Country Seats and Sporting Feats

Our Chair Margaret Roberts invites you to step onto manicured lawns where tennis was played in long skirts, horses were exercised more than their riders, and country houses doubled as surprisingly energetic playgrounds. From earnest athletic endeavours to gloriously impractical pastimes, the talk uncovers how sport, status and a healthy sense of fun collided behind the grand façades of Britain’s country estates, with many examples from Tabley House 

Admission charges apply - FHSC Members £2, all others £3