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Grade-I-listed Standen is an Arts and Crafts house. It was designed between 1891 and 1894 by the architect Philip Webb, a friend of William Morris, for a prosperous London solicitor and his family. Image of Standen © David Iliff - license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 Saint Hill Manor΄s interiors reflect the character and int...
There are still 40 churches in the City of London that have survived, some from before the Great Fire and others from the Blitz and they are all different! We shall explore some of them on this tour ranging from the very early period to the early eighteenth century. BUT as the churches are often tucked into streets surrounded by what we would call ...
A talk by Mark Cornwall on Tuesday 20th October 2026 at 6.30pm in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, 26-30 Kensington Palace Gardens, London W8 4QY ‘Traitors’ are a very popular subject today, and the idea that ‘treason’ is lurking in society is an age-old concept. The talk will focus on how traitors have regularly appeared in modern Czech history ...
The Friends organised a very fulfilling walking tour on Sunday 26th April to view the work of Czech émigré architects in London. We started in South Kensington and saw Eva Jiřičná's high-tech staircases: the Bollinger Jewellery Gallery gallery in the V&A dates from 2008, and nearby the Joseph Shop opened specially for the tour so that we could ...
You may read the article about the exhibition in our Newsletter here. Recommendation From Antony Gordon, Reading"I just wanted to thank you for the article about the exhibition 'Vltava; Famed and Flowing' currently showing in Prague (Newsletter Issue 33). On the strength of the piece, my wife and I booked a three-night stay at the Charles Brid...
Collaborations between the British Museum and the Czechoslovak National Gallery in 1980s. Tuesday 18th November 2025 at 6.30pm in the Embassy of the Czech Republic, London W8 4QY. Between 1983 and 1987, as part of a cultural agreement between the UK and Czechoslovakia, the speaker, then a very junior member of the British Museum staff, was instruct...
The ancient Bohemian Crown Jewels, rarely exhibited in the past, will now be shown every year. Our patron Eva Jiřičná, as one of the most famous Czech architects, designed this year's exhibition in the Vladislav Hall of Prague Castle. This exhibition also highlights the jewels' fate during World War 2 and conincides with the 80th anniversary...
Our event by Richard Bassett on Tuesday 7th October 2025 in the Czech Embassy London brought in a full house for a very absorbing talk on a vast subject. This was followed by a long and interesting discussion. Maria Theresa was supremely successful in surrounding herself with the best people and advisers available to achieve her lasting legacy in C...
Kelmscott Manor is a limestone manor house in the Cotswolds village of Kelmscott, in West Oxfordshire, southern England. It dates from around 1570, with a late 17th-century wing, and is listed Grade I. Kelmscott Manor was the country home of the writer, designer and socialist William Morris from 1871 until his death in 1896. Rodmarton Manor is a la...
The restoration and repurposing of the textile factory previously owned by the Low-Beer family and now in the care of a trust headed by Daniel Low-Beer, a descendent of the original owners. The factory has become the Museum of Survivors, a centre for study, reconciliation and creativity, which opened on 10th May 2025. The Friends supported the proj...
