches,
Houses, Castles
10am / Newman Rooms, St Aldates / £7.50
The buildings of Wales embody its history and are
the equal of any in the British Isles. Simon Jenkins,
Chairman of the National Trust, and one of Britain’s
most prominent journalists, has travelled (it seems)
every mile of Wales, to celebrate the best of them.
He conveys his enthusiasm for Welsh buildings in his
latest book Wales: Churches, Houses, Castles – it’s an
enthusiasm that’s so infectious that it cannot fail to
inspire his readers.
Sponsored by Purcell Miller Tritton
Mark Bostridge 611
Florence Nightingale
10am / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
The soldier’s saviour, the standard-bearer of modern
nursing, a pioneering social reformer, Florence
Nightingale is one of the most instantly recognisable
figures in British history. But there was much more
to her than her pioneering work as the Lady with
the Lamp in the Crimean War, and in this remarkable
book, the first major biography of Florence Nightingale
in over fifty years, Mark Bostridge draws on a wealth
of unpublished material, including previously unseen
family papers, to throw significant new light on this
extraordinary woman’s life and character.
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