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Dame Laure Knight
From Newlyn to Nureemburg
(13th May 2025)
Bernard Allan
Double Dutch symbols, emblems, double-entendre in Dutch genre paintings.
(8th April 2025)
Lynne Gibson
The Field of Cloth of Gold: 6000 Englishmen in France for 18 days - How did they do it?
(11th March 2025)
Joanna Mabbutt
A brief story of wine
(11th February 2025)
David Wright
Michael Harris: Mdina Glass and Isle of Wight Studio Glass
(14th January 2025)
Mark Hill
Christmas with Giles, Grandma and the family
(10th December 2024)
Barry Venning
The statue of Grandma in Ipswich which was unveiled in 1993
The culture of Ukraine
(8th October 2024)
Rosamund Bartlett
The Taj Mahal: A Garden Tomb
(10th September 2024)
Professor James Allan
An Englishman in New York - The Art of Lord Duveen
(11th June 2024)
Mark Meredith
What have the Huguenots ever done for us?
(14th May 2024)
Vivian Lawes
A bit of a Carry On
(9th April 2024)
Tyler Butterworth
The Art and Culture of fin-de-siecle Vienna
(12th March 2024)
Gavin Plumley
The men who made Menswear
(13th February 2024)
Russell Nash
From Tchaikovsky to Tin Pan Alley
Uplifting music for Christmas
(12th December 2023)
Sandy Burnett
The Extraordinary Life of Misia Sert; Muse to Ronoir, Toulouse-Lautrec, Bonnard, Vuillard: patron of the Ballet Russes, concert pianist and fashion icon.
(14th November 2023)
Julian Halsby
From Errol Flynn to Bottles of gin;
Literary Portraits and their Afterlives
(12th September 2023)
Annalie Talent
The Subtle Science & The Exact Art of English Garden Design.
Why Gardening can rank as Fine Art
(13th June 2023)
Timothy Walker
The Romance of the Letterbox
(9th May 2023)
Tony Cross
David Hockney - The Old Master.
(11th April 2023)
Douglas Skeggs
Simon de Montfort at home and at war – Odiham Castle.
(14th February 2023)
Rupert Willoughby
Betty Joel; Glamour and Innovation in 1930's design
(10th January 2023)
Clive Stewart-Lockhart
Art in the City - Coventry Cathedral
(8th November 2022)
Alexandre Epps
Double Dutch - Still Life Paintings
The Secret Language of Dutch Still Life.
(11th October 2022)
English Caricature from Hogarth to Punch
​(13th September 2022)
By Andrew Davies
How to read the English Country Church
(14th June 2022)
Presented br Dr Rev Nichols Henderson
Visit to Bologna
(May 2022)
Architecture and Photography = Art
(10th May 2022)
Presented by Brian Stater
Dowager Empress Cixi
(12th April 2022)
Presented by David Rosier
Treasures of the Black Tent
(8th March 2022)
Presented by Brian MacDonnald
Boulevards and Balconies
(11th February 2022)
Presented by Jacqueline Cockburn
Packing up the Nation
(11th January 2022)
Presented by Caroline Shenton
Elizabeth to Elizabeth
(14th December 2021)
Presented by Valerie Woodgate
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The Borgias - The most infamous family in history.
(9th November 2021)
Presented by Sarah Dunant
The Representation of Women in Western Art - Special Interest Day
(28th October 2021)
Presented by Linda Smith
Centuries of Childhood: Portraits of Children from Holbein to Freud
(12th October 2021)
Presented by Dr Amy Orrock
The Lute and Old Master Paintings
(14th September 2021)
Presented by Adam Bisiakiewicz
Oscar Wilde - Up Close (8th June 2021)
Presented by Giles Ramsay
Passionate Potters (11th May 2021)
Presented by Julian Richards
Painting the Land of the Midnight sun.
Romantic visions of Norway. (13th April 2021)
Presented by Stella Grace Lyons
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