March 13th, 2012

 by

Mr Roger Mitchell 

This lecture will be about people and buildings and the interaction between them.  Four hundred years after her death, Bess remains a powerful personality and her houses and her family have stood the test of time.

Biography

Roger Mitchell studied History at Oxford and Fine Art at Leeds.  He was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to travel and study in the USA. He is a former College Vice-Principal who now lectures for the University of Liverpool and for Adult Residential Colleges. Roger Mitchell organizes and leads country house study tours and tries to find time for research at Chatsworth.

Reading List

D.Durant: Bess of Hardwick, Portrait of an Elizabethan Dynast, 1977

M.Lovell: Bess of Hardwick: First Lady of Chatsworth, 2005

M.Girouard:  Robert Smythson and the Elizabethan Country House , 1983

M.Girouard:  Elizabethan Architecture, 2009

T.Lummis & J.Marsh:  The Woman’s Domain, 1990

G.Trease:  Portrait of a Cavalier, William Cavendish, 1^st Duke of Newcastle, 1979

L.Worsley:  Cavalier – A Tale of Chivalry, Passion and Great Houses, 2007

F.Thompson:  A History of Chatsworth, 1949

F.Thompson:  Chatsworth – A Short History, 1951

D.Cavendish:  The House – A Portrait of Chatsworth, 1982

D.Cavendish:  The Gardens at Chatsworth, 1999

J.Barnatt & T.Williamson:  Chatsworth – A Landscape History, 2005

A.Foreman:  Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, 1998

J.Lees-Milne:  The Bachelor Duke, 1991

S.Gristwood:  Arbella: England’s Lost Queen,  2002