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27 October 2026Behind the Walls: Creativity, Visions and Horrors in Renaissance Italian ConventsLecture
29 September 2026Antony Gormley – a Body of WorkLecture
17 September 2026Whistler Exhibition at Tate BritainVisit
30 June 2026The Rebuilding of Ypres after its Total Destruction in the Great WarLecture
26 May 2026George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham – the Handsomest Man in 17th-century Europe - and his Patronage of the ArtsLecture
20 May 2026Romney Marsh ChurchesVisit
28 April 2026Cantiones Sacrae 1757 – the Lives and Music of Tallis and ByrdLecture
25 April 2026Evening Tour of Westminster Abbey with musicVisit
31 March 2026Keeping House for Bloomsbury - Grace Higgens of Charleston Lecture
24 February 2026Re-imagining the Nation – 19th-century Danish LandscapesLecture
27 January 2026Gateway to the World: Lisbon and the Art of EmpireLecture
09 December 2025Wassail Away!Lecture
25 November 2025The Wallace and Frick Collections and their link with KnoleLecture
28 October 2025Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomical MindfulnessLecture
16 October 2025Lincoln's Inn and Sir John Soane's MuseumVisit
30 September 2025The Queen Mother at the Castle of MeyLecture
24 June 2025The Healing Power of Plants - Why plant-derived treatments are not an alternative, instead they are the real thingLecture
27 May 2025Pompeii and Herculaneum: Reconstructing the Final DayLecture
29 April 2025A Photographic Odyssey: Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Captured on CameraLecture
23 April 2025Chiddingstone CastleVisit
25 March 2025The Livery Companies of The City of London - The Origins of the 'Great Twelve'Lecture
25 February 2025Priceless Peggy - Peggy GuggenheimLecture
28 January 2025How To Get Down From A Yak - Asian Nomadic TextilesLecture
10 December 2024A Dickens of a Christmas and God Bless us Every One!Lecture
26 November 2024Bauhaus: Idea and RealityLecture
29 October 2024Vincent Van Gogh - Madman or Genius?Lecture
26 September 2024Expressionists Exhibition at Tate ModernVisit
24 September 2024After Miss Jekyll - English Gardens of the late 20th and early 21st centuriesLecture
21 August 2024Evening Tour of Cranbrook MuseumVisit
25 June 2024British Travellers in Mexico - Lost Cities and Surreal WorldLecture
28 May 2024The Richest of Legacies: The British Colonial Buildings of IndiaLecture
22 May 2024Leonardslee Lakes and GardensVisit
06 May 2024ViennaTour
30 April 2024Oscar Wilde up closeLecture
28 March 2024Holbein Exhibition at The Queen's GalleryVisit
26 March 2024Delacroix's Liberty leading the People. Heroine or Harlot?Lecture
27 February 2024The Age of JazzLecture
30 January 2024Art in the Shadow of St Paul's CathedralLecture
12 December 2023Christmas backstage at Covent GardenLecture
28 November 2023The Graffiti & Street Art of Shoreditch & SpitalfieldsLecture
31 October 2023Dutch Still LifeLecture
26 September 2023Canterbury Cathedral through three livesLecture
19 September 2023Firle Place - Curator's TalkVisit
27 June 2023Peggy GuggenheimLecture
30 May 2023The Fantastical World of Hieronymous BoschLecture
15 May 2023Dutch Art TreasuresTour
25 April 2023The Greatest Art Patron in the World: Rudolf IILecture
28 March 2023Sri LankaLecture
28 February 2023Highlights of the Russell Coates MuseumLecture
31 January 2023The Glasgow Boys & Scottish WatercolouristsLecture
01 January 2023Earlier visitsVisit
13 December 2022FabergéLecture
29 November 2022Cave Paintings and Prehistoric CarvingsLecture
25 October 2022Leonardo Da VinciLecture
27 September 2022Gustav Klimt: Imperial Muralist Turned Radical PainterLecture
28 June 2022The Golden Age of Opera and Ballet in St. Petersburg 1890-1917Lecture
31 May 2022Aubrey BeardsleyLecture
17 May 2022Art DecoSpecial Event
26 April 2022The BorgiasLecture
29 March 2022Pots and Frocks – the world of Grayson PerryLecture
22 February 2022Field of the Cloth of GoldLecture
25 January 2022Who was Tutankhamun? Lecture
14 December 2021On Christmas NightLecture
30 November 2021Marathon PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATELecture
02 November 2021Treasures of Berlin Old and NewSpecial Event
26 October 2021Maritime ArtLecture
28 September 2021The use and role of colour in Garden DesignLecture
22 June 2021From Holbein to Byrd – Drawings, Paintings, Miniatures & MusicLecture
25 May 2021A brief story of WineLecture
27 April 2021Napoleon & His ArtistsLecture
23 March 2021Treasures of the Fan MuseumLecture
23 February 2021Artemesia GentileschiLecture
26 January 2021Moorish Architecture, the legacy of a vanished kingdomLecture
08 December 2020From Downton to Gatsby Jewellery Fashion & GlamourLecture
24 November 2020Raphael A Master in the making. 500th Anniversary of his deathLecture
10 November 2020The Golden Age of English and European FurnitureSpecial Event
27 October 2020The So Called Bayeux Tapestry Created in Canterbury for the Earl of KentLecture
22 September 2020Debo Mitford, Cavendish, Devonshire Duchess, Housewife 1920-2014Lecture
23 June 2020The Borgias. The most infamous family in History ?Lecture
26 May 2020Field of Cloth of Gold. 6,000 Englishmen in France for 18 days. How did they do it?Lecture
28 April 2020From Holbein to Byrd Drawings PaintingsMiniatures and MusicLecture
07 April 2020Mid-Eighteenth Century English Rococo SilverSpecial Event
24 March 2020Pots & Frocks The World of Grayson Perry from Essex Potter to Superstar National HeroLecture
25 February 2020The Silk Road & the Arts of ChinaLecture
28 January 2020Van GoghLecture
12 November 2019Venice, The Most Serene Republic: Art Books & ConventsSpecial Event
09 April 2019The Honourable East India Company & East-West Trade: Chintz, Chinese Export and Chinoiserie, 1600 – 1800Special Event
01 January 2015Previous Special Interest Days in 2015 – 2018Special Event
01 January 2013Previous ToursTour