Tour to Glasgow and Edinburgh – Sunday 21 to Thursday 25 September 2025
Our 2025 UK Tour will take us to Scotland to visit the wonderful Cities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. Glasgow is[…]
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Category: Events
All Members Coffee Morning – Wednesday 9 April – 10am
We are inviting ALL members to come for a relaxing “get together” of coffee and cake at our Coffee morning[…]
Read moreNew members Coffee Morning – Wednesday 19th March
Have you joined the society in the last eighteen months or so? Then do come to our New Members Coffee[…]
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Society Quiz Night – Friday 7 November 2025
Back by popular demand, the Society Quiz will take place on Friday 7th November 2025. More Details to follow.
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Special Interest Day – Wednesday 12 March 2025 – Istanbul: City of Faith, Power and Beauty presented by Antonia Gatward Cevizli
During the day there will be three lectures beginning with the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, the[…]
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Special Interest Day – Wednesday 12 November – Aspects of Medieval World presented by Nicole Mezey
Golden altarpieces and sumptuous embroideries; women perched precariously on a dragon or holding a tooth in pincers ; cats, dogs[…]
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Visit to Brighton Pavilion- June 2025 (date tbd)
We shall spend the morning visiting the Royal Pavilion & Garden. The Pavilion was constructed as the seaside pleasure palace[…]
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Visit to Stratfield Saye House and Gardens, Hampshire – April/May 2025 date tbc
Stratfield Saye House is a large stately home at Stratfield Saye set in the grounds of Wellington Country Park near[…]
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Fund Raising Bridge Drive Thursday 27 February 2025 at 1.45pm
Our Annual Bridge Drive will take place on Thursday 27th February 2025, play starting promptly at 1.45 p.m. and ending[…]
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Great and Small: Writers Their Pets and Other Animals by Annalie Talent- 2nd October 2025
“He prayeth best, who loveth best/All things both great and small…” Samuel Taylor Coleridge From Robert Burns’s mouse to Shelley’s skylark;[…]
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Art and Craft of the Pewterer by Andrew Spira – 4th September 2025
Pewter is a little remembered and little appreciated material but it was once at the heart of daily life all[…]
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Michael Harris: Mdina Glass & Isle of Wight Studio Glass by Mark Hill – 5th June 2025
Michael Harris was one of the innovators of the international studio glass movement and transformed 20thC glass and its[…]
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Art Deco: Celebrating the Centenary of the 1925 Paris Expo by Pamela Campbell-Johnston – 1st May 2025
In 1925, 16 million visitors witnessed PARIS’S EXPO – The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts. What would[…]
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160 Years of the London Underground, Design and Architecture by Mark Ovenden – 3rd April 2025
Even in the 1860s and 70s, the expansion of the Underground created a need to have some cohesion between the[…]
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The Art of Courtship in Renaissance Italy by Lydia Goodson – 6th February 2025
“I give you this, my beautiful one, as a token of my love” These words featured on a decorated cup[…]
Read moreThe Influence of Japanese Woodcut on Western Art by Carol Wilhide-Justin – 6th November 2025
When Japan’s borders were opened to the West in 1868 there was a huge surge of interest in all things Japanese[…]
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A Very Ceremonial Christmas by Graham Jones – 4th December 2025
This very light-hearted lecture, looks at the various ceremonial events that take place around Christmas time. Carol services, concerts and[…]
Read moreALL Members Coffee Morning on Wednesday 17th April from 10-11.30a.m in Grayshott Village Hall
We are inviting ALL members to come for a relaxing “get together” of coffee and cake at our Coffee morning[…]
Read moreNew Members Coffee Morning – Friday 15th March from 10-11.30a.m in Grayshott Village Hall
Have you joined in the last two years? Then do come to our New Members Coffee morning which will take[…]
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Britain as Workshop of the World. The Founding of the Victoria and Albert Museum by Anna Warrillow – Thursday March 6 2025
This lecture focuses on the design impact of the Great Exhibition and the need for a ‘legacy institution’ in the[…]
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