2023

Jan 17 Visit Visit to the National Gallery
Jan 24 Visit Evening visit to the ING Barings Bank Art Collection #1
Feb 7 Lecture The Beauty and History of Frames
Feb 14 Study morning Archaeology – Travels with a Trowel
Feb 15 Visit Royal School of Needlework and the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace #1
March 7 Lecture The Flowering of the British Renaissance
March 16 Visit Royal School of Needlework and the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace #2
March 23 Visit Evening visit to the ING Barings Bank Art Collection #2 
April 4 Lecture Royal Jewels and the American Heiress
April 20 Visit A Visit to Blenheim Palace
May 2 Lecture The Birth, Growth and Influence of London’s Greatest Auction Houses. This is a “Bring Friends Free” lecture.
May 9 Visit Glorious Greenwich 
May 31 Study morning Italian Baroque Sculptors, Bernini and Canova 
June 6 Lecture The History and Mystery of Crypto-portraits in Western Art
June 21 Visit A walk to view beautiful stained glass windows in City churches
July 4 Lecture Around the World in Stunning Aviation Posters
July 12 Visit Kings Cross and St Pancras
Aug 1 Lecture Pioneering Potteries of the South West
Aug 8 Visit Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham
Sept 5 Lecture Vivaldi in Venice. This is a “Bring Friends Free” lecture.
Sept 14 Visit The Clocks Collection at the British Museum
Oct 3 Lecture Mediterranean Archipelago: Exploring Malta in the UK’s Public Art Collection
Oct 12 Visit Ranger’s House and the Fan Museum in Greenwich
Oct 26 Study morning Revised date for the study morning on Rare and Exquisite Vessels for Perfume
Nov 7 Lecture This lecture is being rearranged due to illness
Nov 29 Visit The Neasden Hindu Temple
Dec 5 Lecture Charles Dickens, the Great Performer
Dec 15 Visit The National Portrait Gallery

2024

   
Jan Lecture There is no lecture in January
Feb 6 Lecture An Easy Day for a Lady: Women Mountaineers
Feb 14 Study morning An Introduction to, and New Advances in, Ice Age Art
March 5 Lecture Everywhere the Glint of Gold: the Discovery of a Pharoah’s Tomb
April 2 Lecture American Impressionism in the Garden
May 7 Lecture Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Passion of Musical Theatre. This is a “Bring Friends Free” lecture.
May 29 Study morning The Goeblin and Mortlake Tapestries and How They Were Made
June 4 Lecture The Triumph of Lutyens – New Delhi
July 2 Lecture Imperial Chinese Court Arts and Portraiture – Emperors, Ancestors and Jesuits
Aug 6 Lecture Fiction Fallacy and Fake News: Spin and Propaganda Through the Ages

More dates will be added when they have been confirmed.

2022 events