Kedleston Hall Aka Stately Home (1962)
Kedleston, Derbyshire.
L/S of a big ornate four poster bed, there are lots of paintings round the walls. A lady is sat in a chair by the bed sewing, the room is in Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire and the woman is Lady Scarsdale. M/S as she sits sewing, C/U of the tapestry she is sewing. C/U of her face, she looks up. M/S of the ornate gold leaf on the canopy of the bed, the camera pans down to the bed head.
L/S of a long room with paintings and various bits of armour and swords on the wall. A suit of armour is stood on the right and there is a settee and a table covered with more armour on the left. Lord Scarsdale walks down the hall and picks up a rifle. M/S as he takes part of the handle off and moves the barrel round, he cleans it with a cloth and oils it. C/U as he replaces the handle, sites along it and pulls the trigger, M/S as he puts it down again. He picks up a helmet from a suit of armour and starts polishing it with a hand held electric polisher, M/S as he polishes the helmet. The narrator explains that Kedleston Hall once had a staff of 29 but now there are about 6 people who help out including Lord and Lady Scarsdale. M/S as Lord Scarsdale picks up a cloth and starts to rub the helmet.
Exterior - L/S of the South Front, a large building containing the Scarsdale coronation robes. Interior - L/S of Lord and Lady Scarsdale in a room with the robes, she is adjusting one of the outfits. M/S as she goes over to her husband who is painting what looks like a big square cushion with a stick running through it, she points to part of it. C/U as he smiles at his wife and carries on painting, C/U of Lady Scarsdale watching him. L/S as a butler opens the door to the living room and brings in a tea tray. L/S of Lord and Lady Scarsdale in their ostentatious living room, they are sat in front of an open fire, the butler places the tray on the table and puts another log on the fire, Lady Scarsdale pours the tea.
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Curzon family Kedleston Hall in Derbyshire, England UK now a National Trust property. A view of some of the beautiful decoration
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Based at the University of Leicester’s Centre for New Writing, Colonial Countryside is a national writing and history project in partnership with Peepal Tree Press and the National Trust.
This project assembles authors, writers, historians and primary pupils to explore country houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections. It commissions, resources and publishes new writing.
· Over 100 primary children will visit 10 National Trust houses.
· Each child is crafting short personal essays and fiction, presenting it to live, print and digital audiences.
· Peepal Tree is commissioning 10 authors and 10 historians to write stories and historical commentaries about each participating house for an illustrated book about the topic.
Kedleston is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire. It lies to the north-west of Derby, and nearby places include Quarndon, Weston Underwood, Mugginton, and Kirk Langley.
Completed under the watchful eye of famous architect Robert Adam, Kedleston Hall was built for Sir Nathaniel Curzon in 1765 as a house to rival Chatsworth. Intended as 'a temple of the arts' and as the location for grand entertainments, the main house was never meant to be a family home, but a show palace in which to showcase the finest paintings, sculpture and furniture.
Kedleston Hall isn't just a prime example of 18th century Palladian and Neoclassical inspired architecture, it is also the ancestral residence of the Curzon family. The Curzons came to Britain from Normandy at the time of William the Conqueror and we estimate that they have been at Kedleston since the 1150s.
The property boasts a number of portraits and pedigrees detailing the succession of such a long standing family. The Hall we see today replaced an earlier medieval house and village of slightly more modest proportions; however the current Kedleston still houses some furniture which we believe came from the previous building.
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Inside Kedleston Hall, a national trust property in Derbyshire, England, UK
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The Centre for New Writing
School of English
University of Leicester
Leicester, LE1 7RH
newwriting@le.ac.uk
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Director:
Dr Corinne Fowler
Deputy Directors:
Dr Harry Whitehead
Mr Nick Everett
Project Manager:
(Colonial Countryside)
Kevin Ncube
Useful Links:
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Kedleston Hall was always intended as a showpiece rather than a comfortable family home; in fact the family has lived in the private family wing and still do to this day. The large central block was a largely uninhabited entertaining space with the servants' quarters and service areas housed in the West Wing. What is now our restaurant was once the Great Kitchen, catering for the Curzon families' great banquets and dinner parties.
The State Floor reflects the austere grandeur of a show palace and that’s how it was always intended. Purposely designed to showcase the families wealth and power, as a ‘temple to the arts’ to showcase their collection of art and fine furniture. From the moment you ascend the Great Staircase to the State Floor you are transported back to 18th century opulence. Painstakingly restored over the last 30 years, it reflects Robert Adam’s original vision of luxury.
Dates
Keep Friday 16 November 2018 free for our first Colonial Countryside children's conference at St. James the Greater Church in Leicester, UK. The children's conference is part of the free Literary Leicester festival.
Resources for writers
This website will shortly be populated with resources for writers who wish to research and write about country houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections.
Web links
· Colonial Countryside: Ten New Creative Commissions
Contacts
Dr Corinne Fowler (csf11@le.ac.uk)
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Ten New Creative Commissions
Introducing 10 new creative writing commissions at £1,200 each for ‘Colonial Countryside: English Country Houses Reinterpreted.’
About the project
Colonial Countryside is a child-led writing and history project about National Trust houses’ Caribbean and East India Company connections. Steered by a child advisory board, this five year project assembles authors, historians and primary pupils to commission, resource and publish new writing. 100 primary children will visit 10 National Trust properties and craft new writing, presenting it to live, print and digital audiences. They will present their work at a conference during the Literary Leicester festival in November 2018. The majority of children are of Caribbean or South Asian heritage and this project will encourage them to think of themselves as public figures who will reshape the national narrative and make this history widely known.
Peepal Tree will commission 10 authors to write about each participating house. The commissioned work will be published in an illustrated “coffee table” style book containing the ten creative commissions accompanied by accessible historical commentaries written by experts in the field. Commissioned writers will give inaugural readings and appear at literary festivals and black history events nationwide.
The National Trust has over 5 million members and the commissioned writing will have a large readership. These 10 high-profile commissions are also designed to stimulate a new wave of writing about this topic. In order to resource this, the Colonial Countryside project will create a writers’ resource website, delivered by the historical team, and a massive online open course (MOOC), co-produced by children and historians.
Edwardian Kedleston
The ground floor is a stark contrast to the 18th century glamour above, decorated to reflect the Edwardian period it was a more functional space and everyday entrance. It still serves this purpose today as this is where you’ll start your journey as you explore the hall.
The museum on the ground floor of the Hall is home to Lord Curzon’s ‘Eastern Collection’, an eclectic mix of treasures he amassed whilst Viceroy of India. From intricate ivory carvings to samurai swords there are hundreds of artifacts collected on his travels to India, Tibet, China and Nepal.
Not to be missed is Mary Curzon's Peacock dress which now takes pride of place in its own room. You can now admire it's delicate metal embroidery and beetle shell embellishments from every angle as you walk around it. The dress is over one hundred years old but it still able to captivate the room, much as it did when Lady Curzon wore it to the Delhi Durbar ball in 1903. Designed not only as as a beautiful fashion item but also as a deliberate political statement.
About the commissions
Commissioned writers will be advised by historians who are experts in the field. The participating National Trust properties provide a varied picture of stately homes’ colonial links, telling a range of stories about slave-produced wealth, East India Company connections, colonial administrators, black servants, slave-trading voyages, colonial business interests, Chinese wallpaper, Victorian plant hunters and imperial interior design.
Commissioned writers will receive a fee of £1,200 and an allowance of up to £400 to cover research, travel and accommodation. They will attend a work-in-progress day at the University of Leicester. Public engagement is central to this project. Social media training is available if required (writers will post social media content on the project’s behalf or the project manager will post approved content on their behalf). In year three of the project, writers may be asked to give an inaugural reading at the country house featured in their commissioned pieces. Commissioned writers will also be invited to attend literature festivals and black history month events, with expenses paid.
The commissioned work will be published in an illustrated book published by Peepal Tree Press. It is also likely to feature in exhibitions in numerous houses throughout the National Trust’s Challenging Histories year in 2022.