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04 November 2026Antony Gormley and the new face of tradition(s)
07 October 2026The Bronze Age Frescoes from Santorini:The Art of Atlantis
02 September 2026The History of Opera
01 July 2026Death by Wallpaper
03 June 202618th Century England through the eyes of Canaletto
06 May 2026The Art of the Japanese Garden
08 April 2026The Art of Art Deco
04 March 2026Food and Art through the Ages from Renaissance Sugar Sculpture to 3D printing
04 February 2026Monopoly
14 January 2026Portmeirion: A Welsh Italianate Fantasy
05 November 2025Charles 1, King and Collector
01 October 2025Women Artists in Britain
03 September 2025Banksy: Fraud or Genius?
02 July 2025Fashion, Fury and Feathers: Women's Fight for Change
04 June 2025The Healing Power of Plants
07 May 2025Wonder Workers and the Art of Illusion: The History of Magic through Art and Pictures
09 April 2025Freemasonry, Knights Templar and the Rosslyn Chapel
05 March 2025Painted Labyrinth: The making and meaning of the Lindisfarne Gospels
05 February 2025Textile Revolution:Post War Female Designers
15 January 2025Bauhaus and Beyond
13 November 2024300 Years of Christmas at Covent Garden
02 October 2024Charles Dickens: Man of the Theatre
04 September 2024When we were Little Lads: William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, a friendship of a life-time
03 July 2024Secrets of Affluent Mayfair
05 June 2024Cinema from the Rubble: the post-war politics of Ealing Studios
01 May 2024Arts behind Bars: The role of the Arts in breaking the cycle of crime, prison and reoffending
16 April 2024Hogarth at the Hustings: The election entertainment series and the birth of political satire
06 March 2024Treasures of the Borghese Gallery
07 February 2024England's Richest Commoner, The Architectural Madness of William Thomas Beckford
17 January 2024The Bayeux Tapestry
08 November 2023Bruegel: The Seasons of the World
04 October 2023Grace Darling and the Fine Art of saving Lives at Sea
06 September 2023The Healing Power of Plants
05 July 2023Micromosaics: Souvenirs of the Grande Tour 1770 - 1870
07 June 2023The Story of Opium
03 May 2023Mirrors and Torrents: Water in Historic Gardens
05 April 2023Life on a Harp String
08 March 2023Canals
01 February 2023Trans-Atlantic Liners
18 January 2023The Art of Modern Dance
04 January 2023The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - A Zoom lecture
14 December 2022Christmas with Giles, Grandma and Family - Zoom lecture
09 November 2022A Ploughman, an Incestuous Knight, an Eloped Heiress and a Murderess Queen? Decoding a medieval masterpiece - the Luttrell Psalter
05 October 2022Renaissance Cassoni - Wedding Chests and the art of marriage in 15th Century Florence
07 September 2022The Art of Trickery - how Magicians are seen in paintings, prints and cartoons
06 July 2022Busting Medieval Building Myths
01 June 2022The History of Royal Parks, Public Parks and Bandstands
04 May 2022Dame Laura Knight
13 April 2022The Georgian Jewel: A Window opening on a Forgotten World
09 March 2022A Carpet Ride to Khiva
02 February 2022I Got the Dust Bowl Blues
12 January 2022The Genius of Antonio Stradivari
22 December 2021The Magic of Pantomime
10 November 2021Architecture, History and Material Culture of Moorish Spain
06 October 2021"A Courageous & Skilled Shot" - Montenegro's Photographer Princess, Ksenia Petrovic-Njegos (1881 - 1960)
01 September 2021Tamara de Lempicka: Mistress of Arts Deco
22 July 2021“‘Debo’ – Mitford, Cavendish, Devonshire Duchess, Housewife 1920-2014”
14 July 2021Classic Tour of Birmingham
07 July 2021I am the Very Model: Parodies of Victorian Society in Gilbert & Sullivan
24 June 2021Two Glasgow Boys: George Henry and Edward Atkinson Hornel
02 June 2021Fakes and Fortunes (or have I discovered a Constable in my attic?)
27 May 2021The Irritating and Influential Mr Whistler
19 May 2021Food, Glorious Food: A UK Love Affair
05 May 2021Wonderful Things - the Treasures of Tutankhamen
22 April 2021Music and Art in the Age of Vermeer
14 April 2021Medieval Conway – a medieval town between the mountains and the sea
07 April 2021The Rockefellers - a Dynasty of Art Collectors
25 March 2021Tantrums and Tiaras - Backstage at the Royal Opera House
17 March 2021Wilde About Oscar - Oscar Wilde's London
03 March 2021A Garden like no other: Edward James and Las Pozas
18 February 2021“Travels in Rajasthan with Rudyard Kipling: Palaces, Temples, Monuments and Forts in the Land of the Kings”.
10 February 2021The Men Who Made Menswear: The story of Menswear through the Ages
03 February 2021The Most Dissolute Man in London: the first Duke of Devonshire and the building of Chatsworth
28 January 2021Looking for Georgia: My Travels through New Mexico in Search of Georgia O'Keeffe
20 January 2021Walking through the centuries - Time Travel around York
13 January 2021Catherine de Medici, Poor Queen; the story of three in a marriage
16 December 2020How Our Royal Families have celebrated Christmas through the Ages
20 November 2020Galla Placidia: The Empress and the Fall of Rome
11 November 2020That Woman or The Duchesse of Style –Time to Reassess Wallace Simpson
29 October 2020Portraits of 20th Century Artists through the Lens of Jorge Lewinski
07 October 2020Paradise Lost and Restored - 400 years of garden design in Oxfordshire - The History of Garden Design through the lens of the Oxford Botanic Garden
23 September 2020The World of Graham Sutherland and John Piper
02 September 2020The Fate of Art in the Nazi Era
01 July 2020Powder and Poison: Cosmetics, Beauty and the Art of Portraiture
28 June 2020A Carpet Ride to Khiva – Exploring the Revival of 15 Century Timurid Carpet Design from Persian Illuminated Manuscripts
03 June 2020The History of Royal Parks, Public Parks and Bandstands
06 May 2020Jewellery, Fashion & Glamour
08 April 2020I got the Dustbowl Blues: Texas & Oklahoma Photography, Art & Music
04 March 2020The Creative Courtesan: The Art of High Class Prostitution in Renaissance Italy
05 February 2020A Tour of Big Ben
15 January 2020Breaking the Ice: Jackson Pollock and American Abstract Expressionism
13 November 2019Historic Graffiti – The Hidden Story of Hopes, Fears and Desires of a Nation
02 October 2019As Good as Gold, its significance and symbolism in the history of art
04 September 2019Seventeenth Century Cabinets & Dolls Houses in the Netherlands
03 July 2019She Died too Young – The Story of Joan Eardley
05 June 2019Brave New World – The Festival of Britain
08 May 2019The Wind in the Willows Revisited through its Illustrators
10 April 2019Historic Gardens of the Italian Lakes
06 March 2019Postcards from Other Places – Far and Near
06 February 2019Womens Suffrage: How Art and Design helped the cause

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