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On Wednesday 12th March the society enjoyed three outstanding lectures from Antonia Gatward Cevizli. The breaching of the city walls[…]

By the mid 19th Century, Britain was the largest economic power in the world and at the forefront of industrial[…]

Dr Lydia Goodson, art historian and lecturer specializing in material culture in Renaissance Italy gave us a delightful talk about[…]

For our first lecture of 2025, which is also the 40th Anniversary year  of  the founding of the Arts Society[…]

Author, lecturer and London Blue Badge guide Vicky Bailey gave a lively lecture describing how Christmas used to be just[…]

How do we look at paintings? Nowadays most of us gaze upon Old Masters in Museums and Art Galleries. We[…]

London Bridged: 3,500 years of Crossing the Thames by Charlie Forman. Lecturer and London Walking Guide Charlie Forman gave us[…]

Forty one members of the Society enjoyed an outing to Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury,  the family seat of the  English[…]

Our outing to Quebec House and Titsey Place happened to fall on an unexpectedly sunny day. Twenty six members of[…]

There will be few who have not seen Thomas Brooke’s famous picture of RNLI’s poster girl, Grace Darling. Former curator[…]

Former curator of the Museum of London specialising in the decorative arts, Amanda Herries started her lecture by showing us[…]

Val Woodgate gave us a most interesting and comprehensive overview of the development of Art in Australia from the European[…]

Presenter, lecturer and guide Simon described how due to the growing interest in having national art collections (France opened the[…]