The Soane Museum Study Group is an open forum for scholars – both established and emerging – to present new research into an aspect of architectural history and/or Soane’s collection.

The 2021 programme will be delivered virtually throughout the year with talks posted on the Soane Museum website

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Louise Stewart
‘Faire Halls’: The Spaces of the Sweet Banquet in Early Modern England

Dr Louise Stewart is the Curator of Exhibitions at Sir John Soane’s Museum. Her study group session focuses on an element of her doctoral research, looking at the architecture, decoration and use of sweet banqueting houses in early modern England.

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Image: ‘The Honorable Entertainement geven to the Queenes Majestie in Progresses, at Elvetham in Hampshire, by the right Honorable the Earle of Hertford’, London, 1591, Royal Collection Trust/©Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2016, Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives license.