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16 September 2026Gilbert and Sullivan: Their Topsy-Turvy WorldLecture
01 July 2026Summer Event at Cwm Weeg GardenVisit
17 June 2026The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Art World RebelsLecture
20 May 2026The Stirling Prize: British Architecture's OscarsLecture
16 May 2026GCSE Art Competition & ExhibitionVisit
19 April 2026Tour of SuffolkVisit
15 April 2026Bruegel: The Seasons and The WorldLecture
22 March 2026MADAMA BUTTERFLY at Theatre Severn, ShrewsburyVisit
18 March 2026The Elgin MarblesLecture
10 March 2026The Romanovs: Tyrants and Martyrs of Imperial RussiaSpecial Event
18 February 2026An Ideal Partnership: Luytens & JekyllLecture
21 January 2026Renaissance Cassoni - Wedding Chests and The Art of Marriage in 15th Century FlorenceLecture
03 December 2025The Twelve Plants of ChristmasLecture
19 November 2025Becoming Jane - The Making of a Literary SuperstarLecture
30 October 2025Trailblazers: Women Artists in France 1770 - 1900Special Event
15 October 2025She Died Too Soon - A Study of Joan Eardley, an exceptional and original artist who said things that could only be said in paintLecture
25 September 2025The Silk Museum, MacclesfieldVisit
17 September 2025The Market for Antiques in the UK today - or Why No-one wants to Buy your Wardrobe Anymore!Lecture
10 September 2025Tea & Talk at St Peter's Church Cound- Doom Painting Appeal Visit
01 July 2025Summer Event at Vaynor ParkVisit
18 June 2025Ravenna - City of Mosaic and MarbleLecture
21 May 2025Making sense of Portraits in Country HousesLecture
13 May 2025Private Tour of Combermere AbbeyVisit
28 April 2025Tour to Kent & Sussex 2025Visit
16 April 2025Not All Bagpipes Are ScottishLecture
10 April 2025DRAPERS HALL SHREWSBURY Talk, Tour and LunchVisit
26 March 2025August Rodin and 19th Century SculptureLecture
11 March 2025The Housekeeper's Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country HouseSpecial Event
19 February 2025African - Art, Craft or Curio?Lecture
23 January 2025The Soldiers of Shropshire Museum at Shrewsbury CastleVisit
22 January 2025Faber & Faber - 90 Years of Excellence in Cover DesignLecture
04 December 2024An Actor's Life for Me?Lecture
20 November 2024The (Other) Sack of Rome: an Investigation into an Extraordinary Moment of Renaissance HistoryLecture
14 November 2024Tour of Shrewsbury Flaxmill MaltingsVisit
31 October 2024The Houses of Parliament: 1000 Years of a British IconSpecial Event
16 October 2024Papers from Peking: Chinese Wallpapers 1700-2000Lecture
18 September 2024L S Lowry: A Visionary ArtistLecture
13 September 2024Summer Event at Hawkstone HallVisit
20 August 2024Visit to two Artists Studios in Mid Wales Visit
27 July 2024Tour of The Mount - Darwin's Childhood HomeVisit
08 July 2024Report on our holiday in Somerset in June 2024 Visit
25 June 2024Private Tour of Arbury Hall and Astley Church Nuneaton, WarwickshireVisit
19 June 2024The World’s Greatest Paintings: 200 Years of The National GalleryLecture
03 June 2024Somerset Bath & Wells Tour 3rd-6th June 2024 with Success ToursVisit
15 May 2024Elizabethan Houses and the Transformation of EnglandLecture
17 April 2024The Athletic Aesthetic - Your Arts Society Guide to the 2024 OlympicsLecture
04 April 2024A Private Tour of The Art Collection at Weston ParkVisit
20 March 2024Bauhaus: Idea and RealityLecture
07 March 2024The British Empire and Imperial India: Images, Architecture and ArtsSpecial Event
21 February 2024And So to Vauxhall: Music and Culture at the Celebrated GardensLecture
17 January 2024Art and Life in Santa Fe, New MexicoLecture
06 December 2023Christmas in Bach's Leipzig: The Christmas Oratorio 1734/5Lecture
15 November 2023Micromosaics: Souvenirs of the Grand Tour from Rome 1770-1870Lecture
18 October 2023Art Behind Bars - The Role of the Arts in Breaking the Cycle of Crime, Prison and Re-offendingLecture
05 October 2023A Visit to The New Art Gallery, Walsall. Visit
20 September 2023O Paxton! How Chatsworth's Victorian Genius, Joseph Paxton, Came to Put the World Under GlassLecture
21 June 2023The Life and Works of Sir Alfred MunningsLecture
12 June 2023Report on Summer Event to Bryngwyn Hall 11th June 2023 Visit
11 June 2023Summer Event Visit to Bryngwyn HallVisit
20 May 2023A Visit to Abberley Hall Visit
17 May 2023Painting is Dead - Long Live Photography!Lecture
23 April 2023Report on Visit to Glasgow and its Art Treasures. Visit
19 April 2023The Chair - 2000 Years of Sitting DownLecture
29 March 2023Sir Joseph Banks and the Fine Art of British Exploration 1768-1836Special Event
15 March 2023Morocco Blues - Why and How Morocco Got Painted BlueLecture
15 February 2023Renaissance Marriage and MythologyLecture
18 January 2023Drawn From Life: The Extraordinary Art and Life of Augustus JohnLecture
10 January 2023A Second Visit to Acton Scott Hall Visit
07 December 2022Nothing says Christmas like an Axe Fight: Courtly Spectacles of the Renaissance.Lecture
23 November 2022A Visit to Acton Scott HallVisit
16 November 2022From Bronzes to Banksy - An Armchair Tour of Public Art and Street ArtLecture
19 October 2022The Treasures of the Far CathayLecture
21 September 2022Three Great Families and Their Gardens. A History of the Astors, the Rothschilds and the Sackville-WestsLecture
15 June 2022Chardin and the Still LifeLecture
18 May 2022Burned Bombed Bulldozed: Britains Lost HousesLecture
27 April 2022Treasures of the Silk Road. The Art of Asia and Beyond.Special Event
20 April 2022Shock! Horror! Probe! The Art & Artifice of Fleet Street- A Newspaper Story in PicturesLecture
16 March 2022The Camden Town GroupLecture
16 February 2022Twenty- First Century Gardens: Developments in Britain and Around The worldLecture
19 January 2022Misshapen Pearl- An Overview of The Music of The Baroque EraLecture
08 December 2021Agatha Christie: Queen of CrimeLecture
17 November 2021Making a Stand: Sporting Architecture, list it or lose itLecture
20 October 2021The Glamour Years. Jewellery and Fashion 1929 to 1959 Lecture
15 September 2021Turner vs Constable: The Great British Paint offLecture
16 June 2021The Frick Collection, New York, The Wallace Collection, London and the Knole ConnectionLecture
19 May 2021The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Colour in English Garden Design- Why Gardening can Rank as a Fine ArtLecture
13 May 2021The Genius of BeethovenLecture
21 April 2021Carmen in SpainLecture
15 April 2021Modern Art and The Old MastersLecture
17 March 2021Foreigner's in London 1520-1677: The Artists who changed the course of British ArtLecture
11 March 2021The Elgin MarblesLecture
17 February 2021Homer's World of Heroes: Greece in the Mycenaean AgeLecture
11 February 2021The Borgias The Most Infamous Family in HistoryLecture
03 February 2021'Walking' Tour of LondonVisit
03 February 2021The Architecture of Royal BuildingsLecture
20 January 2021The Glasgow Boys, The Glasgow Girls, The Scottish Colourists & The French Connection Lecture
12 January 2021Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings – past, present and futureLecture
06 January 2021The Queen's Personal JewelleryLecture
02 December 2020Three Wise Men - Gold, Frankincense & Myrrh - The Traditions of the MagiLecture
18 November 2020Heavenly Bodies:The Pre-Raphaelites & Stained GlassLecture
04 November 2020Treasurers of the Silk RoadSpecial Event
21 October 2020The Art of Atonement:How Germany commemorated the Second World WarLecture
16 September 2020The Queen of Instruments: The Lute within Old Master PaintingsLecture
27 February 2020Visit to Aston Hall and Soho House BirminghamVisit
19 February 2020Imperial Purple To Denim Blue: The Colourful History of TextilesLecture
22 January 2020The Art & Science of the Lunar SocietyLecture
04 December 2019Giles: His life, Times and cartoons. 11am at the Sovereign Suite, Shrewsbury Town Football Club.Lecture
20 November 2019The Magic of Cristobal Balenciaga, Master of San SebastianLecture
12 November 2019Visit to Barber Institute and Birmingham HippodromeVisit
16 October 2019Picasso and his WomenLecture
25 September 2019Tour of Spain September/October 2019Visit
18 September 2019Anton Gaudi:Catalonia ModernismeLecture
31 July 2019A Visit to Herefordshire Visit
19 June 2019Carmen In SevilleLecture
06 June 2019Visit to Morton Hall and Coughton Court Visit
20 May 2019A Visit to the North East. Visit
15 May 2019Salvador Dali and SurrealismLecture
17 April 2019The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters: Goya, A Social and Political CriticLecture
04 April 2019An Architectural Walking Tour in Manchester.Visit
20 March 2019The Sword and the Staff: art and architecture on the Pilgrim Way to Santiago de CompostelaLecture
13 March 2019The Medici Study DaySpecial Event
28 February 2019Visit to Brampton Bryan Hall nr Knighton.Visit
21 February 2019Birmingham Royal Ballet. Beauty and the Beast. Matinee Performance. Visit
20 February 2019Romans, Christians and Moors: Andalucia and its Golden AgeLecture
16 January 2019Velazquez and the Golden Age of Spanish PaintingLecture
05 December 2018Art inspired by wineLecture
21 November 2018A Potted History of BritainLecture
17 October 2018The War to End All Wars - The Art of the First World WarLecture
11 October 2018A Visit to Coventry. The New Cathedral, The Herbert Gallery and The GuildhallVisit
19 September 2018The Whole Art of the BookLecture
31 July 2018A Visit to Hatton Grange. Tuesday 31st July 2018 Visit
28 June 2018Visit to Great Witley and Hanbury Hall. Worcs Visit
20 June 2018Birds, Beasts and Box: The Art of TopiaryLecture
16 May 2018Let there be LightLecture
06 May 2018A Visit to NorfolkVisit
18 April 2018The Conservation of Paintings, Polychrome Sculpture and FramesLecture
21 March 2018Northern Lights: Scandinavian Design in the Twentieth CenturyLecture
21 February 2018Gainsborough in Bath: High Society and the Bath SeasonLecture
24 January 2018Arts Society Shrewsbury - Day of Special InterestSpecial Event
17 January 2018Henry Moore: A Revolution in British SculptureLecture
06 December 2017Charles Dickens, Conjurer: the playbills of Victorian showmen Lecture
15 November 2017Legends of Czech GlassLecture
18 October 2017Titian – The First Modern ArtistLecture
17 October 2017A West Midlands Area event - 'Head, Hand and Heart: the Birmingham Group of Artist-craftsmen'Special Event
22 September 2017Venice Trip - September 2017Visit
20 September 2017The Romantic Spirit: music and the arts of early 19th century GermanyLecture
21 June 2017Ultimate Power Dressing: Chinese Imperial Costume and Textiles (Qing Dynasty: 1644-1911)Lecture
17 May 2017The Impressionist Landscape Lecture
19 April 2017From Wild Beasts to Pickled Sharks - Modern art movements of the 20th CenturyLecture
15 March 2017A Thousand Years of History: Medieval Cathedrals as Time MachinesLecture
01 March 2017Jewellery from the 16th - 20th CenturySpecial Event
15 February 2017Ancient Faces: Flinders Petrie and the Mummy Portraits of Roman EgyptLecture
18 January 2017'Mars and the Muses': The Renaissance Art of ArmourLecture
07 December 2016Now you see it, now you don’t! The Art of Visual DeceptionLecture
16 November 2016German and Netherlandish GlassLecture
19 October 2016Brussels: Cradle of Art NouveauLecture
18 October 2016The Art and Science of the Lunar SocietySpecial Event
21 September 2016Dutch & the Low Countries Influence on English silver Lecture
15 June 2016From Veneering to Marquetry Lecture
18 May 2016Tulipomania: the Tulip, a decorative flower on European and Asian ceramicsLecture
20 April 2016Two Baroque Protestants: Handel and RembrandtLecture
22 March 2016West Midlands Area Special Interest Day - Landscape Design and the Picturesque in ArtSpecial Event
16 March 2016Home Sweet Home: The Domestic Interior in 17thC Dutch painting. Lecture
17 February 2016The Palaces of William and Mary: Het Loo & Hampton Court Lecture
10 February 2016SDFAS Special Interest Day - Connoisseurs' ConundrumsSpecial Event
20 January 2016Beautiful, Beastly, Bizarre: the Art of Hieronymus BoschLecture
09 December 2015The Spectacular Gold and Silverware Collection of King George IVLecture
18 November 2015Soft Angelic Whispers – the Hidden History of the English Medieval HarpLecture
28 October 2015The Art and Meaning of MapsLecture
20 October 2015West Midlands Area Special Interest Day - Wedgwood: a New PerspectiveSpecial Event
16 September 2015A Crisis of Brilliance: Four Young Artists & the Great WarLecture
17 June 2015Gold of the Gods: Treasures of South America & the Search for El DoradoLecture
20 May 2015Man Ray the Magic ManLecture
15 April 2015Frank Lloyd WrightLecture
18 March 2015Pomp and Grandeur: the Gardens of the Stuart Court Lecture
11 February 2015Music inspired by Paintings and Paintings Inspired by MusicSpecial Event
12 February 2014Weston ParkSpecial Event
06 February 2013Art DecoSpecial Event