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19 October 2026Caravaggio - Art and ManLecture
16 October 2026Art Treasures of Northern ItalyVisit
21 September 2026Textiles and the Post-War Visionaries of Modern ArtLecture
07 September 2026Visits in 2026-27 seasonVisit
22 June 2026The Colosseum- theatre of entertainment and deathLecture
03 June 2026Henry Moore Studios and GardenVisit
18 May 2026The Ballet Russes - when art danced with musicLecture
20 April 2026Untouchable Art - non-fungible tokens and speculation in the art marketLecture
16 March 2026Great lengths - art and architecture of swimming pools and lidosLecture
10 March 2026Unravelling the Silk RoadSpecial Event
10 March 2026Special Interest DayLecture
23 February 2026Fresh Encounters - contemporary sculpture and public spaceLecture
19 January 2026War Artists - Paul Nash, Christopher Nevinson and The Great WarLecture
15 December 2025Art, Slavery and CommerceLecture
17 November 2025The lives and times of Barbara Hepworth and Elizabeth FrinkLecture
11 November 2025The Music of Westminster Abbey and St Paul's CathedralSpecial Event
11 November 2025Special Interest Day Lecture
28 October 2025Visit to Eastbourne and GlyndebourneVisit
20 October 2025The rise of the British musical from Noel Coward to Lionel Bart Lecture
15 September 2025Painting is dead - long live photographyLecture
16 June 2025Amazing Architecture - from the sublime ... to the ridiculedLecture
21 May 2025The Red House, AldeburghVisit
19 May 2025The start of landscape painting Lecture
14 April 2025The life and work of Richard DaddLecture
17 March 2025The history of the City of London as told through its stained glassLecture
11 March 2025Life and death in Ancient Egypt - from Rosetta Stone to Tutankhamun's TombSpecial Event
11 March 2025Special Interest Day - Life and Death in Ancient EgyptLecture
24 February 2025 Banksy - fraud or genius? Lecture
20 January 2025The world's greatest paintings - 200 years of the National Gallery Lecture
16 December 2024Royal jewels and the American heiressLecture
18 November 2024Auguste Rodin & 19th century sculpture Lecture
05 November 2024The Art and Artists of Kettle’s Yard Sarah BurlesSpecial Event
30 October 2024Fitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeVisit
21 October 202420th CENTURY GLASS: new marketsLecture
23 September 2024PORTRAITS OF 20th CENTURY ARTISTS through the lens of Jorge LewinskiLecture
26 June 2024Half day visit to Munnings Art Museum, DedhamVisit
24 June 2024The world-class art, architecture and design of the London UndergroundLecture
20 May 2024Daniel Snowman A GILDED STAGE - a social and cultural history of operaLecture
17 April 2024Visit to Gainsborough's House, Sudbury.Visit
15 April 2024Timothy Walker WHY GARDENING CAN RANK AS FINE ARTLecture
18 March 2024Chloe Sayer MEXICAN ART AND CULTURE; past and presentLecture
12 March 2024THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH FAIRS, MARKETS AND SHOPS Andrew DaviesSpecial Event
12 February 2024Valerie Woodgate MAKING SENSE OF MODERN ART Lecture
15 January 2024Susan Kay-Williams COLOUR EXPLOSIONLecture
11 December 2023Sarah Burles "FEAR NOT" The Annunciation in Art.Lecture
20 November 2023Anne Haworth 'GEMSTONES, CRYSTALS AND A BUSHEL OF PEARLS' Bejewelling 'this sceptred isle'. Lecture
14 November 2023BRITISH EMPIRE AND IMPERIAL INDIA Images, architecture and arts Dr John StevensSpecial Event
14 November 2023BRITISH EMPIRE AND IMPERIAL INDIA Images, architecture and artsLecture
16 October 2023Aaron Hunter JURASSIC WORLD OF MARY ANNING 19th century palaeontologistLecture
24 September 2023VISITS PROGRAMME NEW SEASON 2023-24Visit
18 September 2023Brian Stater THE STIRLING PRIZE British architecture's OscarsLecture
03 July 2023Christopher Garibaldi FROM BISCUITS TO BLOUSES - Garibaldi and the BritishLecture
21 June 2023COLUMBINE HALL AND GARDENVisit
19 June 2023Tony Rawlins MAD MEN AND ARTISTS How the advertising industry exploited fine artLecture
15 May 2023Michael Howard L. S. LOWRY A Visionary ArtistLecture
24 April 2023Karin Fernald 'THE TREES WAVE, THE CLOUDS PASS' Virginia Woolf on art, life, London and buying suspenders.Lecture
22 March 2023SAINSBURY CENTRE, NORWICHVisit
20 March 2023Tobias Capwell THE SCOLIOTIC KNIGHT RECONSTRUCTING THE REAL RICHARD IIILecture
14 March 2023BALKAN WOMEN Elizabeth GowingSpecial Event
20 February 2023Lydia Baumann LOOKING FOR GEORGIA My travels through New Mexico in the footsteps of Georgia O'Keeffe Lecture
16 January 2023David Phillips ADVENTURES AND MISADVENTURES IN MUSEUMSLecture
12 December 2022Sue Jackson THE ART OF SNOW AND ICE How artists transformed the winter landscapeLecture
21 November 2022Sophie Matthews MUSIC IN ARTLecture
08 November 2022IMPERIAL COURT LIFE and Exceptional Rulers Qing Dynasty 1644-1911 David RosierSpecial Event
17 October 2022Nicola Moorby AS IF BY MAGIC The Secret of Turner's Watercolour TechniquesLecture
20 June 2022Caroline Levisse SCANDINAVIAN LANDSCAPE PAINTING 1840-1910Lecture
16 May 2022Stella Lyons SOROLLA: Setting the Mediterranean alightLecture
11 April 2022Paul Bahn WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ON EASTER ISLANDLecture
21 March 2022Paul Rabbitts A HISTORY OF LONDON'S ROYAL PARKSLecture
08 March 2022ANCIENT ROOTS Classical Stories Growing in Your Garden Gillian HovellSpecial Event
14 February 2022TANTRUMS & TIARASLecture
17 January 2022FOREIGN ARTISTS WHO CHANGED THE COURSE OF BRITISH ARTLecture
13 December 2021 St Edmund: History and Legend NOTE Change of Lecture topicLecture
23 November 2021SHAKESPEARE & ELEPHANTS, THE TRINITY & PANTOMIME - A FEAST TO ENJOYSpecial Event
15 November 2021UNRAVELLING THE SILK ROAD.Lecture
18 October 2021BRITISH STUDIO POTTERY - A CONCISE HISTORYLecture
23 September 2021ELY CATHEDRAL & STAINED GLASS MUSEUMVisit
20 September 2021 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A PICTURE RESTORER - THE CONSERVATION AND RESTORATION OF EASEL PAINTINGSLecture
15 July 2021VISIT TO HENRY MOORE STUDIO & GARDENSVisit
21 June 2021PEGGY GUGGENHEIMLecture
17 May 2021ROME IN AFRICA, AFRICA IN ROME - AFRICA’S IMPACT ON ROMAN CULTURE AND SOCIETYLecture
19 April 2021A DECORATIVE ART - THE HISTORY OF WALLPAPER Via ZoomLecture
25 March 2021VISIT TO SAINSBURY CENTRE CANCELLEDVisit
15 March 2021“HOW PLEASANT TO KNOW EDWARD LEAR” Via ZoomLecture
08 February 2021STILL LIFE - A HISTORY Via ZoomLecture
18 January 2021THE SUNFLOWER IN ART AND CULTURE Via ZoomLecture
14 December 2020BEER AND SKITTLES : FUN AND GAMES DOWN AT THE LOCAL Via ZOOM at 2.00pmLecture
17 November 2020JEWELLERY & FASHION - CANCELLEDSpecial Event
16 November 2020ORIENTALISM, CHINOISERIE AND JAPONISME Via ZOOMLecture
19 October 2020THE LEGENDARY LEE MILLER Via ZOOMLecture
01 October 2020THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF KENT- VISIT CANCELLEDVisit
24 September 2020ELY CATHEDRAL AND THE STAINED GLASS MUSEUM- VISIT CANCELLEDVisit
21 September 2020THE TWO FACES OF RUSSIA: MOSCOW AND ST. PETERSBURG LECTURE Via ZOOMLecture
15 June 2020STRIPPED NAKED: THE NUDE IN ART HISTORY - LECTURE CANCELLEDLecture
04 June 2020HENRY MOORE STUDIOS AND GARDENS - VISIT CANCELLEDVisit
18 May 2020A HISTORY OF LONDON’S ROYAL PARKS - LECTURE CANCELLEDLecture
20 April 2020FOREIGN ARTISTS WHO CHANGED THE COURSE OF BRITISH ART, 1520 TO 1677- LECTURE CANCELLEDLecture
25 March 2020ART DECO BY THE SEA - VISIT CANCELLED Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, NorwichVisit
16 March 2020TANTRUMS AND TIARAS -LECTURE CANCELLEDLecture
03 March 2020BRITISH ART SINCE 1850: THE PRE-RAPHAELITES TO THE TURNER PRIZESpecial Event
10 February 2020RAPHAEL: GENIUS OF THE RENAISSANCE IN ROMELecture
20 January 2020HIDDEN CANVASSES: STREET ART AND THE CITYLecture
09 December 2019DALE CHIHULY: THE WORLD’S FOREMOST GLASS ARTISTLecture
18 November 2019THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF MISIA SERT (1877 - 1950) QUEEN OF PARISLecture
12 November 2019THE GRAND TOUR : COLLECTING AND CULTURAL TOURISM; THE BRITISH AND THE LURE OF ITALY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURYSpecial Event
21 October 2019RIVIERA PARADISE: ART, DESIGN & PLEASURE IN THE 1920’SLecture
14 October 2019Glyndebourne VisitVisit
24 September 2019WALKING TOUR OF WAPPING AND St KATHARINE’S DOCK with Andrew DaviesVisit
16 September 2019PORTRAITS IN STONE: THE GREAT CATHEDRALS OF MEDIEVAL ENGLAND.Lecture
17 June 2019MAD TRACEY FROM MARGATELecture
12 June 2019VISIT TO PALACE HOUSE, NEWMARKET AND WYKEN VINEYARDVisit
20 May 2019KING GEORGE IV, THE GREATEST ROYAL COLLECTOR OF ARTLecture
15 April 2019WEDGWOOD AND HIS CONTEMPORARIESLecture
10 April 2019VAN GOGH AND BRITAIN - TATE BRITAINVisit
18 March 2019THE DUC DE BERRY AND HIS GLORIOUS HOURSLecture
26 February 2019ART NOUVEAU : ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNSpecial Event
11 February 2019POWER AND PROPAGANDA: ART AND ARCHITECTURE AT THE COURT OF FEDERICO DE MONTEFELTROLecture
21 January 2019ERIC GILL: SCULPTOR AND MASTER CRAFTSMANLecture
10 December 2018“PUNCH AND JUDY” A SUBVERSIVE SYMBOL FROM COMMEDIA DELL’ARTE TO THE PRESENT DAYLecture
27 November 2018NEW YORK, NEW YORK: A TIME-TRAVEL VIRTUAL TOURSpecial Event
19 November 2018GLORIOUS THINGS: DISCOVERING BYZANTIUM THROUGH ITS ARTLecture
15 October 2018THE OTHER SIDE: GERMANY’S POST-WWII CULTURE OF APOLOGY AND ATONEMENTLecture
04 October 2018THE HISTORY AND HERITAGE OF HAMPSHIRE & THE ISLE OF WIGHTVisit
18 September 2018KNEBWORTH HOUSE Visit
17 September 2018THE MYSTICAL AND SPIRITUAL IN BRITISH ARTLecture
27 June 2018VISIT TO THE LANDMARK PICASSO EXHIBITION- CANCELLEDVisit
18 June 2018HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS: THE RENAISSANCE PALACE INTERIORLecture
21 May 2018THE MAGNIFICENT MAYA, FACT AND FANTASYLecture
14 May 2018HISTORIC HOUSES AND HERITAGE OF YORKSHIREVisit
16 April 2018GUSTAV KLIMT 1862 – 1918Lecture
10 April 2018THE GOLDEN AGE OF DUTCH PAINTINGSpecial Event
22 March 2018WALKING TOUR OF LIMEHOUSE, CANARY WHARF AND THE ISLE OF DOGSVisit
19 March 2018OCEAN LINER ART: SHIPS THAT SHAPED OUR LIVES 1800-1950Lecture
19 February 2018VOTES FOR WOMEN! ART, SUFFRAGETTES AND FEMALE POLITICIANSLecture
15 January 2018EDWARD SEAGO - LANDSCAPE PERFECTIONIST AND ROYAL FAVOURITELecture
11 December 2017Artists and Espionage-The Lawn Road Flats NW3: Modernist living in mid-20th century LondonLecture
20 November 2017“A CHILD OF SIX COULD DO IT”Lecture
14 November 2017VERDI AND VICTORIA: National IconsSpecial Event
16 October 2017JACOB EPSTEINLecture
01 October 2017ART AND MUSIC IN VIENNA A Five Day TripVisit
20 September 2017THE WALLACE COLLECTIONVisit
18 September 2017CARAVAGGIO: THE MASTER OF LIGHT AND SHADOWLecture
22 June 2017VISIT TO SPENCERS GARDEN AND GAINSBOROUGH’S HOUSEVisit
19 June 2017LEGEND AND LUSTRE: JIM THOMPSON AND THAI SILKLecture
15 May 2017CHANGE OF PROGRAMME TO Art & Photography in the American DepressionLecture
04 May 2017ART & CRAFT OF BIRMINGHAM AND THE HEART OF ENGLAND : Five Day TripVisit
10 April 2017WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS: FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHYLecture
21 March 2017VISIT TO DAVID HOCKNEY RETROSPECTIVE, TATE BRITAINVisit
20 March 2017PEVSNER IN SUFFOLK: NIKOLAUS PEVSNER AND THE BUILDINGS OF ENGLANDLecture
21 February 2017THE SUBLIME TO THE RIDICULOUS: HOGARTH, REYNOLDS & GILLRAYSpecial Event
20 February 2017THE REMARKABLE COLLECTIONS OF ISAAC AND MOÏSE DE CAMONDOLecture
16 January 2017VIVALDI IN VENICELecture
12 December 2016DECK THE HALL: Yuletide Customs and TraditionsLecture
21 November 2016FROM RICHES TO RAGS:- The Huguenot Silk Weavers of SpitalfieldsLecture
08 November 2016ANTIQUE JEWELLERYSpecial Event
17 October 2016LONDON’S SQUARES AND TOWN HOUSES IN THE 17th and 18th CENTUARYLecture
04 October 20162016 DDFAS HOLIDAY TO ITALYVisit
19 September 2016PHOTOGRAPHIC ODYSSEY: Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition Captured on CameraLecture
07 September 2016ELTHAM PALACE AND GARDENS................(Please note: this replaces the proposed visit to Hampton Court) Visit
23 June 2016OXBURGH HALLVisit
20 June 2016THE DAY PARLIAMENT BURNED DOWNLecture
16 May 2016LOVE AND LOSS: The Story of Orpheus and Eurydice in Art and MusicLecture
03 May 20162016 DDFAS HOLIDAY TO WARWICKSHIRE Visit
18 April 2016THE ELGIN MARBLES: 100 years since they were bought and what happened to them?Lecture
05 April 2016TOUR OF SPITALFIELDS AND WHITECHAPEL WITH ANDREW DAVIESVisit
21 March 2016THE FASCINATING WORLD OF PLAYING CARDSLecture
23 February 2016RUSSIAN AND SOVIET ART From Icon to Social RealismSpecial Event
15 February 2016ERIC RAVILIOUS AND THE LURE OF THE EVERYDAY ARTLecture
18 January 2016MARS AND THE MUSES: The Ancient Art of ArmourLecture
14 December 2015Musical and Cultural Life in Shakespeare’s England Lecture
14 December 2015DDFAS ANNUAL CHRISTMAS LUNCH Lecture
16 November 2015Deadly Rivals: the Earl of Arundel, Duke of Buckingham and Charles I as Patrons of the Arts Lecture
10 November 2015JOHN SINGER SARGENT—MASTER OF THE SOCIETY PORTRAITSpecial Event
19 October 2015Facing up to Goya : portraits by Goya Lecture
04 October 2015HOLIDAY IN MOROCCOVisit
21 September 2015James Whistler—The Gentle Art of Making Enemies Lecture
15 September 2015AUDLEY END HOUSE AND THE FRY GALLERYVisit
23 June 2015ELTON HALL AND GARDENSVisit
15 June 2015 Jennie Churchill: Winston Churchill’s Mother: Style Icon or Ambitious Seductress? Lecture
18 May 2015Imperial Purple to Denim:- The colourful history of textilesLecture
12 May 2015MEDIEVAL ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPTS The Art of the BookSpecial Event
26 April 2015HOLIDAY IN LIVERPOOLVisit
20 April 2015Vanbrugh to Repton - The Development of the Eighteenth Century English Garden”Lecture
23 March 2015SPENCER HOUSE AND THE CABINET WAR ROOMSVisit
16 March 2015Art of Classical Greece: Representing men, citizens and warriorsLecture
24 February 2015NEW DISCOVERIES ABOUT OLD OAK FURNITURESpecial Event
16 February 2015The Development of the Drinking GlassLecture
19 January 2015The Phoenix at the Fall of Empire: Three Empresses of China and the Fate of the Imperial Art CollectionLecture
15 December 2014The Christmas Tree " From Forest Fir to Festive Feature"Lecture
17 November 2014The Two Elizabeths —“Bookends of the Empire”Lecture
11 November 2014THE ARTS OF JAPAN AND EUROPE Fascinating Parallels and Contrasts throughout historySpecial Event
20 October 2014Toulouse-Lautrec "On the Walls of Paris"Lecture
16 October 2014NATIONAL GALLERY- REMBRANDT "THE LATE WORKS"Visit
15 September 2014Lost on the Titanic:“The Making of the Great Omar Binding”Lecture
25 June 2014FELBRIGG HALL & EAST RUSTON GARDENSVisit
16 June 2014Thomas Heatherwick: Sir Terence Conran described him as “The Leonardo da Vinci of our times”Lecture
19 May 2014The Drama behind the Taj Mahal: Mughal painting at its zenith and the life and times of the Indian Emperor Shah JahanLecture
10 May 2014HOLIDAY to BUDAPESTVisit
06 May 2014IN AND AROUND ST PANCRAS WITH ANDREW DAVIS AGAINVisit
14 April 2014Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: The Golden Age of Mexican PaintingLecture
25 March 2014IN AND AROUND ST PANCRAS WITH ANDREW DAVIESVisit
17 March 2014“Jack Tar Afloat and Ashore” – The Art of Maritime CaricatureLecture
17 February 2014Every Dog has its Day in ArtLecture
14 February 2014MASTERPIECES: ART AND EAST ANGLIAVisit
28 January 2014GREAT TARTS IN ART: HIGH CULTURE AND THE OLDEST PROFESSIONSpecial Event
20 January 2014“At the Sign of the Falcon”: The Life and Works of Henry George Murphy - Britain’s most neglected goldsmithLecture