Lectures will be held at 11.00am on the first Tuesday of he month at the Crosfield Hall. Unless circumstances change, they will not be broadcast on Zoom.
-
6 September: Gavin Plumley “A Hungarian Metropolis: Art and Culture in Budapest”
Budapest was formed in 1873 by the unification of Buda and Pest, situated on either side of the River Danube.… Read more… -
4 October: Simon Seligman “Chatsworth: a 21st Century Renaissance”
Chatsworth has undergone a renaissance under the leadership of first, the 11th, and now the 12th, Duke and Duchess of… Read more… -
1 November: Annalie Talent “From Errol Flynn to bottles of Gin: literary portraits and their afterlives”
From Burns to Byron and from Jane Austen to the Brontes; this lecture will uncover the fascinating stories behind some… Read more… -
6 December: Harry Venning “The Art of the Cartoonist”
Harry will be tracing the history of his profession with examples from early practitioners like Cruickshank and Hogarth, to more… Read more… -
7 February: Angela Findlay “The Art of Atonement: How Germany commemorates the Second World War”
How do you express national guilt and apology rather than pride and patriotism? How do you remember what you would… Read more… -
7 March: Grant Ford “Female Artists from Britain and Ireland”
This talk looks at female artists from the 19th and 20th centuries. We discuss the difficulties of becoming a successful… Read more… -
4 April: Rosamund Barlett “Chopin and the Polish Soul”
At the end of the 17th century Poland was the largest state in Europe, but within a hundred years it… Read more… -
3 May (Wednesday): Julian Halsby “The Extraordinary Life of Misia Sert”
Born Marie Godebska, Misia was brought up in Paris and Brussels and became a pupil of the concert pianist and… Read more… -
6 June: Caroline Rayman “Catherine de Medici,Poor Queen: The Story of Three in a Marriage”
Catherine de Medici, the only woman ever to rule France, married Henry, second son of King Francis I. This was… Read more… -
4 July: Mark Ovenden “160 years of London Underground Design and Architecture”
Love it or loathe it, you can’t fail to be impressed by London’s Tube. It was the world’s first underground… Read more…