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September 2025
Monday 8th September: Matisse in Moscow, icons and the avant-garde.
In October 1911, Henri Matisse travelled to Russia to stay ...
July 2025
Monday 14th July: Courage calls to courage everywhere, how have jewels played their part in politics and history?
Brooches, badges, chains and rings can all be used to ...
June 2025
Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter – A National Treasure
Called a ‘national treasure’ by English Heritage, Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter ...
May 2025
The New Yorker Magazine and its Cartoonists
Since it was founded in 1925, the New Yorker magazine ...
April 2025
Two Snakes and a Pretty Frock
Fascinating lecture on Minoan Art in ancient Crete
Lecturer Mike Clegg
Image ...
March 2025
The Kennedy White House – the Art, Architecture and Gardens of Camelot
This talk is about the White House’s most celebrated twentieth ...
February 2025
The Twentieth Century English Garden
The English garden of the early years of the C20th ...
January 2025
How Symphonies were Born in a London Pub
Today we talk of “symphony concerts” and “symphony orchestras”, but ...
November 2024
Burned, Bombed or Bulldozed – Britain’s Lost Houses
There is something incomparably romantic about a long-lost country house, ...
The Roaring Twenties: Art, Design and High Society
Like its name, the Roaring Twenties was a loud and ...
October 2024
Serious Moonlight: the Art and Times of the Neo Romantics
Moons are in, half moons are really selling! Thus said ...
September 2024
Portraits of the Maharanis
The Maharajahs and Maharanis of India were semi-independent rulers, responsible ...
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