Lecture outline

What can a single year, 1865, tell us about Victorian architecture and ideas? How might Charles Darwin, Alice in Wonderland and one of England’s strangest churches help with the answer?

Biographical note

Rosemary Hill is a writer and historian. Her prize-winning biography of A W N Pugin, God’s Architect, was published in 2007. She has since published books on Stonehenge (2008) and on history in the Romantic Period, Time’s Witness (2022). She is a contributing editor at the London Review of Books, a Vice President of the Victorian Society and a Quondam Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

Attending the lecture

The lecture is open both to members of the Society and to guests.

The lecture will also be streamed on Zoom. A recording of the lecture may be available to members only.