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20 October 2026Mad Men and Artists: How the advertising industry exploited fine artLecture
21 July 2026The Garden in Ancient Egyptian ArtLecture
16 June 2026Dining with James [Parson Woodforde] and Jane [Austen]: Eating at home with the GeorgiansLecture
19 May 2026Inspired by StonehengeLecture
21 April 2026The Beatles: Here, there and everywhereLecture
17 March 2026The Glasgow Boys: Painting in Scotland, 1875-1914Lecture
10 March 2026Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: The Golden Age of Mexican PaintingSpecial Event
17 February 2026Revisiting Wells CathedralLecture
20 January 2026Festival of Britain, 1951: Art, architecture and design in post-war BritainLecture
09 December 2025Snakes, Saints and Pawnbrokers - The truth about ChristmasLecture
18 November 2025'Go Crystal Tears': The art of melancholyLecture
21 October 2025Dame Laura KnightLecture
20 October 2025Glyndebourne’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ & the Heritage of SussexTour
20 October 2025Glyndebourne’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ & the Heritage of SussexVisit
15 July 2025An English Eye: James Ravilious, the photography of a forgotten corner of BritainLecture
17 June 2025Mesoamerica-Maya: Bonampak Murals, 'The Sistine Chapel of the Americas'Lecture
20 May 2025Art Behind Bars: The role of the arts in breaking the cycle of crime, prison and re-offendingLecture
15 April 2025Arts and Crafts Stained Glass in English Churches - 10.15 coffee, 10.30 AGM, 11.00 lectureLecture
09 April 2025Day of Discovery - Featuring Marc Allum Lecturing on AntiquesSpecial Event
18 March 2025The Gardens of Great Dixter: Gardening as an Art Form - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
18 February 2025A Stonemason's Guide to Britain's (and Somerset's) ChurchesLecture
21 January 2025The Two Gustavs: Mahler and Klimt - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
10 December 2024Norman Rockwell's Christmas Wish - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
19 November 2024King and Collector: Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
29 October 2024Glyndebourne’s ‘Il Turco In Italia’ & the Heritage of SussexVisit
15 October 2024From Posset Pots to Pew Groups: The Fashion for Collecting Early English Pottery - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
21 September 2024Kathakali Special Event
16 July 2024Bravos and Breastplates: The Evolution of Opera - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
18 June 2024The Chair: 2000 Years of Sitting Down! - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
21 May 2024Drawn from Life: The Extraordinary Art and Life of Augustus John - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
16 April 2024Persepolis: Art, Architecture and Ideology of the Persian Empire - 10.15 coffee, 10.30 AGM, 11.00 lectureLecture
09 April 2024Day of Discovery - Samarkand to the Taj Mahal Central Asia and the Great MogulsSpecial Event
19 March 2024The fascinating world of colour and how we see it - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
20 February 2024The Elgin MarblesLecture
19 February 2024King and Collector: Henry VIII and the Art of Kingship - 10.15 coffee, 11.00 lectureLecture
16 January 2024Dale Chihuly and the American Glass MovementLecture
12 December 2023E H Shepard: Shepard's ChristmasLecture
21 November 2023Fiction, Fallacy and Fake NewsLecture
16 November 2023Glyndebourne's L'Elisir D'Amore & the Heritage of SussexVisit
16 November 2023Dale Chihuly and the American Glass MovementLecture
17 October 2023Legend and Lustre: Jim Thompson and Thai SilkLecture
18 July 2023The loose and airy lightness of Flowers: Grinling Gibbons and his carvings in WoodLecture
20 June 2023Gender and 20th Century British Sculpture: Barbara Hepworth and Elisabeth FrinkLecture
06 June 2023Burrow Farm GardenVisit
01 June 2023Day of Special Interest - The Pre–RaphaelitesSpecial Event
16 May 2023Brueghel and Rubens a fruitful partnershipLecture
23 April 2023The Art & History of Glasgow, Edinburgh & Charles Rennie MackintoshTour
23 April 2023The Art & History of Glasgow, Edinburgh & Charles Rennie MackintoshVisit
18 April 2023The Fourteenth Street School-Representing New York in the 1920’s and 30’sLecture
21 March 2023A proliferation of Patterns: Wallpapers 1920 -2000Lecture
21 February 2023“All is not gold that glitters”: the story of lusterware in the Islamic worldLecture
17 January 2023Temples, Tombs and Treasures: In Search of the Queen of ShebaLecture
13 December 2022From Tchaikovsky to Tin Pan Alley- Uplifting Christmas MusicLecture
15 November 2022The Turner Prize ExplainedLecture
18 October 2022The Lutterell Psalter: England on the verge of the Black DeathLecture
08 October 2022Glyndebourne Opera Tour 8th - 10th October 2022Visit
08 October 2022Glyndebourne Opera Tour (Departing 8th October 2022)Special Event
19 July 2022Emile Galle and Rene Lalique masters of Art Deco and Art Nouveau GlassLecture
21 June 2022Pastiches for purists: Portmeirion Poundbury and Bekonscot too Lecture
17 May 2022Italian Masters: De Coding da Vinci Lecture
19 April 2022The Pilgrims of Babylon: The Artists of MontmartreLecture
15 March 2022Passionate Potters from De Morgan to LeachLecture
11 March 2022Wonderful Things" Tutankhamun: the boy-king, his tomb and treasuresSpecial Event
15 February 2022Tom Roberts and the Heidelberg SchoolLecture
18 January 2022The Emperor Qianlong (1736-1796): 'Ultimate Renaissance Ruler & Fine Art Collector'Lecture
07 December 2021Grandfather Frost and the Old New Year: Russian ChristmasLecture
16 November 2021Preserving our ecclesiastical textile heritageLecture
19 October 2021Georgia O’Keefe in New MexicoLecture
20 July 2021How to read the English Country Church Part 1: The pre-Christian to the TudorsLecture
15 June 2021Thomas Heatherwick: A Modern Leonardo?Lecture
18 May 2021A Victorian Idyll: Cottage Gardens from Allingham to LutyensLecture
20 April 2021Double Dutch: symbols, emblems etc in Dutch Genre PaintingLecture
16 March 2021Banned: Savisky and the secret horde of avante garde artLecture
16 February 2021Art not Words! Woman’s Suffrage – how Art and Design helped the CauseLecture
19 January 2021Raphael of UrbinoLecture
01 February 2020'Explore Venice'. Special Event