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A personal look at the twelfth-century ivory Lewis Chessmen, which have bewitched the speaker in the British Museum for some fifty-five years, and the adventures to which they have led him: bilingual books, films, explorations, adventures, replicas and even H. Potter and his peer group.   Lecturer: Irving Finkel. Irving is a British philologist and Assyriologist. He is…

Early in the French revolution, adventurous English women writers visited Paris. Some stayed there; Mary Wollstonecraft was there for the execution of Louis XV1, Grace Dalrymple Elliott and Fanny Burney participated and observed. A deeply researched lecture on some fascinating women. Lecturer: Karin Fernald Karin is known for her lectures on personalities from the eighteenth and…

This lecture opens with Van Dyck’s work in the princely courts of Europe and then moves to the brilliant court of Charles I and his portraits of court members.   Lecturer: Duncan Ferguson Duncan has had a career in teaching beginning in Devon and ending his career after 25 years in Staffordshire schools. He volunteers…