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7 June 22: Sue Jackson “The Cultural Heritage of the Huguenots”

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?

Ancient Egypt’s royal Treasures of Tanis

An exploration of how art in the subcontinent threw off the yoke of colonial influence to create modern masterpieces and[…]

The History of the Church and People of the Manor of North Baddesley, Hampshire by V.J. Munday on behalf of[…]

This lecture will trace Vermeer’s origins, his early training and influences.

In 402AD Ravenna became the capital of the Western Roman Empire and continued to prosper under Ostrogoth and then Byzantine[…]

In the ‘golden age’ of cinema film-makers had to construct sets, effectively art installations which they captured on celluloid images. […]