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06 October 2026The Women who Conquered ComedyLecture
01 September 2026William MoorcroftLecture
07 July 2026Tradition, Experiment, Repression - the history of Ukrainian Art.Lecture
10 June 2026 "BEHIND THE SCENES OF BRITISH INDEPENDENT CINEMA"Special Event
02 June 2026Shopping on the Rialto in Renaissance Venice. Lecture
05 May 2026Artists, Illness and CreativityLecture
07 April 2026Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge: The House That Reimagined the Art GalleryLecture
03 March 2026The Art of TrickeryLecture
03 February 2026A Carpet ride to KhivaLecture
06 January 2026The Women's Orchestra of AuschwitzLecture
02 December 2025Gilbert and Sullivan: their Topsy-turvy WorldLecture
04 November 2025Celebrating Black FashionLecture
07 October 2025The Golden Age of British ComedyLecture
02 September 2025At Home with the Romans with the Muddy Archaeologist Lecture
01 July 2025John Singer Sargent: The Private RadicalLecture
03 June 2025The Sun King and the Court VersaillesLecture
14 May 2025The National Memorial Arboretum – The nation’s Centre for Remembrance’ Special Event
14 May 2025No Lecture - Special Interest Day at The National Memorial Artboretum.Lecture
13 April 2025Holiday to Kent NOW FULLY BOOKEDVisit
01 April 2025Picasso, the Best Copycat of PaintersLecture
04 March 2025The Best of Pots, The Worst of PotsLecture
04 February 2025Murder Most Florid: Botany and the Crime SceneLecture
07 January 2025The Golden Age of Fashion IllustrationLecture
03 December 2024The Festival of Britain 1951: a Nation Celebrates Art, Architecture and Design in Post War BritainLecture
26 November 2024Christmas Outing - Wollaton Hall, NottinghamVisit
07 November 2024Outing to Dyrham Park, South GloucestershireVisit
05 November 2024Australian Aboriginal Rock Art - the World's Longest Unbroken Art TraditionLecture
01 October 2024Masters of Art NouveauLecture
03 September 2024What did the Egyptians ever do for Bolton?Lecture
25 July 2024Outing to Middleton Hall and Cottesbrook HallVisit
02 July 2024Magic Realism in New England: the Mesmerising Work of Andrew WyethLecture
04 June 2024Agatha Christie, Queen of CrimeLecture
07 May 2024The Paintings of Eliizabeth ILecture
21 April 2024Holiday to ScotlandVisit
11 April 2024Ashmolean Museum OxfordVisit
09 April 2024Reflection and Illusion – Jan van Eyck and his ContemporariesLecture
20 March 2024Cezanne - A painter's intuitive geometrySpecial Event
05 March 2024The Post War Textile Visionaries of Modern Art 1: Ascher, Modernism, Textiles, Art and FashionLecture
06 February 2024Anthony van Dyck at the Court of Charles ILecture
07 December 2023Christmas Outing + lunch to Chillington Hall and John Thompson InnVisit
05 December 2023Christmas with Giles, Grandma and familyLecture
30 November 2023Christmas Outing + Lunch to Chillington Hall and The John Thompson InnVisit
07 November 2023The Creation of the 2024 Tate Britain Exhibition 'Women Artists in Britain from 1520-1920'Lecture
05 October 2023Outing to Ledbury and Hellens Manor and GardensVisit
03 October 2023E H Shepard: Cartoonist and Winnie the Pooh IllustratorLecture
05 September 2023The Men Who Made MenswearLecture
04 July 2023Royal Jewels and the American HeiressLecture
06 June 2023Happy & Glorious: Celebrating the Accession of Queen Elizabeth IILecture
09 May 2023Outing to Broughton Castle and Canons AshbyVisit
02 May 2023George Chinnery, The Greatest Artist of British IndiaLecture
24 April 2023Holiday to Meon Valley HampshireVisit
04 April 2023A Bit of a Carry OnLecture
23 March 2023Study Morning looking at The Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of KellsSpecial Event
07 March 2023The Nocturne in 19th Century Music and ArtLecture
07 February 2023Meetings with remarkable Art in the MidlandsLecture
06 December 2022Christmas, 'It's a Wonderful Life' and the Forgotten Genius of Frank CapraLecture
01 December 2022Christmas Outing to Clawson Old Manor with lunchVisit
24 November 2022Christmas Outing + LunchVisit
01 November 2022Stairway to Heaven: the Poignant Works of Fra AngelicoLecture
10 October 2022Holiday in Middle EnglandVisit
04 October 2022With a Little Help from his Friends: the Beatles and their ArtistsLecture
06 September 2022Pompeii - Digging Deeper with the Muddy ArcheologistLecture
05 July 2022Curves Colours and Cool - Mid Century ModernLecture
07 June 2022Wine, Women and Song. Dutch Painting at Time of Vermeer + AGMLecture
03 May 2022The Vernons and the Art and Architecture of Sudbury HallLecture
05 April 2022The Treasures of Far CathayLecture
29 March 2022Women of Excellent Understanding: the Wives and Daughters of the Lunar SocietySpecial Event
01 March 2022Painter and Plantsman, Cedric Morris, Irises and BeyondLecture
01 February 2022From Downton to Gatsby: Jewellery and Fashion 1890 to 1929Lecture
11 January 2022The Golden Years of Diaghilev's Ballets RussesLecture
07 December 2021Romancing the Rails. British Railway Posters on Track with the World's Best. Lecture
02 November 2021Jim Thompson and Thai SilkLecture
05 October 2021The Royal Academy - Guardians of British Artistic Taste?Lecture
07 September 2021Michelangelo & the Sistine ChapelLecture
06 July 2021"Through a Glass Darkly" - a history of glass through the eyes of the artistLecture
01 June 2021The Battle of Britain: Image and RealityLecture
04 May 2021A Painter Looks at PaintingLecture
06 April 20215000 years of glass in 60ish minutesLecture
02 March 2021Les Parisiennes - the women of Paris in the 1940'sLecture
02 February 2021"Now you see it, now you don't" - Zoom LectureLecture
19 January 2021Treason, Triangles and Thomas Tresham - Zoom LectureLecture
07 December 2020Painting Winter: snow scenes in art - Zoom LectureLecture
03 November 2020The Empty Chair in art from Van Gogh to Ai Weiwei - Zoom LectureLecture
06 October 2020Debo Mitford, Duchess of Devonshire & Housewife - Zoom LectureLecture
01 September 2020Stories in Stone: the War Memorials of William Storr Barber - Zoom LectureLecture
22 July 2020ONLINE LECTURE - The Mona Lisa and Other Housewives - how portraits lie about their sittersLecture
07 July 2020Treason, Triangles and Thomas Tresham - CANCELLEDLecture
02 June 2020Jim Thompson and Thai Silk - CANCELLEDLecture
05 May 2020From Downton to Gatsby: Jewellery and Fashion from 1890 to 1929 - CANCELLEDLecture
07 April 2020Les Parisiennes - CANCELLEDLecture
23 March 2020Women of Excellent Understanding: the Wives & Daughters of the Lunar Society CANCELLEDSpecial Event
03 March 2020Chippendale's WorkshopLecture
04 February 2020Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun: Femme ExtraordinaireLecture
02 December 2019Grandfather Frost and Old New Year Traditions in RussiaLecture
05 November 2019Elisabeth Frink - The Expressive Power of BronzeLecture
01 October 2019From Venice to Sheffield: John Ruskin's Passion for Art, Craft and Social Justice.Lecture
03 September 2019For the Love of FlowersLecture
16 July 2019FROM ARDEN'S SOILY HILL TO THE DOMESDAY BOOK ... AND PIMM'S' Special Event
02 July 2019From Pre-Raphaelite to President: John Everett Millais RA Lecture
04 June 2019Punch and JudyLecture
21 May 2019The Luttrell Psalter Special Event
07 May 2019English Silverware (1690 -1760) Dr. Peter le Rossignol Lecture
02 April 2019Leonardo's WomenLecture
05 March 2019The Glory of Venice – a city and its music from the 16thC to the 18thCLecture
05 February 2019Victoria Regina 1819 to 2019: Birth of a Modern MonarchyLecture
03 December 2018Norman Rockwell's Christmas WishLecture
06 November 2018All the Beasts of the Earth and the Flowers of the Field - depictions of flora and fauna in pottery and porcelainLecture
02 October 2018Lichfield: Revealing England's Forgotten CathedralLecture
04 September 2018The Great PhotographsLecture
03 July 2018Undressing AntiquesLecture
05 June 2018Amazing Architecture - from the Sublime to the RidiculedLecture
01 May 2018Indians, Buffalo and Storms - the American West in the 19th CenturyLecture
10 April 2018The Other Side: Germany's Post World War II Culture of Memorials and Counter-MemorialsLecture
06 March 2018Vive la Difference? A Woman Painter looks at Women ArtistsLecture
06 February 2018A Renaissance in Modern Times: Chatsworth and the Devonshire Collection from 1950 to the present dayLecture
05 December 2017Oh Yes it is: a History of Pantomime from Ancient to ModernLecture
07 November 2017Stories in Stained Glass (especially in Staffordshire)Lecture
17 October 2017'Head, Hand & Heart': the Birmingham Group of Artist-CraftsmenSpecial Event
10 October 2017Opera on Film - Study DaySpecial Event
03 October 2017Gustav KlimtLecture
05 September 2017Caravaggio: a master of light and shadeLecture
04 July 2017The Horse, Modernity and Modern ArtLecture
06 June 2017Gems from Life: from flies to elephantsLecture
04 May 2017John Taylor Bell Foundry - LoughboroughSpecial Event
02 May 2017Birmingham Town Hall: England's First Truly Civic BuildingLecture
17 April 2017NADFAS AGM BIRMINGHAMSpecial Event
04 April 2017Victorian Idyll - paintings and gardens from Allingham to LutyensLecture
23 March 2017The Life and Work of Sir Frank BrangwynSpecial Event
26 January 2017Tour of Birmingham Symphony HallSpecial Event
17 November 2016Special Interest Morning - Screening of "Renoir: Revered and Reviled"Special Event
18 October 2016NADFAS West Midlands Area - The Art and Science of the Lunar SocietySpecial Event
13 October 2016Wedgwood and ArtistsSpecial Event
21 April 2016Special Interest Morning - Screening of "The Impressionists and the Man who Made Them"Special Event