Writing
Julian's revision of the Wiltshire volume of The Buildings of England series was published 8 June 2021. Current writing projects include buildings of Taunton of Victoria County History of Somerset, a book with Timothy Mowl on Unbuilt Bath, published in October 2023, and a piece on C.E. Giles, architect, for the Proceedings of Somerset Archaeological & Nat history Soc (SANHS), with a view to editing his unpublished autobiography for the Somerset Record Society.
Lecturing
Atworth History Society Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner 13 May 2024 Atworth Village Hall, Wilts, 7.30.
Bradford on Avon U3A 14 February 2024 The Buildings of Marlborough 2.30 Quaker Meeting House, Bradford on Avon
West Wilts branch Historical Assn Unbuilt Bath 14 December 2023 7.30 St Thomas church rooms, Trowbridge.
Frome Civic Society The rebuilding of Frome parish church 1862-5 2 December 2023 2.30 Assembly Rooms Frome
Victoria County History Wiltshire Bewley Court near Lacock 8 June 2023 fundraising talk
Atworth History Society Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner 6 March 2023 Cancelled, rescheduled 13 May 2024;
Victorian Society zoom talk 31 January 2023 Finding Pevsner in Wales: revising the Welsh Pevsners Cancelled, talk given by R Scourfield
Wimborne Civic Society 21 February 2023 Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner Allendale Centre Wimborne Minster Cancelled due to heart attack January 2023, to be rescheduled in 2024
West Wiltshire branch Historical Association C.E. Giles, architect St Thomas church hall Trowbridge 17 November 2022 7.30
Cambridge graduates of Somerset talk on Somerset architecture Shepton Montague 17 November 2022 12.30 p.m
Warminster Museum & History Soc The Buildings of Warminster 15 October 2022 2.30 pm Warminster Library
Marlborough History Society talk Revising Pevsner/Marlborough buildings 15 September 2022 St Peter's church, Marlborough 7.30
Church of St Theodore Port Talbot talk on the architect J L Pearson for the 125th anniversary possibly indefinitely postponed
Zoom lecture SANHS on Somerset Chapels and Meeting-Houses, 28 April 2022 7.30 Available on SANHS website.
Frome Civic Society talk Revising Wiltshire Pevsner 5 March 2022 2.30 Assembly Rooms Frome
Bremhill History Festival lecture Bremhill buildings 11 December 2021 time tbc
West Wilts branch Historical Association talk William Morris and William de Morgan 18 November 2021 St Thomas church hall, Trowbridge
Cambridge graduates of Somerset, talk on Somerset architecture Shepton Montague 4 November 2021 Members only. Cancelled
Atworth History Society 1 November 2021 Buildings of Atworth Atworth Village Hall. Cancelled
Mere Historical Society talk Reviewing Pevsner and buildings of Mere 5 October 2021 7.00 Grove Building Church St Mere
Watchet Conservation Society talk The Buildings of England - telling the story. Methodist schoolroom, Harbour Rd Watchet 21 September 2021
Launch of Wiltshire Pevsner volume Marlborough College 22 July 2021
Victoria County History talk on the published Wiltshire volume, Devizes Museum on zoom Thursday 8 July 2021 7.30 pm
Chalke Valley History Festival Broad Chalke Pevsner's Wiltshire Revised 23 June 2021 3.45 pm
Launch of Wiltshire volume from Paul Mellon Centre London 15 June 2021 6.00 p.m. Available on Paul Mellon Centre website
SANHS visit to Low Ham church 20 June 2020 Cancelled
Somerset Vernacular Buildings Research Group, Vernacular buildings of Wiltshire & Somerset, Compton Dundon Hall 15 April 2020 7.30. To be rearranged
Salisbury Local History Society T.H. Wyatt Victorian Architect 31 March 2020 Salvation Army Hall To be rearranged
SANHS William de Morgan day, De Morgan, Morris and the Arts & Crafts 22 February 2020 Somerset History Centre 1.30
Bradford on Avon U3A 15 January 2020 The Buildings of Trowbridge Bradford on Avon Library 2.30
SANHS General Meeting 10.00 Albemarle Centre, Taunton The autobiography of C.E. Giles, architect. 12.15 7 December 2019
SANHS Victorian Churches day St Andrew's Church Hall, Taunton, Somerset Victorian architects 9 November 2019
South Petherton Local History Society, Somerset Nonconformist Chapels 23 October 2019
Martock Local History Society, Somerset Nonconformist Chapels 22 October 2019
Huish Episcopi School, Somerset: SANHS day conference on Low Ham Low Ham church 19 October 2019
Trowbridge West Wiltshire branch Historical Assoc T.H. Wyatt, Victorian architect 17 October 2019 7.30 St Thomas church hall
Salisbury Civic Society 19 September 2019 Buildings of Salisbury
Bradford on Avon The Hall, Alex Moulton Trust 11 September 2019 7.00 The Hall an Elizabethan House
Somerset Churches Trust tour of churches around Beckington/ Norton St Philip 17 August 2019
Hadspen House gardens tour SANHS 2.00
Cricklade Wiltshire Record Soc AGM Town Hall 29 June 2019 2.30 Revising Wiltshire Pevsner
Victoria County History fund-raiser 27 June 2019 Cadenham Manor
Tintinhull Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society AGM 11 May 2019 Community Hall. Tour around Tintinhull
Bratton Church Institute Tynings Lane The Buildings of Westbury 28 April 2019 5.00
Salisbury Museum Revising Pevsner on Wiltshire churches 30 March 3.30 Wilts Historic Churches Trust AGM
Bemerton T.H. Wyatt Victorian architect 28 November 2018 7.30 St John's Place, Bemerton
Trowbridge Civic Society, Buildings of Trowbridge, Town Hall, Trowbridge 27 November 2018 7.30
Ham Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner 22 November 7 p.m. Ham Village Hall
Box Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner 20 November 2018 Methodist Hall, Box, 7.30
Taunton SANHS Volunteers day walk around Taunton 15 October 2018 Friends Meeting 9.45 am
Westbury Buildings of Westbury 2 October 7.30 Methodist Church
North Bradley Trowbridge U3A Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner 25 June 2018 14.15 Progressive Hall
Clyffe Pypard Fundraising event Victoria County History 11 June 2018
Taunton Museum of Somerset. Buildings of South Somerset 8 March 2018
Atworth History Group Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner 8 January 2018
Art Fund Somerset lecture Revising Pevsner Somerton 12 November 2017
Wilts Historic Buildings Trust Thomas Henry Wyatt and other Victorians Kerry Suite Bowood 3 November 2017 1.30
Trowbridge Historical Association West Wilts branch 19 October 2017 'Trowbridge revisited', St Thomas church room.
Long Sutton Quaker Meeting tercentenary lecture 10.30 8 July 2017
Goathurst and Halswell tour for Arts Fund Bristol & Bath branch 15 June 2017
Victoria County History talk Odstock Manor 8 June 2017
Victorian Taunton tour for Victorian Society 22 April 2017
Trowbridge. Historical Assoc West Wilts branch 19 January 2017 'Trowbridge revisited' Cancelled due to illness
Bruton Trust 17 November 2016 Buildings of Bruton
Salisbury Civic Society 10 November 2016 'Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner'.
Devizes. Trust for Devizes 'Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner' 21 October 2016
Market Lavington 15 October 2016 Talk Wiltshire Buildings Record symposium
Corsham Civic Society 30 September 2016 'Corsham revisited'
Four Taunton churches, walking tour Somerset Churches Trust 14 May 2016
Bradford on Avon walking tour Victorian Society South Wales Group 16 April 2016
St Luke Bath, and Norton Malreward, visit to Playfair Prize finalist and winner, Somerset Churches Trust
Chippenham Civic Society January 19th 2016 'Chippenham revisited'
Frome Civic Society January 16th 2016. 'Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner'.
Bradford on Avon Preservation Trust October 29th 2015 'Revising the Wiltshire Pevsner'
Ebenezer Chapel lectures, Aller, April 27th 2015. Ian Constantinides Memorial Symposium.
Somerset Vernacular Buildings Recording Group, Somerton April 25th 2015. 'The revised South & West Somerset'.
St Margaret's Hall, Bradford on Avon March 18th 2015 'The buildings of Bradford on Avon'
At the Chapel, Bruton. March 12th 2015. 'Bruton and the Pevsner revision'
Ebenezer Chapel lectures, Aller, Somerset. February 27th 2015. 'The revised South & West Somerset'.
The Georgian Group, London. February 25th 2015. 'Georgian South and West Somerset'.
Somerset Archaeological & Natural History Society, Taunton. February 14th 2015 'The revised South & West Somerset'.
Market Hall, Castle Cary January 22nd 2015. 'Castle Cary and the revised South & West Somerset'
Frome Civic Society. March 8th 2014. 'Revising Pevsner.'
Somerset Building Preservation Trust, Castle House, Taunton Castle. Friday 18th October 2013. 'Revising Pevsner.'
Hay Festival May 2013. 'Market halls - The Civic Cinderellas. 'http://hayfestivalwire.hayfestival.org/post/51793412131/hay-cheese-market-regeneration-project-julian
Ebeneezer Chapel, Burrowbridge May 2012 - 'Pevsnering around Somerset.'
Hay Festival May 2011 'Buildings of Gwynedd' introduced by Sir Simon Jenkins