Georgian Group Journal Online Archive launches

We are delighted to share with our members the following update from the Georgian Group

The Georgian Group has just made available more than 350 articles on 18th-century architecture and design on its website. The Georgian Group Journal, currently edited by Dr Geoffrey Tyack, is the journal of record for early modern architecture in Britain between 1660 to 1840, and was first published in 1986.  Cited more often than any other title in Sir Howard Colvin’s classic reference work A Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600–1840, it is essential reading for anyone interested in the development of architecture during this period. 

The journal also includes articles on architecture in Ireland and the British diaspora, and on urban development, sculpture, painting, interior decoration and garden design. David Adshead, the Group’s Director, said:

We felt that this important resource, the product of more than 30 years’ scholarship by some of the best architectural historians of their day, should be made available online to everyone and in a fully searchable form.

Paul Zisman, the Group’s Chairman, said:

Eighteenth century buildings make up the warp and weft of many of our villages, towns and cities and the better we understand them the more likely we are to cherish and protect them for our successors. This new online resource helps us understand how and why they were designed and built.

To view the online archive, click here. At any given time the three most recent volumes will only be available in print form. Back issues of the Journal are still available to purchase in hard copy by contacting members@georgiangroup.org.uk.

The Georgian Group is the National Amenity Society for the period 1700 to 1837. It was founded in 1937 to protect Georgian buildings, monuments, parks and gardens and to encourage their appropriate conservation.