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Two June recipes from 1783

Back at the start of May we shared

5 Books to read during lockdown: Louise Stewart

Curator Louise Stewart picks her 5 favourite books to read during the lockdown period.

Lockdown travel with the Soanes: Margate

We're examining the travel of the Soane family

Lockdown travel with the Soanes: Chertsey

In this extract from At Home with the Soanes: Upstairs Downstairs in 19th Century London, by Susan Palmer, we examine the Soane family's leisure trips to Chertsey.

Tour the Soane the old-fashioned way with a tour from 1979

In 1979, Sir John Summerson, renowned architectural historian

5 Books to read during lockdown: Bruce Boucher

Director Bruce Boucher picks his 5 favourite books to read during the lockdown period.

Listen: Langlands & Bell in conversation with Tony Chambers

Listen to the recording of our recent in-conversation event between Langlands & Bell and Tony Chambers online.

Look back on 'Eric Parry: Drawing' in this new film

In February 2019 the work of leading architect Eric Parry (b. 1952) was exhibited across Sir John Soane's Museum. In this video by Eric Parry Architects, Eric Parry, and Senior Curator of Exhibitions and Education Owen Hopkins, discuss the architect's work over the past four decades.

Conserving two portraits in the South Drawing Room

Two large portraits of Sir John Soane and his two sons, John and George, have recently returned to the South Drawing Room after months of painstaking conservation work.

Three key artworks from 'Hogarth: Place and Progress'

Hogarth: Place and Progress unites all of Hogarth’s

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