Name: Buxton Georgian Festival Talk: Narrow examinations’ and ‘thoro inspections’ by Hillary Burlock
Start: 2025-09-24T18:30:00+01:00
Location: The Crescent, SK17 6BH Buxton, United Kingdom

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Narrow examinations’ and ‘thoro inspections’: Dancing at the Georgian Assembly Rooms
What would it be like to attend a ball at the assembly rooms in Georgian Britain?
From the opening minuets to the closing country dances, this talk explores the colourful characters, the stunning spaces, and the triumphs and faux pas within the assembly rooms in Buxton and beyond.
Join Dr Hillary Burlock as she navigates the spoken and unspoken rules of the Georgian ballroom.

Bio: Hillary Burlock is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool, working on the histories of British assembly rooms in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Hillary Burlock was awarded her PhD in History at Queen Mary University of London in 2022 where her thesis explored intersections between Georgian political culture and social dance from 1760 to 1832.
She has held fellowships at the Lewis Walpole Library, Huntington Library, and Royal Archives, and has recently published a collection of essays on the cultural influence of Bath’s Assembly Rooms with Routledge.