Copies, Curtains and Ways of Looking by Chantal Brotherton – Ratcliffe – Thursday November 7 2024
How does our experience of living with and looking at works of art today compare to the viewing experience of ...
Special Interest Day – Monday 25th November 2024 – ‘The Medici ‘Bankrolling the Renaissance’ by Douglas Skeggs
The Medici were in many ways an unattractive family. Ruthless in pursuit of profit for their Florentine bank, greedy for ...
Dingley Dell to ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Vicky Bailey – Thursday December 5 2024
Ideal for Christmas time!This talk ranges from Dickensian Christmas stories to traditional Victorian Christmas activities and the inspiration for ghost ...
Christmas Lunch at Waverley Abbey House – Tuesday 10 December 2024
Once again we will be holding our Christmas lunch at the lovely Waverley Abbey House. Set by the River Wey ...
The History of the Royal Parks by Paul Rabbitts – 9th January 2025
London's royal parks are among its most beautiful and beloved spaces: just as much as the Houses of Parliament, Buckingham ...
The Art of Courtship in Renaissance Italy by Lydia Goodson – 6th February 2025
“I give you this, my beautiful one, as a token of my love” These words featured on a decorated cup ...
Fund Raising Bridge Drive Thursday 27 February 2025 at 1.45pm
Our Annual Bridge Drive will take place on Thursday 27th February 2025, play starting promptly at 1.45 p.m. and ending ...
Britain as Workshop of the World. The Founding of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Anna Warrillow – Thursday March 6 2025
This lecture focuses on the design impact of the Great Exhibition and the need for a 'legacy institution' in the ...
160 Years of the London Underground, Design and Architecture by Mark Ovenden – 3rd April 2025
Even in the 1860s and 70s, the expansion of the Underground created a need to have some cohesion between the ...
Art Deco: Celebrating the Centenary of the 1925 Paris Expo by Pamela Campbell-Johnston – 1st May 2025
In 1925, 16 million visitors witnessed PARIS’S EXPO - The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. What would ...
Michael Harris: Mdina Glass & Isle of Wight Studio Glass by Mark Hill – 5th June 2025
Michael Harris was one of the innovators of the international studio glass movement and transformed 20thC glass and its creation ...
Art and Craft of the Pewterer by Andrew Spira – 4th September 2025
Pewter is a little remembered and little appreciated material but it was once at the heart of daily life all ...
Great and Small: Writers Their Pets and Other Animals by Annalie Talent- 2nd October 2025
"He prayeth best, who loveth best/All things both great and small…" Samuel Taylor Coleridge From Robert Burns’s mouse to Shelley’s skylark; ...
The Influence of Japanese Woodcut on Western Art by Carol Wilhide-Justin – 6th November 2025
When Japan's borders were opened to the West in 1868 there was a huge surge of interest in all things Japanese ...
A Very Ceremonial Christmas by Graham Jones – 4th December 2025
This very light-hearted lecture, looks at the various ceremonial events that take place around Christmas time. Carol services, concerts and ...