Lutyens and The Cenotaph: Architecture of Profound Emotion

Clive Aslet, Jane Ridley; Host and Moderator: Martin Lutyens & Robin Prater If you enjoyed this webinar and are based in the US please consider supporting our work by joining as a member : https://lutyenstrustamerica.com/membe... If you are based in the UK or elsewhere here is the membership https://www.lutyenstrust.org.uk/about... Nov 12 2020 Clive Aslet Clive is an award-winning architectural historian and journalist, acknowledged as a leading authority on Britain and its way of life. Having joined Country Life in 1977, he was Editor from 1993-2006 and still contributes to it. In addition he writes extensively newspapers such as The Times, as well as broadcasting on radio and television. Clive has published many non-fiction books, including The Last Country Houses and The American Country House, both for Yale University Press; The Last Country Houses was republished as The Edwardian Country House by Frances Lincoln. His first novel, The Birdcage, was published by Cumulus (hardback, 2014) and Sandstone Press (paperback, 2016). He is now working on a series of three novels set at the end of the First World Married with three children, he lives in London and Ramsgate. David Dimbleby describes Clive’s writing as ‘charming, erudite, amusing...His energy, enthusiasm and learning, always lightly worn, are prodigious.’ Jane Ridley Jane Ridley is a historian, biographer, broadcaster, and Professor of Modern History at the University of Buckingham. She has been in charge of the university's Master of Arts course in Biography since establishing it in 1996. This was the first postgraduate course of its kind. She is the current Chairman of the Biographers’ Club. Jane Ridley won the Duff Cooper Prize in 2002 for The Architect and his Wife, a biography of her great-grandfather Edwin Lutyens. Other books include: The Letters of Edwin Lutyens to his Wife Lady Emily, ed. with Clayre Percy, Fox Hunting: A History, The Letters of Arthur Balfour and Lady Elcho, ed. with Clayre Percy, and The Young Disraeli. She wrote an acclaimed biography of Bertie: A life of Edward VII, and this was followed by Queen Victoria: Queen, Empress, Matriarch for the Penguin Monarchs series. She is currently writing a joint biography of King George V and Queen Mary. Moderators: Martin Lutyens & Robin Prater