Visit to the V & A Museum and the Donatello Exhibition on 27 April
What a pleasure it was to be back at the V. & A. again; whilst a few of our members[…]
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What a pleasure it was to be back at the V. & A. again; whilst a few of our members[…]
Read moreWe will have timed tickets during the morning to the Exhibition, ‘Donatello: Sculpting the Renaissance’, being transferred directly from the[…]
Read moreThe first Virtual Tour of the season was both fascinating and extremely moving. Lecturer and Blue Badge Guide Ruth Polling[…]
Read moreWe will again be holding our Christmas lunch in the elegant 4 star Frensham Pond Hotel, overlooking the lovely Great[…]
Read moreLying at the Eastern foot of fabled Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden is acclaimed as the most beautiful garden[…]
Read moreLocal guide Claudia Muchitsch will show us highlights of Vienna’s famous Art Nouveau architecture and decoration by Gustav Klimt, Otto[…]
Read moreThe Borghese Gallery houses what is arguably one of the greatest collections of art in the world. In the early[…]
Read moreOn the morning of the 11th November 1920 the funeral of Britain’s Unknown Warrior took place at Westminster Abbey. This[…]
Read moreIn the last few years the top end of the art market has flourished and collectors have been prepared to[…]
Read moreFrom the late 1850s to the mid-1870s a new craze gripped the world. Photography had just begun to be popularised[…]
Read moreAn abstract painter in the 1930’s, John Piper was also a writer, critic and typographer and his love of[…]
Read moreThere were eight studios in Hollywood during its Golden Age and this lecture provides a helpful history from their early, tentative[…]
Read moreRamesses II (c 1279 -1213 BC) is known to many as ‘Ramesses the Great’. He built extraordinary temples throughout Egypt[…]
Read moreWe will discover the very first memsahibs to set foot into India in 1617, and how a fair amount of[…]
Read moreOur Annual Bridge Drive will take place on Wednesday 11th May 2022, play starting promptly at 2.00 p.m. and ending[…]
Read moreBroughton Castle is a moated and fortified manor house, the home of Lord and Lady Saye and Sele, which has[…]
Read morePitzhanger Manor is an English country house (it was the countryside in the early 19C!) famous as the home of[…]
Read moreA Journey through 3,000 years of Chinese Art, History and Civilisation Three Lectures by ANNE HAWORTH 10.00 Coffee 10.30 –[…]
Read moreA walk in Kyoto, the historic old capital of Japan. Founded in 794 as Japan’s capital, Kyoto is home to[…]
Read moreNicholas was the Greek Bishop of Myra, a 4th century port in Anatolia. Following his death, his legendary generosity established[…]
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