Please click here for further details of this year’s lectures, here for further details of visits and here for further details of study days.
| 2025 | |
| 11 Sep | Visit: Wood Engravers exhibition, North Wall Gallery – talk and guided visit, Oxford (11am) |
| 17 Sep | AGM & Lecture – Byzantium Justinian & Theodora and the art they inspired |
| 24 Sep | Study Day – Caravaggio and his contemporaries [sold out] |
| 8 Oct | Visit: Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham (11:15) |
| 15 Oct | Lecture – Charles Rennie Mackintosh |
| 22 Oct | Coffee morning: 10:30am, Cosy Club, 20 Cornmarket Street |
| 4,6,10,24,26 Nov | Visit: walk – Oxford’s role in WWII |
| 12 Nov | Lecture – Mixed doubles |
| 19 Nov | Coffee morning: 10:30am, Cosy Club, 20 Cornmarket Street |
| 6 Dec | Visit: Oxford Printworkers’ Co-operative Exhibition – talk and demonstration (2pm) |
| 10 Dec | Lecture – How magicians are seen in paintings, prints and cartoons |
| 2026 | |
| 13 Jan | Study Day – Photography: the big picture |
| 14 Jan | Lecture – The three great game changers of 19th century opera |
| 21 Jan | New Year’s lunch: 12:30pm, Cosy Club, 20 Cornmarket Street. Tickets are available from 10:00 on Thurs 27 Nov. To book (cost £32) click here |
| 11 Feb | Lecture – The Incas and their predecessors seen through their art and textiles |
| 23,24,25 Feb | Visit: walk – three East Oxford churches (11am) |
| 2-10 Mar | Residential visit: guided tour – Sicilian splendours, the art, culture and history of Sicily |
| 11 Mar | Lecture – The art of May and William Morris |
| 25 Mar | Visit: Lydiard Park, Swindon |
| 15 Apr | Lecture – Hacksilver: decorative arts of the Viking age |
| 13 May | Lecture – The birth of abstraction: Wassily Kandinsky |
| 19 May | Visit: guided tour of Rousham House, Heyford (2pm) |
| 22 May | Study Day – Istanbul: City of Faith, Power and Beauty |
| 10 Jun | Lecture – Constable’s Treslove portraits rediscovered |
| 16 Sep | AGM & Lecture – Spanish art in the age of Velazquez |