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09 September 2026Romancing the Rails: British Railways posters.Lecture
08 July 2026Celebrating the Centenary of Winnie the PoohLecture
10 June 2026Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group 1905 - 1918Lecture
13 May 2026A Piece of the Auction: Behind the Scenes of an International Auction HouseLecture
07 May 2026Hidden Italy: Padua, Vicenza and MantuaTour
08 April 2026The Odd Couple: Gertrude Jekyll and Edward LutyensLecture
11 March 2026The Profitable Art of Flattery: Reynolds, Gainsborough and Portraiture in the 18th CenturyLecture
11 February 2026A Highland Thing? 18th to 20th Century Scottish ArtLecture
14 January 2026Dale Chihuly and the American Art Glass MovementLecture
12 November 2025Photography of the Swinging SixtiesLecture
08 October 2025Frida Kahlo....Lecture
10 September 2025Wallace Collection's RembrandtsLecture
09 July 2025Life and Art of Georgia O'KeeffeLecture
11 June 2025Ancient Egyptian Treasures in the Ashmolean MuseumLecture
14 May 2025Art transported: How did it get here from where it was made? Who owned it before?Lecture
09 April 2025Art of the Russian RevolutionLecture
12 March 2025The Great Poster War 1914-1918Lecture
12 February 2025Paris and the Belle EpoqueLecture
08 January 2025Britain; Workshop of the World. The Great Exhibition of 1851 and the Establishment of the Victoria and Albert MuseumLecture
13 November 2024Off the Road: Album Covers 1950 to 2000Lecture
16 October 2024The Globe Theatre, LondonVisit
09 October 2024Why did Laura Knight become so famous?Lecture
11 September 2024Imperial Calcutta: Art and ArchitectureLecture
16 July 2024Ashmolean Museum and Merton College, OxfordVisit
10 July 2024A Brief History of WineLecture
16 June 2024Puglia, Lecce and Vieste - Undiscovered ItalyTour
12 June 2024Tamara De Lempicka: Epitome of Art Deco PortraitureLecture
08 May 2024Paint to Print: Tracey Chevalier ‘The Girl with the Pearl EarringLecture
18 April 2024Arundel CastleVisit
10 April 2024James MacNeil Whistler: The Gentle Art of Making EnemiesLecture
13 March 2024Contemporary Artists: Anthony Gormley and Anish KapoorLecture
14 February 2024Berthe Morisot: Her Life and CareerLecture
10 January 2024A History of western Painting in 12 MasterpiecesLecture
15 November 2023National Theatre visit and tourVisit
08 November 2023Charles Dickens – The Man and His Life through his Characters.Lecture
11 October 2023Dutch Paintings of everyday Life from Hals to VermeerLecture
13 September 2023Pictures of the Floating World: Ukiyo-E Woodblock Prints Lecture
12 September 2023Sardinia and Corsica.Tour
06 September 2023Royal Pavilion BrightonVisit
12 July 2023Faberge : Objects of DesireLecture
15 June 2023Standen House and GardenVisit
14 June 2023The England of Eric RaviliousLecture
10 May 2023Art and the Mughal WorldLecture
20 April 2023Shri Swaminarayan MandirVisit
12 April 2023Scottish ArtLecture
08 March 2023Banksy - Fraud or Genius?Lecture
16 February 2023The Story of MayfairVisit
08 February 2023Act of AtonementLecture
11 January 2023The Enigma of Cezanne and the Foundations Of Modern ArtLecture
09 November 2022John Singer Sargent - A Life through PicturesLecture
12 October 2022Peggy GuggenheimLecture
14 September 2022Nicholas Hawksmoor and the English BaroqueLecture
13 July 2022David Hockney - Blondes have more FunLecture
08 June 2022The Della Robbia Family - Sculptors and Potters of Renaissance FlorenceLecture
11 May 2022Behind the Smile. The Story of the Mona LisaLecture
13 April 2022The Dowager Empress CIXI (1835-1908) - Ruling from behind the Yellow Silk ScreenLecture
09 March 2022Northern Lights: The Influence of Netherlandish Art on the Italian RenaissanceLecture
02 March 2022Raphael in RomeVisit
09 February 2022Raphael: A Master in the MakingLecture
12 January 2022Grayson Perry: Pots to FrocksLecture
03 December 2021Pub SignsLecture
10 November 2021Giles - his Life, Times and CartoonsLecture
13 October 2021Urban Noir - Edward Hopper's NighthawksLecture
08 September 2021Titian: the First Modern MasterLecture
14 July 2021Music and Art in the Age of VermeerLecture
09 June 2021Piero della Francesca: Modern Painter of the RenaissanceLecture
19 May 2021The Dreaming Spires of OxfordVisit
12 May 2021Artemesia Gentileschi: Daughter of Rome, Painter of EuropeLecture
14 April 2021The Art and Craft of John PiperLecture
18 March 2021The Street Art of Shoreditch and SpitalfieldsVisit
10 March 2021Spanish Fire - El Greco and PicassoLecture
10 February 2021The Macclesfield Psalter - Piety and Humour in 14th Century EnglandLecture
28 January 2021The Continuing Story of the East EndVisit
13 January 2021Joaquin Sorolla - Painter of LightLecture
04 December 2020The Magic of PantomimeLecture
11 November 2020The Romanovs: the public and private Lives of Russian RoyaltyLecture
21 October 2020The Story of the old East EndVisit
14 October 2020Coventry Cathedral - Icon and InspirationLecture
09 September 2020When the Hare looked up at the Moon.....Lecture
03 September 2020SICILYTour
24 June 2020Royal Pavilion BrightonVisit
20 May 2020Stratfield SayeVisit
08 April 2020A Rebel on the Run - Caravaggio's final YearsLecture
26 March 2020JAPANTour
11 March 2020The Art of the Steal - Nazi Looting during WWIILecture
19 February 2020Royal Military Academy SandhurstVisit
12 February 2020St. Pancras and Friends - a Journey through London's StationsLecture
08 January 2020Thomas Gainsborough - Portraits in a LandscapeLecture
13 November 2019The Art of Snow and Ice - how Artists transformed the Winter LandscapeLecture
17 October 2019SalisburyVisit
09 October 2019The Stained Glass of Edward Burne-JonesLecture
11 September 2019Van Gogh and Gauguin in ArlesLecture
18 July 2019MottisfontVisit
10 July 2019Damien Hurst - What's it Worth?Lecture
12 June 2019Ocean Liner Art - Ships that shaped our lives 1800-1950Lecture
16 May 2019Knebworth HouseVisit
08 May 2019Passionate Tourist - the Fateful Friendship of Bonington and DelacroixLecture
10 April 2019Henry VIII and the Abraham TapestriesLecture
19 March 2019Hampton Court PalaceVisit
13 March 2019Sir Stanley Spencer - an Autobiography in PicturesLecture
13 February 2019Antoni Gaudi and the Golden Age of Catalan ArchitectureLecture
07 February 2019INDIATour
09 January 2019Lawrence of Arabia - Tortured Hero of Troubled TimesLecture
21 November 2018Royal Military Academy SandhurstVisit
14 November 2018The Twelve Days of ChristmasLecture
10 October 2018Art behind bars - the role of Arts in the cycle of crime and prisonLecture
21 September 2018Sorrento, Naples, HerculaneumTour
12 September 2018L S Lowry - should we celebrate his contribution to British art?Lecture
17 July 2018Lydiard ParkVisit
17 July 2018Russell-Cotes House, Art Gallery and GardenVisit
11 July 2018From Corot to Monet - Developments in French Landscape PaintingLecture
13 June 2018The Mystery of Holbein's AmbassadorsLecture
22 May 2018StourheadVisit
09 May 2018Salisbury Cathedral - the Making and Unmaking of a MasterpieceLecture
11 April 2018Frida Kahloe and Diego Rivera - the Golden Age of Mexican PaintingLecture
04 April 2018Highclere CastleVisit
14 March 2018The Rivalry between Leonardo and MichaelangeloLecture
14 February 2018Edward Lear - Landscape Painter and PoetLecture
10 January 2018Medieval Paris and London - comparison of style and splendourLecture
08 November 2017Image and History – Art at the Lansdowne ClubLecture
17 October 2017Bletchley ParkVisit
11 October 2017The History of Russian ArtLecture
13 September 2017The History of the Harp – from Mediterranean antiquity to 20th century EuropeLecture
12 September 2017Russia - Moscow and St PetersburgTour
12 July 2017Sicilian Splendours – from the Greeks to the NormansLecture
28 June 2017Parham House and GardenVisit
14 June 2017The splendours of North Africa – Roman and Islamic art of Libya, Tunisia and Morocco Lecture
10 May 2017Edgar Degas – Realist or Impressionist?Lecture
26 April 2017Hatfield HouseVisit
12 April 2017James Gillray – Satirist to InsanityLecture
08 March 2017Isfahan and the history of Persian tileworkLecture
15 February 2017Whitchurch Silk Mill and Bombay Gin DistilleryVisit
08 February 2017Thomas Heatherwick – the modern Leonardo?Lecture
11 January 2017Auguste Rodin – the first Modern SculptorLecture
09 November 2016The Punch and Judy Show – a subversive symbol from Commedia Dell’Arte to the present day.Lecture
02 November 2016Winchester Cathedral and Winchester CollegeVisit
12 October 2016The Destruction of the Monasteries - the greatest act of artistic vandalism in English historyLecture
21 September 2016Berkeley CastleVisit
14 September 2016Threads of History – the world of the Bayeux Tapestry Lecture
13 July 2016High Tech Architecture – Norman Foster and Richard RogersLecture
15 June 2016TyntesfieldVisit
08 June 2016The Wonders of the Wallace CollectionLecture
16 May 2016Dubrovnik, the Dalmatian Coast, and MontenegroTour
11 May 2016Cremona and the golden age of violin makingLecture
20 April 2016Dyrham Park and Claverton ManorVisit
13 April 2016Edward Seago – Landscape perfectionist and Royal favourite Lecture
09 March 2016Tales of a mysterious land – Landscapes, Legends, and Archaeology of Ethiopia Lecture
17 February 2016Guildhall Art Gallery and Sir John Soames MuseumVisit
10 February 2016A concise chronology of early Meissen porcelainLecture
13 January 2016Windows on another world – the paintings of Jan Van EyckLecture
18 November 2015Middle Temple and The Foundling MuseumVisit
11 November 2015Life and Art in Georgian DublinLecture
14 October 2015The Dollar Princesses - American women who married into European AristocracyLecture
16 September 2015Syon ParkVisit
09 September 2015The Development of Colour from the Renaissance to the present dayLecture
08 July 2015The Art of WaterlooLecture
17 June 2015Wallace Collection, Apsley House, & Wellington ArchVisit
10 June 2015From Egg to Bacon - English Painting 1850 - 1950Lecture
13 May 2015The Art of the Kimono: Japanese pictorial themes and storiesLecture
22 April 2015Lacock Abbey and the Fox Talbot MuseumVisit
08 April 2015Donatello and the sculpture of the RenaissanceLecture
11 March 2015Jewel of the Crown - the Sainte Chapelle in ParisLecture
18 February 2015Imperial War MuseumVisit
11 February 2015Turner - The Sun is GodLecture
14 January 2015Verdi and Victoria - National IconsLecture
19 November 2014Dulwich Picture Gallery and Greenwich Fan MuseumVisit
12 November 2014Dining, Dandies and DecadenceLecture
08 October 2014Frogmore House - A Royal RetreatLecture
17 September 2014Sudeley CastleVisit
10 September 2014David Roberts : Artist Extraordinary. Revealing the splendours of EgyptLecture
13 August 2014The Architecture of Kensington and ChelseaLecture
09 July 2014All Done on Ginger BeerLecture
18 June 2014Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, including The Mary Rose, HMS Victory, and HMS WarriorVisit
11 June 2014Hogarth : Caricaturist or Character Painter?Lecture
14 May 2014Madame de Pompadour and Marie Antoinette : from Rococo to RevolutionLecture
16 April 2014Chiswick House and Hogarth's HouseVisit
09 April 2014Wilfrid Owen : Poetry and Art of World War 1Lecture
12 March 2014Dreamtime to Machine Time - Australian Aboriginal ArtLecture
19 February 2014Victoria and Albert Museum, including an exhibition of Brtitish drawings, from 1600 to the present dayVisit
12 February 2014The Fascinating World of Playing CardsLecture
08 January 2014The Art of SeductionLecture
13 November 2013Charles Rennie Mackintosh and the Glasgow StyleLecture
16 October 2013Wren's churches - A guided walk with Andrew Davies. Extra Tour for those not able to go in September. Visit
09 October 2013Basingstoke and its Contribution to World CultureLecture
25 September 2013Wren's churches - A guided walk with Andrew Davies Visit
11 September 2013A Family Affair: Florence and the House of MediciLecture
17 July 2013Kingston Lacey Visit
10 July 2013The Life-enhancing Garden: Art appreciation in the design of gardensLecture
12 June 2013Printmaking: the Influence of JaponismeLecture
08 May 2013Tribal Rugs: Treasures of the Black TentLecture
24 April 2013Knole House Visit
10 April 2013Life and Times of the SundialLecture
13 March 2013Wonder Workers and the Art of IllusionLecture
20 February 2013Kensington PalaceVisit
13 February 2013James Whistler - The gentle art of making enemiesLecture
09 January 2013Medieval Illuminated Books of HoursLecture
21 November 2012Freemasons' Hall and Christmas ShoppingVisit
14 November 2012Three Wise Men: Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh - the Tradition of the MagiLecture
10 October 2012English Glass: 17th and 18th CenturyLecture
19 September 2012Guided Tour of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, OxonVisit
12 September 2012Dickens Revisited: Bicentenary of his Birth in 2012Lecture