London Bridged : 3,500 years of Crossing the Thames by Charlie Forman – Thursday 5 September 2024
London Bridged: 3,500 years of Crossing the Thames by Charlie Forman. Lecturer and London Walking Guide Charlie Forman gave us[…]
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Now you see us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 by Amy Lim – Thursday 6th June 2024
Curator, lecturer and author Dr Amy Lim gave us a most enlightening lecture on the uphill struggle that women faced[…]
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Visit to Waddesdon Manor Aylesbury, Bucks – Wednesday 12th June 2024
Forty one members of the Society enjoyed an outing to Waddesdon Manor in Aylesbury, the family seat of the English[…]
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Visit to Quebec House and Titsey Place – Wednesday 15th May 2024
Our outing to Quebec House and Titsey Place happened to fall on an unexpectedly sunny day. Twenty six members of[…]
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Grace Darling and the Fine Art of Saving Lives at Sea by James Taylor – Thursday 2nd May 2024
There will be few who have not seen Thomas Brooke’s famous picture of RNLI’s poster girl, Grace Darling. Former curator[…]
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Wealth Adornment Art: A Study of Jewellery in 17th-19th Century England by Amanda Herries – Thursday 4th April 2024
Former curator of the Museum of London specialising in the decorative arts, Amanda Herries started her lecture by showing us[…]
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Art Down Under: From the Convict Years to the Modern World by Val Woodgate – Wednesday 20th March 2024
Val Woodgate gave us a most interesting and comprehensive overview of the development of Art in Australia from the European[…]
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The World’s Greatest Paintings: 200 Hundred years of the National Gallery by Simon Whitehouse -Thursday 7th March 2024
Presenter, lecturer and guide Simon described how due to the growing interest in having national art collections (France opened the[…]
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The Art Of Trickery: How Magicians are seen in Paintings, Prints and Cartoons by Ian Keable
Our February lecture, ‘The Art of Trickery,’ was given by Ian Keable a former accountant now a magician. Two of[…]
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Monopoly by Roger Mendham – Thursday 4th January 2024
Almost everyone has played Monopoly at sometime or other in their life as it is such a popular and well[…]
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Shepard’s Christmas by James Campbell – Thursday 7th December 2023
Ernest H Shepard was an artist, illustrator and cartoonist whose illustrations to A. A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh” and Kenneth[…]
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Review of ‘Wilde About Oscar’ – Tuesday 21st November 2023 a Virtual Tour by Simon Whitehouse
For the first Virtual Tour of the season, we were taken by our excellent guide, Simon Whitehouse, on a journey[…]
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The Culture of Ukraine with Rosamund Bartlett – Thursday 2nd November 2023
Despite Storm Ciaran, Rosamund Bartlett braved the weather and disrupted travel conditions to travel from Oxford to Grayshott Village Hall[…]
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“Creating an Imaginary World – Theatre Design From Temple to Playhouse, Into the Picture Frame and Out Again” with Bertie Pearce – Thursday 5th October 2023
We were able to welcome back Bertie Pearce, but this time not on Zoom, and once again he kept the[…]
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Monochrome to Polychrome – How colour transformed the Art of Garden design
On Tuesday 17th October the Arts Society Grayshott was pleased to welcome Timothy Walker, retired director of the Oxford Botanical[…]
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The History Of Opera
Jamie Hayes started his most interesting lecture on the History of Opera by quoting W.H. Auden ‘No good opera plot can[…]
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Visit to Hever Castle – Tuesday 13 June 2023
Hever Castle, as we see it today, is a glorious pastiche, one very rich American’s idea of an English baronial[…]
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Selfies, Self – Expression, Celebrity and Victorian Carte De Visite by Mark Hill – Thursday 1st June 2023
Author, lecturer and “Antiques Roadshow” expert Mark Hill gave an enthusiastic and riveting talk on his abiding interest and hobby[…]
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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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The Colossal Art & Architecture of Egypt’s Boldest Pharaoh by Lucia Gahlin – Lecture – 4th May 2023
For our May lecture we were transported to Ancient Egypt by Egyptologist Lucia Gahlin who gave a fascinating talk about[…]
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