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.

2024
13 Sep Visit: Wood Engravers exhibition, North Wall Gallery – talk and guided visit, Oxford (2pm)
18 Sep AGM & Lecture – Jewel of the Crown: Sainte-Chapelle in Paris
25 Sep Study Day – paintings conservation roadshow
2 Oct Lecture – Sumptuous Veronese: the depiction of luxury goods in 17th Century Venice
24 Oct Visit: Cookham Brotherhood exhibition – guided tour and walk (10:30)
5 Nov Visit: Eurydice – Jermyn Street Theatre, London (3pm)
13 Nov Lecture – The Shakers of North America: their beliefs, architecture and artefacts
21,26,28 Nov Walk: Literary Oxford, led by Victoria Bentata
6 Dec Visit: Oxford Printworkers’ Co-operative Exhibition – talk and demonstration, Oxford
11 Dec Lecture – A very British art form: the story of pantomime (“oh yes it is!”)
2025
8 Jan Lecture – ‘Les trois grandes dames d’Impressionisme’: Bracquemond, Cassatt and Morisot
17 Jan Study Day – Unravelling the Silk Road
27 or 28 Jan Visit: Royal Albert Hall visit and tour, London
12 Feb Lecture – Trees in art
18 Feb Visit: Coventry Cathedral tour
26 Feb Visit: Cinderella – Royal Ballet, Birmingham matinee
12 Mar Lecture – Joy and energy in the unique music of Latin-American Baroque
20 Mar Visit: Shotover House tour
9 Apr Lecture – Seeking essence: primitivism
18 Apr Visit: Henry Moore House & Gallery, Hertfordshire
7 May Study Day – Moorish Spain: history, architecture and material culture
14 May Lecture – Handel and Rembrandt: two baroque protestants
19-23 May Residential visit: guided visits [by coach] to Liverpool and area
11 Jun Lecture – The art and craft of John Piper
17 Sep AGM & Lecture – The emperor and the prostitute: Byzantium, Justinian and Theodora
tbc Sep Study Day – details tbc