These are the Study Days held in recent years:

  • May 2025 “Moorish Spain: history, architecture and material culture” by Ian Cockburn
  • Jan 2025 “Unravelling the Silk Road” by Chris Aslan
  • Sep 2024 “The Paintings Conservation Roadshow” by Sarah Cove
  • May 2024 “Tragedy and triumph: the story of polar exploration” by Mark Cottle
  • Jan 2024 “Sicilian Splendours, Rome and Africa” by Paul Roberts
  • Sep 2023 “William Hogarth: Materials and Morals” by Lars Tharp
  • May 2023 “New York! New York!” by Mary Alexander
  • Jan 2023 scheduled but cancelled “The Home Beautiful” by Joanna Banham
  • Sep 2022 “Graphic Icons of the C20” by Howard Smith
  • May 2022 “Raphael – Genius of the Renaissance” by Jo Walton
  • Jan 2022 “The Age of Augustus John : Inspiration and Revolution in British Art” by Dr David Boyd Haycock
  • Sep 2021 “The Riches of Islamic Art and Architecture” by Professor James Allan
  • May 2021 “Swedish Grace: A hundred years of Swedish Art and Design” by Anne Anderson
  • Jan 2021 “The British Enlightenment: science, exploration and industry in Eighteenth century painting” by Justin Reay
  • Nov 2020 “The Housekeeper’s Tale: The Women who really ran the English Country House”  by Tessa Boase
  • Jan 2020 “Can We Trust the Experts?”  by David Phillips
  • Sep 2019 “Backstage at the Opera”  by Simon Rees
  • May 2019 “Rivals and Radicals: Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson” by Jo Walton
  • Jan 2019 “Bankrolling the Renaissance: A History of the Medici Family”  by Douglas Skeggs
  • Oct 2018 “Painting on Light: a History of Stained Glass”  by Roger Rosewell
  • May 2018 “The Mysterious Language of Paintings”  by Val Woodgate
  • Feb 2018 “Secrets and Symbols of the Dutch Old Masters”  by Lynne Gibson
  • Oct 2017 “How 20th Century Art Shaped the Art of Today”  by Linda Smith
  • Mar 2017 “Russian Art: The Revolution in Art, and Art in Revolution”  by Rosamund Bartlett
  • Nov 2016 “The Art of Venice: the Lion of the Sea”  by Douglas Skeggs