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06 October 2026Around The World in Stunning Aviation Posters
07 July 2026The Last Supper in Pompei
05 May 2026The Mosaics of Ravenna: For the Glory of Kings, Emperors and Empresses
03 February 2026The England of Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
03 February 2026The England of Eric Ravilious (1903–1942)
07 October 2025The Dramatic Art of the London Underground
02 September 2025The Nation's Mantelpiece: A History of the National Gallery in Ten Paintings
01 July 2025The ‘Golden Age’ of British Comedy
03 June 2025Please note a change to the advertised lecture. Due to ill health Simon Inglis is no longer able to deliver his lecture 'Great Lengths'. Barry Venning will speak about Giles: His Life, Times and Cartoons
06 May 2025Dale Chihuly and the American Art Glass Movement
01 April 2025Lee Miller's War
04 March 2025Charles I King and Collector
04 February 2025Hogarth: A Harlot, a Rake and a Marriage
03 December 2024A Dickens of a Christmas and Bless Us Everyone
05 November 2024The Sun King and the Court of Versailles
01 October 2024The Car in Art and The Car as Art
03 September 2024Gustav Holst: 'The Planets and Beyond'
02 July 2024Top 20 Most Popular Artworks in Britain Today
04 June 2024Discovering MacDonald Gill: Architect, Artist and Mapmaker
07 May 2024Women Artists in Britain
02 April 2024'Wild Men of the North': Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven
05 March 2024Monopoly: A Game We Know So Well, or Do We?
06 February 2024A Life Among Plants: Where Art and Science Meet on Equal Terms
05 December 2023Shepard's Christmas
07 November 2023Design Inspirations - Spanish Designer Mariano Fortuny
03 October 2023A Photographic Odyssey - Shackleton's Endurance Expedition
05 September 2023Berthe Morisot: 'Une Finesse Fragonardienne'
04 July 2023Creating the Golden Era of Transatlantic Liners
06 June 2023Vetting the Art Market
02 May 2023The Mayan Civilisation of Central America
04 April 2023Stamford Raffles: Art Collector, Founder of Modern Singapore and more
07 March 2023Bath: The Story of a City
07 February 2023The Architecture of the Bodleian Library Complex, Oxford
06 December 2022Master of Suspense: Alfred Hitchcock
01 November 2022Faber and Faber - 90 Years of Excellence in Book Cover Design
04 October 2022Writers and Relics - 'Literary Tourism' in the UK
06 September 2022Mad Men and the Artists, How Advertising has Exploited Fine Art
07 June 2022Sea Change - Art in St Ives 1914-1949
03 May 2022Bhutan: The Kingdom of The Thunder Dragon
05 April 2022How to Look at Art
01 March 2022How Napier became 'The Art Deco Capital of the World'
01 February 2022Betty Joel - Glamour and Innovation in 1930s Interior Design
04 January 2022Joaquin Sorolla 'The Master of Light' Comes Back to London
07 December 2021In The Kingdom of the Sweets
02 November 2021Rossetti's Women
05 October 2021A Brief Story of Wine
07 September 2021As Good as Gold
01 June 2021'The Art of Partying': A Feast for the Eyes
04 May 2021The Art of Dürer: The Man and his World
06 April 2021Looking for Georgia
02 March 2021The Housekeeper's Tale (Sarah Wells of Uppark)
19 February 2021Walking Reformation London
02 February 2021Treasures of the Fan Museum
05 January 2021From Biscuits to Blouses: Garibaldi and the British
01 December 2020Is Christmas in Good Taste?
03 November 2020The Genius of Handel
06 October 2020The English Country Church: The Tudors to the Present Day
01 September 2020Mottisfont’s Angel: Maud Russell and the Russian Artist Boris Anrep
02 June 2020Toulouse Lautrec: the Golden Age of Cabaret
05 May 2020Indians, Buffalos and Storms: American West in 19th century Art
07 April 2020Bhutan: the Kingdom of the Thunder Dragon
03 March 2020Corridors of Time: Travellers through Provence & Burgundy
04 February 2020Murder, Sex & Mayhem in English Churches
07 January 2020The History of the English Garden
03 December 2019Jewellery of the Renaissance
05 November 2019Wessex Explored - Thomas Hardy's World
01 October 2019Petra and the Nabateans
03 September 2019The Hapsburg Family: Masters of the Catholic Whore
04 June 2019Food and Art through the Ages
07 May 2019Fakes and forgeries: the art of deception
02 April 2019The Gilded Age: John Singer Sargent, Louis Comfort Tiffany and Stanford White
05 March 2019Architectural superstar Zaha Hadid
05 February 2019The Glasgow Boys, The Scottish Colourists and the French connection
08 January 2019"That Woman" or "The Duchess of Style"? Time to reassess Wallis Simpson
04 December 2018The Collections of Napoleon and Josephine at Chateau de Malmaison
06 November 2018Gloriana - the portraits and images of Queen Elizabeth I
02 October 2018Colonial Architecture and Building Conservation in India
04 September 2018The English Country Church
05 June 2018Benjamin Britten 1913-1976 - a Life in Music
01 May 2018Mexico: Aztecs, Mayas and Conquistadors
03 April 2018The Founders and Treasures of the Wallace Collection
06 March 2018Constable: the Great Landscapes
06 February 2018The most infamous Family in History: the Borgias
02 January 2018A Journey through 3000 years of China's Civilisation
05 December 2017In the Bleak Midwinter: Artists' Responses to Snow
07 November 2017William Moorcroft and his legacy
03 October 2017Whitefriars Glass: a leading London Glass House 1834-1980
05 September 2017Pevsner in Hampshire
06 June 2017Punch & Judy
02 May 2017Cook to Gaugin
04 April 2017The Interwar Garden - Grand Manner to Henry Moore

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