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January 2023
Riches to Rags: Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields
Welcomed at first with open arms and bringing luxury skills, the Huguenots’ fortunes fluctuated wildly. ...
November 2022
Venice of Bellini and Carpaccio
Paula Nuttall will be leading our Study Day in November ...
A Gardener Like No Other: Edward James and Las Pozas
In the depths of the Mexican jungle lies an enchanted valley in which strange ruins tower over waterfalls and pools. It seems like the remains of a lost civilisation, but... ...
October 2022
Richest of Legacies: British Colonial Architecture of India
This lecture considers the magnificent George Gilbert Scott designed university buildings in Mumbai (Bombay), India. ...
September 2022
Music in Art
So many of our historical references for musical instruments can be found in works of art. ...
July 2022
A coach visit to Belvoir Castle
Belvoir Castle is a historic castle and stately home in ...
Paradise Regained: the life and art of Samuel Palmer
The early watercolours and ink drawings of Samuel Palmer evoke a rural idyll, a vision of a secure village life seemingly far removed from the harsh realities of modern industrial Britain. However, ...
June 2022
A visit to Hatton Grange
Built in 1764 for Plowden Stanley by architect Thomas Farnolls ...
Great Cities of Central Asia
Lecturer: Sue Rollin
In Transoxiana, at the hub of the Great ...
May 2022
Holbein Study Day
This study will be led by an old friend of ...
Dorset Tour
We are visiting Tyntesfield, John Makepeace Furniture Workshop, Mapperton House ...
Lady Anne Clifford: a Seventeenth Century Landowner
She was the only child of the Earl of Cumberland, whose vast estates in Yorkshire and Cumbria were left at his early death to her uncle, not to her, starting a long legal battle. ...
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