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23 June 2026The Glories of Ancient RomeLecture
10 June 2026Special Interest Day - CancelledLecture
26 May 2026The Stave Churches of Norway: History, Architecture and DecorationLecture
28 April 2026Saints, Sinners and Still Life: The Sacred Art of Francisco de ZubaránLecture
24 March 2026How to Get Down From a Yak - Adventures in Central Asian Nomadic TextilesLecture
24 February 2026Renoir during the 1890s: The search for a classical idyll.Lecture
27 January 2026Great Gardens of the 18th Century: Landscape Gardening from Ha-has to HermitsLecture
08 December 2025The Curious History of Christmas FoodLecture
25 November 2025The History of American Art in 25 Iconic WorksLecture
28 October 2025Virtual Realities: The Art of FrescoLecture
25 September 2025Canterbury Cathedral Visit & TourVisit
23 September 2025Britain and Bauhaus: Modern Design in the 1930sLecture
26 June 2025Waddesdon Manor - (CANCELLED) But well worth a visit. You do need time.Visit
24 June 2025Modern British SculptureLecture
27 May 2025Cambodia: The Sacred Art of Angkor Wat and Living ArtsLecture
22 April 2025The Silver Thread: Silver Filagree and Traditional Arts in KosovoLecture
25 March 2025The World's Greatest Paintings: 200 Years of the National GalleryLecture
25 February 2025Klimt and the Viennes Secession - 'A Kiss For All The World"Lecture
28 January 2025Vermeer, The Whole StoryLecture
12 December 2024Nothing Says Christmas Like an Axe-Fight: winter festivities in the age of chivalry.Lecture
26 November 2024Ukraine, Ilya Repin and the End of EmpireLecture
22 October 2024Gentileschi: Daughter of Rome, painter of EuropeLecture
26 September 2024Visit to Godinton HouseVisit
24 September 2024Britain's Art Deco Architecture: Our Love Affair with Civic and Domestic Buildings of the 1920's and 1930'sLecture
23 July 2024Summer Break - No lectureLecture
25 June 2024Woodblock Prints of the Eco Period: Hokusai & Hiroshiga (18th-19th Centuries)Lecture
14 June 2024Special Interest Day - The End of Shadows: Light and the Painter - From 10:00 to 14:30Lecture
05 June 2024Guided tour of Belmont House Visit
28 May 2024Italian Art and Architecture of the Risorgimento Lecture
23 April 2024Moorish Architecture: The Legacy of a Vanished KingdomLecture
26 March 2024Mucha and the Slav EpicLecture
27 February 2024With Just a Needle and ThreadLecture
23 January 2024The Men Who Made MenswearLecture
12 December 2023Harp and Holly (Fully booked)Lecture
28 November 2023Jan Breughel: The Entire World on His Panel, Patience of a Saint, Industry of an Ant.Lecture
24 October 2023Bach and Handel - Separated at Birth Lecture
26 September 2023Salvador Dali: 20th Century Renaissance ArtistLecture
24 September 20231 - 24 September NEWPORT STREET GALLERY in LondonVisit
25 July 2023All Saints' Church, Tudeley - To see the marvellous Marc Chagall Stained Glass WindowsVisit
25 July 2023St Thomas a Becket Church at Capel - Option after the Tudeley visit .Visit
27 June 2023Atkinson Grimshaw: Master of MoonlightLecture
23 May 2023Feasts and FantasyLecture
25 April 2023Castles: The Unquenchable Thirst of William Randolph HearstLecture
28 March 2023The Curious Life and Times of Alfred HitchcockLecture
28 February 2023Krakov: The City of the DragonLecture
24 January 2023Danish Modernism: The Skagen PaintersLecture
22 November 2022In the Kingdom of the SweetsLecture
25 October 2022The Architecture of Mughal India: Palaces, Mosques, Gardens and MausoleumsLecture
27 September 2022Pearls and Pomegranates, Peacocks and Pipers: The Hidden Language of Renaissance ArtLecture
28 June 2022Historic Gardens of the Italian LakesLecture
24 May 2022Mars and the Muses: The Renaissance Art of ArmourLecture
26 April 2022Mad Men and the Artists: how the advertising industry has exploited fine artLecture
29 March 2022How to Read the English Country ChurchLecture
22 February 2022Caravaggio: Murderer or Genius?Lecture
25 January 2022Jean Etienne Liotard: Artist, Collector, MerchandiserLecture
14 December 2021A Dickens of a ChristmasLecture
23 November 2021Norman Rockwell's Christmas WishLecture
26 October 2021Tulipmania, A Seventeenth Century Passion in Art, Gardens and CollectingLecture
28 September 2021John Singer Sargent: Power of the PortraitLecture
22 June 2021The Bauhaus and Beyond: The Arts in Europe Between the World WarsLecture
25 May 2021Adventures Amongst the Nomadic Tribes of Iran and AfghanistanLecture
27 April 2021The Age of JazzLecture
23 March 2021Cathedrals: Safe Places to do Risky ThingsLecture
23 February 2021Treasures of UrbinoLecture
30 January 2021To Kill a KingVisit
26 January 2021Nicholas and Alexandra - Tyrants and Martyrs of Imperial RussiaLecture
15 December 2020The Goose is Getting Fat - A History of Christmas TraditionsLecture
24 November 2020Next Move: the game of chess and the birth of conceptual artLecture
27 October 2020Hidden Canvasses - Street Art and the CityLecture
22 September 2020Beauty in Truth -The past, present and future of botanical art and illustrationLecture
02 July 2020Waddesdon ManorVisit
30 April 2020The Music Museum at Kew and Pitzhanger ManorVisit
11 April 2020Dulwich Picture Gallery and Eltham PalaceVisit
25 February 2020Joseph Wright of Derby – A Painter of Light and The EnlightenmentLecture
28 January 2020From Paper to Printing – The Development of the Book along the Silk RoadLecture
26 November 2019Lawrence of Arabia – Tortured Hero of Troubled TimesLecture
22 October 2019The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and the Architecture of Frank GehryLecture
24 September 2019Picasso and his WomenLecture
19 September 2019Ranger’s House in Greenwich and Hall place and GardensVisit
20 June 2019St AlbansVisit