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09 June 2026Wilde about Oscar - Famous for Being Famous (and Infamous) Lecture
16 May 2026Northern Spain, the Picos Mountains and the Guggenheim MuseumTour
12 May 2026Mixed Doubles - The Art of Double Portraiture from the Middle Ages to the 20th Century Lecture
14 April 2026Joseph Duveen: Charismatic Crook or the World's Greatest Art Dealer?Lecture
10 March 2026Miraculous Preservation Lecture
10 February 2026Packing up the Nation: Saving London’s Museums and Galleries in the Second World WarLecture
13 January 2026The Golden Road to Samarkand – The Architecture, Art and Textiles of UzbekistanLecture
09 December 2025Hark the Herald: Angels in Art Lecture
11 November 2025Sorolla - The Master of Light Lecture
14 October 2025Temples of SanitationLecture
21 September 2025The Art and History of Hidden Umbria Tour
16 September 2025Exclusive Private Visit to Holkham Hall, North NorfolkVisit
09 September 2025The Queen Mother’s Lifelong Love of Jewellery Lecture
10 June 2025Pevsner in Suffolk Lecture
23 May 2025Private Visit to The Manor, Hemingford Grey, CambridgeshireVisit
13 May 2025How Symphonies Were Born in a London Pub Lecture
08 April 2025The Housekeeper’s Tale: Keeping House for Bloomsbury Lecture
11 March 2025The Art of Weimar Germany 1919-1933 Lecture
11 February 2025Living With History Lecture
14 January 2025Venice and the East Lecture
10 December 2024Perugia: A Lost Renaissance City Lecture
12 November 2024The Architecture of Mughal India: Palace Mosques, Gardens and Mausoleums Lecture
08 October 2024The Dancing Faun: A Personal Story of a MasterpieceLecture
23 September 2024Holland and the Dutch Masters A 6-day Tour Tour
10 September 2024Saints & Sinners: Women in the MauritshuisLecture
11 June 2024Me Too! Women Patrons of Renaissance ItalyLecture
07 June 2024Day Visit to Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury Visit
14 May 2024Tamara de Lempicka: The Epitome of Art Deco PortraitureLecture
03 May 2024Private Morning Visit to Euston Hall near Thetford THIS VISIT IS NOW FULLY BOOKEDVisit
23 April 2024The Historic Houses, Art & Heritage of Warwickshire & Oxfordshire – A 5 day TourTour
09 April 2024Get Out of Jail Free - Buying Your Way into Heaven in Medieval EuropeLecture
12 March 2024The Men Who Made MenswearLecture
13 February 2024Vermeer and the Absent SubjectLecture
09 January 2024An Irrational and Exotick Entertainment: The History of Opera in EnglandLecture
12 December 2023Royal Dukes: The Silver Collections of of the Sons of George IIILecture
14 November 2023Mokuhanga and the Sense of TouchLecture
10 October 2023Cut to Dazzle - The Rise of English Cut Lead Crystal 1700-1830Lecture
29 September 2023Private Afternoon Visit to West Stow Hall near Bury St Edmunds Visit
18 September 2023The Art & Palaces of Veneto, the Venetian Lagoon & PadovaTour
18 September 2023Palladian Villas of the Veneto and a visit to PaduaVisit
12 September 2023Palladio: 16th Century Villas, Palaces and Churches in the VenetoLecture
13 June 2023Portraiture – Here’s Looking at You Lecture
09 May 2023Music in Art Lecture
03 May 2023The Art, Historic Houses & Heritage of Northumbria Tour
11 April 2023From Egg to BaconLecture
14 March 2023Faber & Faber – 90 years of excellence in cover designLecture
14 February 2023Love in Art Lecture
10 January 2023Discovering Lost Cities of the Silk RoadLecture
13 December 2022Giotto and The Scrovegni ChapelLecture
24 November 2022Leighton House and Sambourne House Please note. This event is now fully subscribedVisit
08 November 2022These Stolen Glances: Elizabethan Miniatures of Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac OliverLecture
11 October 2022The Art of Stained GlassLecture
23 September 2022Munnings Museum, DedhamVisit
13 September 2022A Private Palace of Art: Frederic Leighton’s Studio House Lecture
20 June 2022Elton House & GardensVisit
15 June 2022The Colouring of the English GardenSpecial Event
14 June 2022The Age of JazzLecture
10 May 2022Christina Rossetti and Her ArtistsLecture
12 April 2022Canal Heritage and HistoryLecture
06 April 2022Historic Houses of CornwallTour
25 March 2022David Parr House, CambridgeVisit
08 March 2022Rescuing Zeugma from the Floodwaters of the EuphratesLecture
08 February 2022Peggy GuggenheimLecture
18 January 2022Gold of the Great Steppe - Fitzwilliam MuseumVisit
11 January 2022Stone on Stone: The Men Who Built the CathedralsLecture
14 December 2021“Fear Not”: The Annunciation in ArtLecture
09 November 2021Caravaggio: The Master of light & ShadowLecture
12 October 2021How To Get Down From A Yak – Nomadic Adventures in Central Asian Nomadic TextilesLecture
19 September 2021The Historic Houses, Art and Heritage of Warwickshire and Oxfordshire Cancelled due to the Covid PandemicTour
14 September 2021Illustrating ‘Alice’ – Some Views of WonderlandLecture
08 September 2021Highgate Cemetery and Kenwood House and GardensVisit
08 June 2021So They Do Cook After All: Ravilious, Bawden and the Great Bardfield ArtistsLecture
11 May 2021Icons: Exploring their History, Power and Enduring MysteryLecture
13 April 2021St. Edmund: History & LegendLecture
09 March 2021Dispelling & Preserving The Moors in SpainLecture
09 February 2021How Pleasant to Know Edward LearLecture
12 January 2021The Silver Thread: Silver Filigree & Traditional Arts in KosovoLecture
09 June 2020So They Do Cook After All: Ravilious, Bawden and the Great Bardfield ArtistsLecture
12 May 2020Icons: Exploring their History, Power and Enduring MysteryLecture
15 April 2020Magical Marrakech – A 5-day TourTour
14 April 2020John Ruskin: His Impact, Achievement and LegacyLecture
10 March 2020Diamonds – The SequelLecture
11 February 2020Beautiful Monsters: Heroic and Grotesque Armour of the Italian Renaissance Lecture
16 January 2020Models, Artists, Makers, Partners and Poets… THE PRE-RAPHAELITE SISTERSVisit
14 January 2020Sweet Swan of Avon: William Shakespeare and his Turbulent WorldLecture
10 December 2019Fizz and Crackle: Imagination, Innovation and Curiosity in the Work of John Singer SargentLecture
12 November 2019A Child of 6 Could Do It: Cartoonists and Modern ArtLecture
08 October 2019The BorgiasLecture
03 October 2019Chihuly at Kew GardensVisit
16 September 2019A Visit to the Lake District, a 3 night, 4 day tour by coachTour
10 September 2019Garden Landscapes with a Gainsborough perspective Lecture
11 June 2019Programme change Photographic Odyssey : Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition Captured on Camera.Lecture
22 May 2019Visit to the Henry Moore FoundationVisit
14 May 2019The Science Behind the Art of Leonardo da VinciLecture
09 April 2019Victoria and Albert – Art and LoveLecture
07 April 2019Japan in Spring. A 14-day tour departingTour
12 March 2019Tantrums and TiarasLecture
12 February 2019The Art and Culture of JapanLecture
16 January 2019ANGLO-SAXON KINGDOMS: ART, WORD, WAR An exhibition at the British LibraryVisit
08 January 2019Historic Gardens of the Italian LakesLecture
11 December 2018Jane Austen’s ChristmasLecture
20 November 2018Brixworth Saxon Church and Charles Rennie Mackintosh HouseVisit
13 November 2018Looking for AphroditeLecture
09 October 2018250th Anniversary of the Royal AcademyLecture
30 September 2018Classical Sicily. A 6-day tour departingTour
11 September 2018Classical SicilyLecture
01 August 2018A 2-day tour by coach, visiting stately homes and gardens, with an overnight stay in ShrewsburyVisit
12 June 2018The Artists of Montmartre "The Pilgrims of Babylon"Lecture
24 May 2018Visit to Otley Hall A stunning Grade 1 listed, 16th Century moated hall in SuffolkVisit
08 May 2018Now You See, Now You Don't - The Art of Visual Deception Lecture
10 April 2018Vivaldi in VeniceLecture
27 March 2018Visit to the Stained Glass Museum, ElyVisit
27 March 2018CHARLES I: KING AND COLLECTOR A visit to the exhibition at the Royal Academy of ArtsVisit
13 March 2018Chinese Imperial Court Costume A Journey through the Imperial WardrobeLecture
13 February 2018Dale Chihuly - The World’s Foremost Glass ArtistLecture
09 January 2018Golden Paintings of International Gothic 1380-1430Lecture
04 January 2018Modigliani at Tate Modern A comprehensive retrospective exhibition of some of the most memorable art of the 20th century Visit
12 December 2017The Story of Christmas in Medieval ArtLecture
14 November 2017Mille Miglia – Cars & CultureLecture
24 October 2017Munnings and the RiverVisit
10 October 2017Edward Seago: From the Circus to SandringhamLecture
14 September 2017The Art & History of Berlin & Potsdam This tour is now fully booked A 6-day tour departingTour
12 September 2017The Other Side Counter memorials - Germany’s post-WW2 culture of apology and atonementLecture
12 July 2017Russian and Soviet Art from Icons to Socialist Realism! Special Event
22 June 2017Private tour of Knebworth House & Gardens. Only two places remaining Visit
13 June 2017Betty Joel – Glamour and Innovation 1930’s StyleLecture
11 May 2017The Genius of Wren, a walking tour of Wren chuchesVisit
09 May 2017The Art of the Great Parisian Jewellery HousesLecture
11 April 2017The Stone of Heaven – Jade, 1500 BC to 1800Lecture
05 April 2017DAVID HOCKNEY RETROSPECTIVE at Tate Britain Visit
14 March 2017Undressing AntiquesLecture
23 February 2017EMMA HAMILTON: SEDUCTION & CELEBRITY Exhibition and Curator Talk at the National Maritime Museum - SOLD OUT Visit
14 February 2017Horse: Bronze Equine Sculpture from pre-history to the Present DayLecture
01 February 2017Palace House - National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting ArtVisit
10 January 2017The Art and Beauty of Old Maps of the WorldLecture
13 December 2016In Need of Nativity — Social History of the Favourite Biblical SceneLecture
17 November 2016Half-Day Visit to The Warner Textile Archive - SOLD OUTVisit
08 November 2016William Moorcroft & His LegacyLecture
27 October 2016SUNKEN CITIES - EGYPT’S LOST WORLDS A visit to the Exhibition at the British MuseumVisit
11 October 2016John Constable & The Making of MasterpiecesLecture
15 September 2016The Palaces & Art of Bologna, Ravenna, Mantova, Parma & FerraraTour
13 September 2016The Elgin MarblesLecture
21 July 2016A Day Out in NorfolkVisit
03 July 2016The Art and History of LiverpoolTour
14 June 2016When Britain Clicked - Fab Photos from the Swinging Sixties Lecture
19 May 2016A Visit to Kent & Surrey embracing George Frederic Watts, Anne Boleyn and Charles DarwinVisit
10 May 2016Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783) - Landscape, Art & Dame Nature Lecture
12 April 2016The Corked Conjurer: comedy, contempt & credulity in Georgian England Lecture
22 March 2016Royal Academy of Arts, Exhibition “PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN: MONET TO MATISSE”Visit
08 March 2016The Development of the Drinking Glass ‘Drink thy wine with a merry heart’ Lecture
09 February 2016English Delftware Drug Jars ‘in paynted pots is hidden the deadliest poison’ Lecture
12 January 2016The Green Man in Art & Mythology - Part 2 Lecture
08 December 2015Inventors of Christmas Lecture
10 November 2015Encompassed by the Inviolate Sea Marine Painting in Cornwall from Turner to Alfred Wallis Lecture
13 October 2015The Glory of Fabergé Lecture
08 September 2015History of the Harp From Mediterranean Antiquity to 20th century Europe Lecture
09 June 2015Islamic Art & DesignLecture
16 May 2015Apsley House and Wellington Arch ‘Celebrating 1815’Visit
12 May 2015Medieval Stained GlassLecture
29 April 2015A Sussex visit embracing the art and lifestyle of Chagall, Penrose, Miller, the Sackvilles, and the Bloomsbury SetVisit
14 April 2015O I do like to be beside the SeasideLecture
17 March 2015Savage Beauty at the V&A. An exhibition celebrating the extraordinary creative talent of Alexander McQeenVisit
10 March 2015Three Great Families and their GardensLecture
12 February 2015BBC Studios and the Hindu Temple at NeasdenVisit
10 February 2015Amazing Playing CardsLecture
13 January 2015Australian ArtistsLecture
07 January 2015Constable The making of a MasterVisit