Author: peter@quarendon.net

This lecture shines a light on the intriguing story of women’s love affair with plumage –  and of the brave[…]

A Spanish painter who created a world full of light and colour which delights the senses.

This lecture considers the influence of the Art of the Low Countries on Italian Renaissance Art. Generally viewed as a[…]

A journey around some of the most evocative and splendid stations in the world.  Magnificent Architecture, brilliant Engineering and  numerous[…]

Portmeirion is an extraordinary surprise; a colourful and delightful fantasy village on the coast of north Wales.   Created from the[…]

An introduction to the great impact Huguenot refugees had on British culture in the 1700s. As silk weavers, goldsmiths, ironworkers[…]

With major furniture commissions in 54 of the 68 Oxbridge colleges, countless museums, palaces, boardrooms and churches, it is highly[…]

William Morris’s famous injunction to “have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful or beautiful”[…]

What is it that conductors do that makes orchestras respond in so many different ways?