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Please click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for further details of this year’s lectures, here<\/strong><\/span><\/a> for further details of visits and here<\/strong><\/a> for further details of study days.<\/p>\n

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2025<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11 Sep<\/strong><\/td>\nVisit: <\/strong><\/span>Wood Engravers exhibition, North Wall Gallery – talk and guided visit, Oxford (11am)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17 Sep<\/strong><\/td>\nAGM & Lecture<\/strong><\/span> – Byzantium Justinian & Theodora and the art they inspired<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24 Sep<\/strong><\/td>\nStudy Day<\/strong> – Caravaggio and his contemporaries [sold out]<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8 Oct<\/strong><\/td>\nVisit: <\/strong><\/span>Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham (11:15)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 Oct<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – Charles Rennie Mackintosh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22 Oct<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee morning:<\/strong><\/span> 10:30am, Cosy Club, 20 Cornmarket Street<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4,6,10,24,26 Nov<\/strong><\/td>\nVisit: <\/strong><\/span>walk – Oxford’s role in WWII<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12 Nov<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – Mixed doubles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19 Nov<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee morning:<\/strong><\/span> 10:30am, Cosy Club, 20 Cornmarket Street<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6 Dec<\/strong><\/td>\nVisit: <\/strong><\/span>Oxford Printworkers’ Co-operative Exhibition – talk and demonstration (2pm)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 Dec<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – How magicians are seen in paintings, prints and cartoons<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2026<\/span><\/i><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13 Jan<\/strong><\/td>\nStudy Day<\/strong> – Photography: the big picture<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14 Jan<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – The three great game changers of 19th century opera<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21 Jan<\/strong><\/td>\nNew Year’s lunch:<\/strong><\/span> 12:30pm, Cosy Club, 20 Cornmarket Street. To book (cost \u00a332) click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11 Feb<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – The Incas and their predecessors seen through their art and textiles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18 Feb<\/strong><\/td>\nCoffee morning:<\/strong><\/span> 10:30am, Cosy Club, 20 Cornmarket Street<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23,24,25 Feb<\/strong><\/td>\nVisit: <\/strong><\/span>guided tour – two East Oxford churches (11am)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2-10 Mar<\/strong><\/td>\nResidential visit: <\/strong><\/span>guided tour – Sicilian splendours, the art, culture and history of Sicily<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11 Mar<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – The art of May and William Morris<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25 Mar<\/strong><\/td>\nVisit: <\/strong><\/span>Lydiard Park, Swindon (all day)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15 Apr<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – Hacksilver: decorative arts of the Viking age<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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29 Apr, 5pm<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – The Taj Mahal (NB this lecture is via Zoom online)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13 May<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – The birth of abstraction: Wassily Kandinsky<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19 May<\/strong><\/td>\nVisit: <\/strong><\/span>guided tour of Rousham House, Heyford (2pm)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22 May<\/strong><\/td>\nStudy Day<\/strong> – Istanbul: city of faith, power and beauty<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10 Jun<\/strong><\/td>\nLecture<\/strong><\/span> – Constable’s Treslove portraits rediscovered<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16 Sep<\/strong><\/td>\nAGM & Lecture<\/strong><\/span> – Spanish art in the age of Velazquez<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
26-28 Oct<\/strong><\/td>\nVisit: <\/strong><\/span>A trip to Brighton, Charleston and to see The Marriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne has been arranged with Tailored Travel<\/td>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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