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16 July 2026The Cullinan DiamondLecture
18 June 2026CHANGE OF LECTURE How Symphonies were born in a London pubLecture
21 May 2026Dame Laura Knight DBELecture
12 May 2026The Palaces & Art of BolognaVisit
16 April 2026The Woman Who Told Us Where to Go!Lecture
19 March 2026Charles Rennie MacintoshLecture
19 February 2026The History of American Art in 25 Iconic WorksLecture
15 January 2026Never Mind Quantitative Easing, Show us the BlingLecture
04 December 2025Pantomime: When the Fairy’s over 50Lecture
20 November 2025Turner and Constable: Romantic RIvalsLecture
16 October 2025Sixty Years On: Life in Britain as seen in 1960’s filmsLecture
18 September 2025Banksy - Fraud or GeniusLecture
17 July 2025Troy: The City in Art and MythLecture
29 June 2025The Historic Houses & Heritage of DevonVisit
19 June 2025Gilbert & Sullivan: Their Topsy Turvy WorldLecture
15 May 2025Cartoons & Contraptions: The Wonderful World of W. Heath Robinson Lecture
24 April 2025Travels with my TrowelLecture
20 March 2025John Singer Sargent and FashionLecture
20 February 2025The Road to Santiago de Compostela: Pilgrimage & SpectacleLecture
16 January 2025Atkinson Grimshaw – Master of MoonlightLecture
05 December 2024MonopolyLecture
21 November 2024Packing Up the Nation Saving London's Museums and Galleries in WWIILecture
17 October 2024The Architecture of Mughal India Palaces, Mosques, Gardens and MausoleumsLecture
19 September 2024Atkinson Grimshaw Master of Moonlight Lecture
18 July 2024Vivaldi in VeniceLecture
20 June 2024Women Artists in Britain An Exhibition at Tate Britain, 2024Lecture
16 May 2024James Tissot The Art, Life and Love of a Victorian PainterLecture
18 April 2024Celebrating the Centenary of Winnie-the-PoohLecture
21 March 2024The Dinosaur Sculptures of Crystal PalaceLecture
15 February 2024Modernist Design The Bauhaus and BeyondLecture
18 January 2024Discovering MacDonald Gill Architect, Artist and MapmakerLecture
07 December 2023From Tchaikovsky to Tin Pan Alley - Uplifting Music for ChristmasLecture
30 November 2023Tate BritainVisit
16 November 2023Punch, Pineapples and Pygmalion: A Short History of Covent GardenLecture
09 November 2023Cheam Walks from Whitehall (3)Visit
02 November 2023Cheam Walks from Whitehall (2)Visit
19 October 2023The Dark Side of the Boom: The Mass Faking of the Soviet Avant GardeLecture
12 October 2023Cheam Walks from WhitehallVisit
21 September 2023Antony Gormley: A Body of WorkLecture
06 September 2023Leighton HouseVisit
20 July 2023Cinema from the Rubble: The Post-War Politics of Ealing StudiosLecture
02 July 2023The Historic Houses & Heritage of Bristol Visit
22 June 2023Chelsea Physic GardenVisit
15 June 2023Five Men Behaving Badly A Really Grand Tour of KentLecture
18 May 2023The History of the City of London as told through its Stained GlassLecture
11 May 2023A Visit to Chiswick HouseVisit
27 April 2023Battersea Power Station and Lift 109Visit
13 April 2023The Power of PhotographyLecture
16 March 2023William HodgesLecture
16 February 2023Les Parisiennes: How Women Lived, Loved and Died in Paris from 1939-1949Lecture
19 January 2023"Lest we Forget" The Moving Story of Britain's War MemorialsLecture
01 December 2022A Very Ceremonial ChristmasLecture
17 November 2022How Napier, NZ, became the Art Deco Capital of the WorldLecture
25 October 2022Guided Tour of The Fan Museum, GreenwichVisit
20 October 2022Canal History and HeritageLecture
06 October 2022Ian Swankie - Guided Tour from Guildhall Art Gallery finishing at the Temple of MithrasVisit
28 September 2022Bermondsey and the Thames Riverside A walking tour with the popular (and entertaining} Andrew DaviesVisit
15 September 2022The Anatomy of Collecting - Collecting and Great Collectors Through HistoryLecture
21 July 2022Basingstoke and its Contribution to World CultureLecture
04 July 2022The Art & Craft of Birmingham and the West MidlandsVisit
16 June 2022"Wonderful Things!" - Tutankhamun's Tomb and TreasuresLecture
19 May 2022Artimisia Gentileschi - Her Life and Her ArtLecture
29 April 2022St Mary's House in Bramber, West SussexVisit
21 April 2022"Happy & Glorious" - Celebration of the Queen's 70th Anniversary of Accession to the Throne and her Coronation in 1953Lecture
17 March 2022Fashion, Fury and FeminismLecture
17 February 2022Bandstands - History, Decline, RevivalLecture
20 January 2022The Glamour Years - Jewellery & Fashion 1929-1959Lecture
02 December 2021In the Kingdom of SweetsLecture
18 November 2021The Journey of the MagiLecture
21 October 2021The Healing Power of PlantsLecture
16 September 2021Treasures of the Fan Museum, GreenwichLecture
15 July 2021Now You See It, Now You Don't - The Art of Visual DeceptionLecture
04 July 2021The Delights, History & Art of NorthumbriaVisit
17 June 2021The Field of the Cloth of Gold: 6,000 Englishmen in France for 18 days - How did they do it?Lecture
20 May 2021Great Railway StationsLecture
15 April 2021The English Country ChurchLecture
18 March 2021'All Done on Ginger Beer' - Lilian Baylis and the Old Vic TheatreLecture
18 February 2021A Load of Old BallsLecture
21 January 2021Heraldry of the City of London and its Livery CompaniesLecture
03 December 2020The Magic of PantomimeLecture
19 November 2020Pox and Pestilence - Art and the UnforgivingLecture
15 October 2020The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and the Architecture of Frank GehryLecture
17 September 2020Collecting & Collectors - The Antiques RoadshowLecture
16 July 2020Basingstoke and its Contribution to World CultureLecture
18 June 2020Jane Austen - Life, Letters and One or Two Early WorksLecture
21 May 2020Artemesia GentileschiLecture
16 April 2020Five Men Behaving BadlyLecture
19 March 2020The Glamour Years - Jewellery and Fashion 1929-1959Lecture
20 February 2020The Many Faces of William MorrisLecture
16 January 2020100 Years of Deception - Hoaxes and Swindlers in the 18thCLecture
05 December 2019The Inventors of ChristmasLecture
21 November 2019Zaha Hadid - Architectural SuperstarLecture
17 October 201920th Century Glass - New marketsLecture
19 September 2019Celebrating a Rich Legacy - Colonial architecture in IndiaLecture
18 July 2019What Really Happened on Easter IslandLecture
20 June 2019The Origins of the 'Tudor Rose'Lecture
16 May 2019Dazzling Dufy - invitation to a luminous feastLecture
18 April 2019The Art of the Steal - Nazi looting during World War IILecture
21 March 2019Painter of Northern Light - Krøyer and the Skagen Art ColonyLecture
21 February 2019Sir Christopher Wren and the City of London ChurchesLecture
17 January 2019From Bronzes to Banksy - an armchair tour of public art and street artLecture
24 April 2017Cheam DFAS trip to ScotlandTour