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09 June 2026Roughan Guided WalkVisit
02 June 2026OIL & OLD MASTERS: GULBENKIAN - COLLECTOR & OIL TITAN Lecture
05 May 2026FINN JUHL: THE FALL & RISE OF DENMARK’S GREATEST DESIGNERLecture
21 April 2026Blickling HallVisit
07 April 2026BALENCIAGA, DIOR & FATH: HAUTE COUTURE’S HOLY TRINITYLecture
03 March 2026AROUND THE WORLD IN 60 MINUTES Lecture
17 February 2026Diamonds are not just a girls Best FriendSpecial Event
03 February 2026THE BEATLES: HERE, THERE & EVERYWHERE  Lecture
06 January 2026TULIPS AND HYACINTHS ... THE STORT OF IZNIK CERAMICSLecture
02 December 2025THE MAYAN CIVILISATION OF CENTRAL AMERICA Lecture
16 November 2025VISIT WEST STOW HALL, 16th November at 2 pmVisit
06 November 2025VISIT WEST STOW HALL 6th November 2025 at 2 pmVisit
04 November 2025The Age of JazzLecture
07 October 2025The Value of ArtLecture
02 September 2025The Gainsborough House at SudburyLecture
03 June 2025Indians Buffalo & Storm: The American West in 19th Century ArtLecture
06 May 2025The Two Gustavs - Mahler & KlimtLecture
01 April 2025Les Trois Grandes Dames of ImpressionismLecture
27 March 2025Guided Tours of St John's and Queen's College Cambridge Visit
04 March 2025The Art of the CartoonistLecture
18 February 2025Studies in Glass and Ceramics 1950-1970Special Event
04 February 2025Niven from Extra to InstitutionLecture
07 January 2025How to Understand Buddhist ArtLecture
03 December 2024‘In Spite of Bombs and Broken Windows’: Queen Elizabeth and the Arts in WartimeLecture
05 November 2024Debo Mitford 1920 to 2014Lecture
01 October 2024Sickert & the Camden Town MurderLecture
04 June 2024Miniature Portraits: Tiny Treasures Close to our Hearts Lecture
22 May 2024Island Hall, GodmanchesterVisit
07 May 2024Fashion Fury Feminism: Women Fight for ChangeLecture
02 April 2024Is this real life? Lecture
05 March 2024Van Gogh: 444 days in Provence Lecture
20 February 2024Behind the Scenes at the Antiques Roadshow and its Great DiscoveriesSpecial Event
20 February 2024SPECIAL INTEREST DAY: Behind the Scenes at the Antiques Roadshow and its Great DiscoveriesLecture
06 February 2024Music in Art Lecture
09 January 2024A History of Art Criticism from Aristotle to FacebookLecture
05 December 2023Messenger or Missile – Glad tidings, gloom or perdition?Lecture
07 November 2023The Art of Modern DanceLecture
03 October 2023Birmingham – More canals than VeniceLecture
26 September 2023Visit to EUSTON HALL AND GARDENSVisit
05 September 2023The Power and the Glory of Country Houses, their evolution and changing rolesLecture
28 June 2023Outing to Audley End House and GardensVisit
06 June 2023Historic textiles - Kumihimo, the gentle art of Japanese braid makingLecture
02 May 2023Peggy GuggenheimLecture
04 April 2023How to look at art and the strategy of interpretationLecture
07 March 2023The muddy archaeologist - Roman Britain unearthed. What did the Romans really do for art?Lecture
07 February 2023Frida Kalho – A life in artLecture
03 January 2023Garden design in relation to art - The subtle science and exact art of colour in English garden design - Why gardening can rank as fine art.Lecture
06 December 2022Fake or Fortune - Have I discovered a Constable in my attic?Lecture
08 November 2022The Gainsborough House at SudburyVisit
01 November 2022Wonderful Copenhagen: The story of four magnificent royal palaces in the kingdom of DenmarkLecture
04 October 2022Art of Illustration in Japan - Emaki picture scrolls: The origin of mangaLecture
07 June 2022Architecture + Photography = ArtLecture
24 May 2022Visit to the Fan Museum and Queen Anne's HouseVisit
03 May 2022Weaving Cultures of the Americas - The Continuous ThreadLecture
05 April 2022Master MasonsLecture
01 March 2022Sorolla - Master of LightLecture
15 February 2022The Mayan CivilisationSpecial Event
01 February 2022 Great Lengths: The Art and Architecture of Historic Swimming Pools and LidosLecture
04 January 2022Public Art – Should Every Square Have One?Lecture
07 December 2021Painted Pleats: A History of European Fan-makingLecture
07 December 2021Painted Pleats: An history of European Fan-makingLecture
30 November 2021Visit to the Guildhall, Bury St EdmundsVisit
02 November 2021A Design Revolution – Jewellery & Metalwork 1855-1940Lecture
02 November 2021A Design Revolution: Jewellry & Metalwork 1855-1940Lecture
12 October 2021Visit to Bletchley Park (Postponed from February 2021)Visit
05 October 2021Artists’ Illness and CreativityLecture
14 June 2021A virtual walking tour of VeniceVisit
01 June 2021Great Railway StationsLecture
06 May 2021Day 3 of 3 Special Interest talks on IndiaSpecial Event
06 May 2021Special Interest Day - Talk 3 of 3Lecture
05 May 2021Day 2 of 3 Special Interest talks on IndiaSpecial Event
05 May 2021Special Interest Day - Talk 2 of 3Lecture
04 May 2021Day 1 of 3 Special Interest talks on IndiaSpecial Event
04 May 2021Special Interest Day - Talk 1 of 3Lecture
06 April 2021Ice Age ArtLecture
02 March 2021A Brief Story of WineLecture
15 February 2021Bletchley Park Visit - rescheduledVisit
12 February 2021Chinese Imperial Court CostumeLecture
10 February 2021The Imperial WardrobeSpecial Event
02 February 2021The Benin BronzesLecture
26 January 2021Theatrical London - virtual talkSpecial Event
26 January 2021Virtual Guided Walking Tour of London's TheatrelandLecture
05 January 2021Food in ArtLecture
01 December 2020Red, in Russian ArtLecture
03 November 2020Les ParisiennesLecture
06 October 2020Cracking GlassLecture
02 June 2020The Master Masons - postponedLecture
19 May 2020Greenwich Trip - postponedVisit
05 May 2020Photography + Architecture = Art - postponedLecture
07 April 2020Musical Adventures in Russia; in search of the Snow-Maiden - postponedLecture
03 March 2020The man with the pitchfork - iconic paintings from 20th century AmericaLecture
12 February 2020West Suffolk - February 12th, 2020 Special Interest DaySpecial Event
04 February 2020The studio houses of the Holland Park CircleLecture
07 January 2020The Artist as Engineer of the soul: Russian RealismLecture
04 December 2019Opera Rigoletto at Norwich Theatre RoyalVisit
03 December 2019History of AuctionsLecture
28 November 2019Cinderella Ballet at Norwich Theatre RoyalVisit
05 November 2019Salvadore Dali: 20th Century Renaissance ArtistLecture
01 October 2019The Empty Chair - how artists depict what is missingLecture
13 June 2019Boughton House, KetteringVisit
04 June 2019Treasures of the TurfLecture
07 May 2019Foundations of Fashion from 18th to 20th CenturyLecture
02 April 2019The Day Parliament Burned DownLecture
21 March 2019Form and Fortune: fifty years of British Sculpture.Special Event
05 March 2019Lee Miller witnessing Women at WarLecture
05 February 2019The Destruction of the MonastriesLecture
08 January 2019Ancient Egyptian Treasures in the Fitzwilliam, CambridgeLecture
04 December 2018The Ox and the AssLecture
13 November 2018Opera and Ballet in November 2018Visit
06 November 2018O Yes It Is! - a history of PantoLecture
27 October 2018Glyndebourne TourVisit
02 October 2018“Priams Treasure – The Gold from Troy”Lecture
29 July 2018The Arts Society - East Anglia - Golden Anniversary CelebrationVisit
12 June 2018SOMERLEYTON HALL AND GARDENS Visit
05 June 2018“Giles, his Life & Cartoons”Lecture
01 May 2018“The Wallace Collection's Rembrandts, from twelve to one but now Three & Two Halves”Lecture
03 April 2018“The Normans – Conquest & Legacy”Lecture
06 March 2018“Surviving Opera”Lecture
21 February 2018Newmarket National Heritage CentreVisit
06 February 2018“Charles Dickens – the man and his life through his characters”Lecture
02 January 2018“Posters of the Bell Epoque – the Great Age of the Poster”Lecture
05 December 2017“A Cake History – the development of edible frivolity”Lecture
07 November 2017“Vlad the Impaler & the Legend of Dracula”Lecture
03 October 2017“The Borgias – the most imfamous family in history”Lecture
28 September 2017Norwich Theatre to see Ballet and OperaVisit
05 September 2017The History of The Square Mile Lecture
04 July 2017Leeds Castle & Chatham DockyardVisit
06 June 2017A Riviera OdysseyLecture
16 May 2017Harley Gallery,Welbeck and the Portland CollectionVisit
02 May 2017Leonardo the Scientist” - Anatomical illustrations were rare and essentially useless prior to Leonardo, this Lecture shows how his drawings bring together his skills as a scientist artist and engineer.Lecture
04 April 2017Tapestries: The ultimate wall decoration” - Tapestries of the courts of Europe, ancient and modernLecture
28 March 2017The Dulwich picture Gallery & The Horniman Museum & GardensVisit
07 March 2017Children’s book illustrations” - A colourful and nostalgic Lecture examining how the interaction of image and narrative creates such powerful memoriesLecture
07 February 2017Winston Churchill – the ArtistLecture
03 January 2017Is it worth it? – Fakes, forgeries, fashion at the art marketLecture
06 December 2016Brilliant humour in the forgotten art of the picture postcard 1909 – 1939Lecture
23 November 2016Glyndebourne on Tour, Puccini’s ‘Madam Butterfly’Visit
17 November 2016How To Look After Your Antique Furniture Special Event
17 November 2016How to look after your Antique Furniture Lecture
01 November 2016The ups and downs in the lives of the Impressionists along the section of the Seine which has been termed “The Cradle of ImpressionismLecture
27 October 2016Northern Ballet Company’s ‘Beauty and the Beast’Visit
04 October 2016The Art of the Great Parisian Fine Jewellery Houses – Joanna Hardy goes“behind the scenesLecture
05 July 2016Talk,Walk and Tea at Euston HallSpecial Event
07 June 2016NOT JUST SMOKE AND MIRRORS – CAMOUFLAGE IN WARTIMELecture
03 May 2016The History of the HarpLecture
20 April 2016BLENHEIM PALACEVisit
05 April 2016SALISBURY CATHEDRAL – THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF A MASTERPIECELecture
17 March 2016ENGLISH PERIOD STYLE 1660 – 1900Special Event
08 March 2016BIRMINGHAM: Tour of Jewellery Centre & visit to Museum of ArtVisit
01 March 2016SECRET ART IN THE PASSPORTLecture
02 February 2016THE ART OF DRAWING – British Masters and MethodsLecture
05 January 2016Emile Galle & Rene LaliqueLecture
01 December 2015WONDER WORKERS AND THE ART OF ILLUSIONLecture
26 November 2015NORTHERN BALLET COMPANY - Tchaikovsky's The NutcrackerVisit
19 November 2015PAINTING INSPIRED BY MUSIC AND MUSIC INSPIRED BY PAINTINGSpecial Event
17 November 2015GLYNDEBOURNE ON TOUR - Donizetti's Don PasqualeVisit
03 November 2015AN HEIRLOOM TO BE CARRIED DOWNLecture
06 October 2015FABER & FABER – ITS DESIGN AND HISTORYLecture