Beckford’s Tower: Restored, Reimagined and truth revealed!
The conservation and reimagining of the tower today.
We are very fortunate to welcome Dr Amy Frost to talk to us about the very well-known Bath landmark, Beckford's Tower which has recently undergone a £3.9million conservation and reimagining project supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
This talk will explore the history of the Tower and its creator William Beckford, and how the museum is telling the challenging stories of Beckford's complicity in transatlantic slavery, and how he used his privilege and power to create and abuse.
Amy Frost is the Senior Curator of Bath Preservation Trust, which operates No.1 Royal Crescent, Beckford’s Tower, the Museum of Bath Architecture and the Herschel Museum of Astronomy. An architectural historian, she specialises in British marchitecture of the eighteenth and early nineteenth century as well as the built heritage of Bath. She is a leading expert on the life and aesthetics of the British collector, writer, and owner of enslaved people William Beckford (1760-1844). She is also a lecturer at the University of Bath, School of Architecture and a founder member of the not for profit Bath based organisation ‘Architecture is’.
The event will take place at the Widcombe Social Club and doors open at 7.00pm for a 7.30 start.
