Knowledge Exchange Showcase - Jewish Country Houses

Abigail Green (Faculty of History), Nino Strachey (National Trust),
and Silvia Davoli, (Strawberry Hill House) give a presentation on
their Knowledge Exchange research project on Jewish Country Houses
Professor Abigail Green is Tutorial Fellow in History at Brasenose
College. She works at the interface between modern European history
and international Jewish history, and is the author of Fatherlands:
State-building and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Germany (2001),
which was shortlisted in the Historisches Buch awards, and of Moses
Montefiore: Jewish Hero, Imperial Liberator (2010), which won the
Sami Rohr Choice Award, and was nominated a TLS Book of the Year
and a New Republic Best Book of 2010. She is working on a book
tentatively entitled Children of 1848: Liberalism and the Jews from
the Revolutions to Human Rights, to be published by Princeton
University Press, and has just been awarded a 4 year AHRC Research
Grant to lead a major collaborative project ‘Jewish Country Houses
– Objects, Networks People’. Nino Strachey, National Trust Nino
Strachey is Head of Research and Specialist Advice for the National
Trust. Since starting her career with the Landmark Trust, she has
worked for English Heritage and the National Trust, curating the
homes of scientists (Darwin), politicians (Churchill) and writers
(Shaw). Her research focuses on the expression of personality
through place, interpreting the biography of buildings and
collections. Her recent book 'Rooms of their own: Eddy
Sackville-West, Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West' looks at the
homes of three writers linked to the Bloomsbury Group, and explores
changing attitudes to sexuality and gender in the 1920s and 30s.
She is a Trustee of the Strawberry Hill Collections Trust, a member
of the Mercers Heritage and Arts Advisory Group, and has been a
Guardian of the Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings
Silvia Davoli, Strawberry Hill House Dr Silvia Davoli is the
Research Curator at Strawberry Hill House and is a specialist in
the history of collecting. Since 2013 she has been researching the
whereabouts of the Horace Walpole Collection. She recently curated
the exhibition Strawberry Hill Lost Treasures. Masterpieces from
the Horace Walpole Collection (Oct. 2018- Feb.2019). In the past
years she has conducted provenance research for a number of museums
such as the Wallace Collection, National Gallery of London,
Waddesdon Manor and the Museum of Asian Art in Berlin. She is one
of the core members of the Jewish Country House Project. Her
contribution in particular focus on Jewish Collectors and art
dealers.