Category: Past Lectures

Basingstoke and its Contribution to World Culture !! by Rupert Willoughby Renowned for its dullness, Basingstoke is distinguished only by[…]

An Ideal Partnership: Lutyens and Jekyll – James Bolton The last two decades of the C19th reverberated with the row[…]

by Eveline Eaton Within Post-Impressionism, Georges Seurat (1850-1891) evolved a highly personal style which is often referred to as Pointillism[…]

by Helen Hillyard This year marks 200 years since Dulwich Picture Gallery first opened to the public as England’s first[…]

This lecture, by Paula Nutall, tells the Christmas Story through a selection of well-loved paintings and illuminated manuscripts by Italian[…]

By Sarah Deere-Jones Many people around the world today believe the harp to be an exclusively ‘Celtic’ instument and are[…]

by Bertie Pearce Bertie Pearce is a born Entertainer. His shows are remembered years afterwards for all the right reasons.[…]

by Shirley Smith 2016 will be the 600th Anniversary of the birth of Piero fella Francesca and so the perfect[…]

by Julian Halsby Sargent’s life was full of movement – born in Italy, studied in Paris, painted portraits in London,[…]

By Brian MacDonald Brian MacDonald will take us on a journey beginning in Outer Mongolia in the C5th BC and[…]

by Dr. Twigs Way Born in the small village of Kirkharle in Northumberland, Lancelot Brown rose to become the most[…]

by Mary Alexander  

By Theodora Clarke This talk covers the major movements and artists of the early 20th Century in Russia, including Kandinsky,[…]

By Frances Hughes Well known as an actor, playwright and songwriter, Sir Noel Coward also painted in oils, gouache and[…]

By Alan Read Gathering around the Christmas tree, pulling crackers and eating mince-pies are some of the festive celebrations which[…]

Dr Janet Robson “Once Cimbae thought to hold the field as a painter; Giotto now is all the rage, dimming[…]

By Louise Schofield All those who came to Louise’s last lecture will remember how fascinating and entertaining she was and[…]

By Stephen Duffy The Wallace Collection which is a national museum, containing an outstanding array of paintings, furniture, porcelain, arms[…]

 By Kevin Karney The history of the sundial outstrips that of the clock by at least two thousand years.The lecture[…]

By Anthea Streeter Thomas Heatherwick has won many awards and honours. In 2004 he was the youngest practitioner to be[…]