News and updates from ENCOUNTER

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25.03.2024: Casa de Cerca, a contemporary art center – and a historic estate

25.03.2024:‘Buitenplaatsen bij de Rotte’; new volume on the country houses in the Rotterdam area

25.03.2024: Hidden Lives: Domestic servants in the European country house, 1700-1850

25.03.2024: New Book online: PARVENUE. Bürgerlicher Aufstieg im Spiegel der Objektkultur im 18. Jahrhundert

25.03.2024: The public country house: ‘Treasure of quiet beauty’ or a site for public histories?

25.03.2024: Second volume of “Eesti mõisad ja lossid” [Estonian Manors and Castles] is out

25.03.2024: One’s just reward? Servants’ wages, terms of employment and tangible assets in a changing manorial economy, 1730-1870

15.12.2023: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS: “MANORS AT WAR”

12.12.2023: Global Goods and the Country House

12.12.2023: Second volume on the bilingual typology of manor houses in the Baltic Sea region is published

12.12.2023: Introducing Håkansböle Manor – a new Manor Museum in the making

12.12.2023: The public country house: ‘Treasure of quiet beauty’ or a site for public histories?

12.12.2023: Hidden lives: domestic servants in the European country house, c.1700-1850

12.12.2023: New book: Borrowed Landscapes

29.09.2023: CfP: Manors at War, the 8th ENCOUNTER conference, June 13th – 15th, 2024 in Espoo, Finland

29.09.2023: Successful joint venture; Nordic symposium on manors and manor museums and the 7th ENCOUNTER

28.09.2023: A new research network: Hidden lives domestic servants in the European country house c. 1700-1850

28.09.2023: New book: Teaching Landscape History

28.09.2023: News from the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek

26.09.2023: New book: Resilient Estate Landscapes Gelderland. Past | Present | Future

15.06.2023: New book: Lauritz de Thurah – Architecture and Worldviews in 18th century Denmark

14.06.2023: Call for Papers: Informal spaces and practices of diplomacy, 1750–1850

14.06.2023: The country and manor houses of Kralingen

14.06.2023: Swedish chairs from the Swedish Empire era at the castles of Mälsåker and Örbyhus

07.06.2023: Programme for the Nordic symposium on manors and manor museums/7th ENCOUNTER Conference

17.03.2023: Danish Manors and Country Houses on Instagram

17.03.2023: The Espoo Manor project

13.03.2023: Research Centre for Manors in the Baltic Sea Region

13.03.2023: Research project Global connections and local contexts: the material culture of Saltram, c. 1725-1840

13.03.2023: Introducing the Józef Piłsudski Museum in Sulejówek