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10 September 2026Lee Miller and Roland Penrose at Farley FarmLecture
02 July 2026WAKEHURST PLACE, HAYWARDS HEATH & FARLEYS HOUSE AND GALLERY, LEWESVisit
11 June 2026The Roots of JazzLecture
14 May 2026The Mythologising of a Pharaoh: Akhenaten, deformed or divine?Lecture
22 April 2026BOWOOD HOUSE AND GARDENS, CALNE, WILTSHIREVisit
09 April 2026Tirzah Garwood: Beyond RaviliousLecture
12 March 2026Frozen Breath of the Polar Night: an introduction to Art Nouveau GlassLecture
12 February 2026Michael-Jean Cazabon: an Anglo-French watercolour painter in Nineteenth-Century TrinidadLecture
08 January 2026Singing in Secret: William Byrd, Queen Elizabeth, and worship under wrapsLecture
11 December 2025IN NEED OF NATIVITY (SOCIAL HISTORY OF THE FAVOURITE BIBLICAL SCENE)Lecture
13 November 2025MAGIC IN BYZANTIUM: IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS Lecture
09 October 2025BLOOMSBURY GROUP: THE ART OF VANESSA BELLLecture
11 September 2025THE CITY OF KYOTO & THE CULT OF BEAUTYLecture
12 June 2025LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION; BLENHEIM PALACE, THE STAR OF FILM & TV! Lecture
08 May 2025COOL MARBLE! THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE TO GREEK SCULPTURELecture
01 May 2025STONOR PARK AND GARDENS, Henley-on-ThamesVisit
10 April 2025OFF THE RECORD: ALBUM COVER ART 1950-2000 Lecture
07 April 2025Covent Garden - A Story in Three Acts!Special Event
13 March 2025EDOUARD MANET AND MUSICLecture
13 February 2025THE FALL INTO KNOWLEDGE: THE STORY OF PROMETHEUS AND HOW HIS PLIGHT HAS CAPTIVATED AND INFLUENCED WRITERS AND ARTISTS OVER THE YEARSLecture
09 January 2025WARWICK CASTLE: A FORGOTTEN COLLECTIONLecture
12 December 2024The Curious History of Christmas FoodLecture
14 November 2024The Centenary of Winnie-the-PoohLecture
28 October 2024The British Empire and Imperial India: Images, Architecture and the ArtsSpecial Event
17 October 2024CHEVENAGE HOUSE, TetburyVisit
10 October 2024MARC CHAGALL Wandering Jew or Citizen of the WorldLecture
12 September 2024She Takes a Good Picture: The pioneering female photographers of the 19th and early 20th centuries.Lecture
20 June 2024SEZINCOTE and Batsford Arboretum Moreton-in-MarshVisit
13 June 2024ISFAHAN and the History of Persian TileworkLecture
09 May 2024JELLY - From the High Table to the High Chair. The Cultural Demise of JellyLecture
18 April 2024CHARLESTON, East Sussex Visit
11 April 2024British Art From Eggs to BaconLecture
14 March 2024Anna of DenmarkLecture
08 February 2024The Roaring Twenties: Art, Design and High SocietyLecture
11 January 2024Sadler‘s Wells – The Theatrical MothershipLecture
14 December 2023Norman Rockwell’s Christmas WishLecture
09 November 2023The Two Gustavs: Mahler and KlimtLecture
12 October 2023Edith Durham’s Edwardian Collection of Beautiful Balkan ThingsLecture
05 October 2023A visit to Parham House and GardensVisit
14 September 2023Berthe Morisot and her Contemporary Women Artists in FranceLecture
22 June 2023Hatfield House HertfordshireVisit
08 June 2023The Art and Art Noveau of the Paris MetroLecture
11 May 2023The Enigma of Edward ElgarLecture
20 April 2023National Gallery LondonVisit
13 April 2023History of England’s Architecture in 10 Great BuildingsLecture
03 April 2023Rome’s Southern Shores Study DaySpecial Event
09 March 2023JMW Turner – Out of the Shadows and into the Light Lecture
09 February 2023Whodunnit? Agatha Christie’s Life and Crimes in LondonLecture
12 January 2023The Art of the Cartoonist Lecture
08 December 2022Golden Gobblers – The Turkey in Art and LifeLecture
10 November 2022Four Foundational Features of Art and ArchitectureLecture
21 October 2022A visit to the Sir John Soane Museum, Lincoln’s InnVisit
13 October 2022From Downton to GatsbyLecture
09 September 2022Woman ImpressionistsLecture
23 June 2022Chastleton House and GardenVisit
09 June 2022Last supper in PompeiiLecture
12 May 2022Tamara de Lempicka – Mistress of Art DecoLecture
28 April 2022The Watts Gallery and Artists VillageVisit
14 April 2022Historic Gardens of the Italian LakesLecture
10 March 2022Happy and GloriousLecture
10 February 2022Bombing with Banksy and CoLecture
14 January 2022The Arts Society Chiltern Hills Area Special Interest Day 2022 - What Makes a painting a Work of Art?Special Event
13 January 2022Donatello and the Sculpture of the RenaissanceLecture
09 December 2021Art Inspired by WineLecture
11 November 2021Willian J Neatby – The Master of Harrod’s Meat HallLecture
14 October 2021Art behind barsLecture
09 September 2021Clara Rhino superstarLecture
10 June 2021From Bronzes to BanksyLecture
13 May 2021Coventry Cathedral – Icon and InspirationLecture
01 May 2021Special Interest Days 2021Special Event
22 April 2021A Virtual Visit to Vintners' Hall LondonVisit
08 April 2021A Provocative Beauty – the Art of Grayson Perry and AGMLecture
11 March 2021Rome in Africa, Africa in RomeLecture
25 February 2021Online at the Watts Gallery/Artists VillageVisit
11 February 2021William Morris and the Arts and Crafts HomeLecture
14 January 2021The Genius of RaphaelLecture
10 December 2020A Dickens of a Christmas and God Bless Us EveryoneLecture
12 November 2020Les Parisiennes – How Women Lived, Loved and Died in Paris in the 1940sLecture
16 October 2020SIR JOHN SOANE’S MUSEUM, LondonVisit
08 October 2020Who was Tutankhamun?Lecture
10 September 2020The Genius of RaphaelLecture
25 June 2020CHASTLETON HOUSE, CotswoldVisit
11 June 2020Art Inspired by WineLecture
14 May 2020Clare Rhino SuperstarLecture
30 April 2020WATTS GALLERY MUSEUM, GuildfordVisit
09 April 2020A.G.M. Then Historic Gardens of the Italian LakesLecture
12 March 2020Food and Art through the AgesLecture
13 February 2020The World of the Bayeux TapestryLecture
09 January 2020Images of the British EmpireLecture
05 December 2019Is Christmas in Good TasteLecture
14 November 2019The Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao and the Architecture of Frank GehryLecture
24 October 2019A Visit to St Albans CathedralVisit
10 October 2019The Power of JewelleryLecture
12 September 2019Alchemy and Adventure: A history of exotic colours and poisonous pigmentsLecture
04 July 2019VISIT to Kelmscott Manor and Buscot ParkVisit
13 June 2019Rembrandt: 350th anniversary of his deathLecture
09 May 2019White Gold – The Splendours of Meissen 18th -19th Century PorcelainLecture
02 May 2019Visit to the Higgins Bedford GalleryVisit
11 April 2019AGM, then The Queen of Instruments: The Lute within the Old MastersLecture
21 March 2019Visit to The Queen’s Gallery (Buckingham Palace)Visit
14 March 2019The Art and Science of the Lunar SocietLecture
14 February 2019Silk Along the Silk RoadLecture
10 January 2019The Mystery of Holbein’s AmbassadorsLecture
13 December 2018Arabia Felix – secret treasure chest of Yemen and OmanLecture
08 November 2018Lest we forget: Lutyens, Baker and the memorials of the Great WarLecture
01 November 2018So you think you know about Impressionism?Special Event
18 October 2018Woburn Abbey, BedfordshireVisit
11 October 2018Designing the dining room from the Middle Ages to the present dayLecture
13 September 2018A child of six could do it!’ Cartoonists and modern artLecture
28 June 2018Visit to Longford CastleVisit
14 June 2018Three great families and their gardens: a history of the Astors, the Rothschilds and the Sackville WestsLecture
10 May 2018Tchaikovsky, Chekov and LevitanLecture
19 April 2018Sheldonian Theatre, OxfordVisit
12 April 2018AGM then Gypsies, tramps and thieves: the representation of the working classes in artLecture
15 March 2018Gustav Klimt and the Vienna Secession 1890-1918Special Event
08 March 2018Isabella d’Este: first lady of the RenaissanceLecture
08 February 2018The art of the classic French paperweight 1840-1860Lecture
11 January 2018Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: the Golden Age of Mexican paintingLecture
14 December 2017Urbino’: The One-eyed Duke’s RenaissanceLecture
07 December 2017Waddeson at ChristmasVisit
09 November 2017Children’s Book IllustrationLecture
02 November 2017The Art Treasures of ParisSpecial Event
19 October 2017The Dulwich Picture GalleryVisit
12 October 2017Rembrandt, Vermeer and Frans Hals – ‘Art in the Garden of GodLecture
14 September 2017Eric Ravilious and the English LandscapeLecture
17 June 2017Westminster Abbey Historical/Musical TourVisit
15 June 2017Modern Italian Gardens: La MortellaLecture
11 May 2017Man Ray the Magic ManLecture
24 April 2017Spencer HouseVisit
13 April 2017AGM, then Beside the seaside: the architecture of British coastal resortsLecture
30 March 2017History of the British TheatreSpecial Event
09 March 201750th Anniversary ‘The Lure of Italy’ Option B with Jeremy Limb on pianoLecture
09 February 2017Rescuing Zeugma from the floodwaters of the EuphratesLecture
12 January 2017Passions, Personalities and Patronage: Chatsworth and the Story of the Devonshire Family’s Collections – 1549 to the presentLecture
08 December 2016ST NICHOLAS OF MYRA AND SANTA CLAUS: a case of mistaken identityLecture
25 November 2016The Art of Collecting Art - Study Day 3 - NADFAS Chiltern Hills AreaSpecial Event
10 November 2016THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF MISIA SERT:Lecture
03 November 2016The Post-Impressionist Rebellion: Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, and van GoghSpecial Event
20 October 2016GEFFRYE MUSEUMVisit
17 October 2016The Art of Collecting Art - Study Day 2 - NADFAS Chiltern Hills AreaSpecial Event
13 October 2016THE FAR EASTERN AND ORIENT EXPRESSLecture
20 September 2016The Art of Collecting Art - Study Day 1 - NADFAS Chiltern Hills AreaSpecial Event
08 September 2016COFFEE WITH THE WITTGENSTEINSLecture
16 June 2016HAMPTON COURTVisit
09 June 2016EDWARD SEAGO: from the circus to SandringhamLecture
12 May 2016ROMANCE, REALISM AND REVOLUTION (1700 – 1800)Lecture
28 April 2016ARUNDEL CASTLEVisit
14 April 2016WILLIAM POWELL FRITH: painter of the crowdLecture
17 March 2016The Grand Tour and the Influence of Italy on English gardensSpecial Event
10 March 2016PLUTOCRATS ON VACATION: holiday homes of the American rich (1870 - 1940)Lecture
11 February 2016FABER AND FABER: its designs and historyLecture
26 January 2016Area Study Day - Portrait, Landscape, Still Life: Major Genres in European Art History Special Event
14 January 2016‘THESE STOLEN GLANCES’: Elizabethan miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac OliverLecture