Past Lectures Copies, Curtains and Ways of Looking by Chantal Brotherton – Ratcliffe – Thursday November 7 2024 The Green man in English Churches by Imogen Corrigan – Thursday 3 October 2024 London Bridged: 3,500 Years of Crossing the Thames by Charlie Forman – Thursday 5 September 2024 Women Artists in Britain – by Amy Lim – Thursday 6 June 2024 Grace Darling and the Fine Art of Saving Lives at Sea – by James Taylor – Thursday 2 May 2024 Wealth Adornment Art : A Study of Jewellery in 17th -19th Century England by Amanda Herries – Thursday 4 April 2024 The World’s Greatest Paintings: 200 Years of The National Gallery by Simon Whitehouse – Thursday 7 March 2024 The Art of Trickery: How Magicians are Seen in Paintings, Prints and Cartoons by Ian Keable – Thursday 1 February 2024 Monopoly by Roger Mendham – Thursday 4 January 2024 Shepard’s Christmas by James Campbell – Thursday 7th December 2023 The Culture of Ukraine by Rosamund Bartlett- Thursday 2nd November 2023 Creating an Imaginary World – Theatre Design From Temple to Playhouse, Into the Picture Frame and Out Again by Bertie Pearce – Thursday 5th October 2023 The History of Opera by Jamie Hayes – Thursday 7 September Selfies, Self – Expression, Celebrity and Victorian Carte De Visite by Mark Hill – Thursday 1st June 2023 The Colossal Art and Architecture of Egypt’s Boldest Pharaoh by Lucia Gahlin – Thursday 4th May 2023 The World’s Most Expensive Art – Where Leonardo Meets Picasso by Ian Swankie – Thursday 6th April 2023 Ways to Look at Painting by Alice White – Thursday 2nd March 2023 The Art and Craft of John Piper by Jo Walton – Thursday 2nd February 2023 When the MGM Lion Roared: The Hollywood Studios by Colin Shindler – Thursday 5th January 2023 Who is Santa Claus? Art from St Nicholas to Father Christmas by Christopher Bradley – Thursday 1st December 2022 The Borgias, the Most Infamous Family in History? by Sarah Dunant – Thursday 3rd November 2022 Pieter Bruegel the Elder and his Sons by Clare Ford – Wille – Thursday 6th October 2022 Pomp, And Feast, And Revelry: The Medieval Year in Art by Richard Whincop – Thursday 1st September 2022 Baroque on a Roll: Classical Music in the Modern Era – Thursday 7th July 2022 1 2 3 … 5 ›