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18 June 2026Women behind the lens: outstanding female photographers and their contribution to the art of photographyLecture
21 May 2026The Ming Dynasty: Power, Craftsmanship, and Tea in China’s empire of brightnessLecture
14 May 2026Coach Trip to Elton Hall: historic house and award-winning gardensVisit
30 April 2026Antony Gormley a body of workLecture
22 April 2026Books as Art — From Manuscript to Modernism; a private tour of the Wren LibraryVisit
01 April 2026Treasures of St John's College Old Library: a guided visitVisit
26 March 2026Study Day - From Levina to Artemisia: Women Artists and Patrons across Renaissance EuropeSpecial Event
19 March 2026How to get down from a YakLecture
06 March 2026Visit to Gainsborough's House, SudburyVisit
19 February 2026Introducing the Scottish ColouristsLecture
29 January 2026Let the Games Begin! The Cotswold Olympics ReboundLecture
22 January 2026Visit to The Sleepers ExhibitionVisit
05 December 2025A Tour of The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, CambridgeVisit
04 December 2025Nicholas Reed The Art and Wit of Winston Churchill and Noel CowardLecture
20 November 2025Study Day - The Second Sex: A Journey Into the lives of Italian Renaissance WomenSpecial Event
13 November 2025Tudor Liveliness.Lecture
07 November 2025Ely Cathedral Tour and a Tour of the Stained Glass Museum Visit
16 October 2025The Hamilton Kerr Institute and its role in student trainingLecture
01 July 2025A Visit to the Hamilton Kerr InstituteVisit
19 June 2025Looking through art: Johannes Vermeer and the camera obscura   Lecture
19 May 2025Dresden Jewel of SaxonyVisit
15 May 2025William Blake: Poet, printer, prophet and much misunderstoodLecture
24 April 2025Visit to the Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge: A Mini Grand TourVisit
17 April 2025British Art Deco buildings Lecture
27 March 2025Study Day Crossing The Pond: The Art of Going Abstract - New York to London in the mid 20th CenturySpecial Event
13 March 2025The Post War Textile Visionaries of Modern ArtLecture
27 February 2025The Women’s Art Collection: Conversation Not Spectacle: A Guided Tour of the Exhibition Visit
13 February 2025Shinto ShrinesLecture
28 January 2025The Architecture and Treasures of the British LibraryVisit
23 January 2025Untouchable Art the rise of NFT and speculation in artLecture
11 December 2024The Art of Stained Glass: a Guided Tour of Arts and Crafts Religious Stained Glass In CambridgeVisit
05 December 2024Art of Stained Glass Lecture
21 November 2024Les Trois Grandes Dames’ of Impressionism: Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt and Berthe MorisotSpecial Event
14 November 2024Conducted tour of the Monopoly boardLecture
17 October 2024A Holiday in ProvenceVisit
10 October 2024The inside story - stories behind the most intriguing cases of Nazi looted Art.Lecture
04 October 2024A guided tour of Anglesey Abbey's garden sculpturesVisit
29 September 2024An Art Deco day out in LondonVisit
12 September 2024The Mallory Exhibition at Magdalene CollegeVisit
21 July 2024A visit to the King's Lynn Art FestivalVisit
13 June 2024The art of Winnie-the-PoohLecture
22 May 2024Lullinstoe Castle and World GardenVisit
09 May 2024Great lengths - On the art and architecture of historic swimming pools and lidosLecture
23 April 2024Wren Library VisitVisit
21 April 2024Coach trip to Leighton House, Holland Park and the London Design Museum with Guide Andrew DaviesVisit
18 April 2024Hogarth at the hustings: The election entertainment series and the birth of political satire - Lecture
21 March 2024Seafaring: Art and Life at Sea from Turner until TodaySpecial Event
14 March 2024A visit to Britain’s Bayeux Tapestry, The Reading Museum and the Abbey QuarterVisit
07 March 2024The Bayeux tapestry: 950 years of intrigue, propaganda and spin Lecture
08 February 2024Caravaggio Lecture
11 January 2024The loose and airy, lightness of flowers: Grinling Gibbons and his carvings in wood Lecture
18 December 2023A tour of "Spitting Image: A Controversial History" by its curatorVisit
07 December 2023Pilgrimage to St Catherine’s Monastery in Mount Sinai Lecture
23 November 2023Special Interest Days - Spirit of Place: Artists and the British LandscapeSpecial Event
09 November 2023The kingdom in the sun: SicilyLecture
07 November 2023Cycles of influence: art shaping art - An Exhibition by Tess RecordonVisit
30 October 2023Magnificent Madrid - Paintings and Palaces - Bookings have closed.Visit
12 October 2023Sir Christopher WrenLecture
29 September 2023Sir Christopher Wren in Cambridge - a walking tour - Fully BookedVisit
26 September 2023A walking tour of Kings Cross and St Pancras with Guide, Andrew Davies - This Tour is FULLY BOOKEDVisit
11 July 2023A visit to Althorp Estate and Northampton Museum and Gallery (Shoe Collection)Visit
08 June 2023Thomas Heatherwick: A modern Leonardo?Lecture
11 May 2023The Ship Burial at Sutton HooLecture
24 April 2023A guided walking tour of historical Duxford village, 2 church visits, and an optional lunch at the delicious Cafe 19Visit
13 April 2023Frida Kahlo – A life in Art Lecture
29 March 2023Magnificent Madrid - Paintings and PalacesVisit
23 March 2023Singing in Secret: William Byrd, Queen Elizabeth and Worship under WrapsSpecial Event
09 March 2023Lecture CHANGEDLecture
20 February 2023A Visit to Clare Hall and Robin Stemp's exhibition "Light. Time. SpaceVisit
09 February 2023Shoes in Art Lecture
12 January 2023The Story of Indian Modern ArtLecture
16 December 2022New Visit - Christmas magic at the Wimpole EstateVisit
08 December 2022Nothing Says Christmas Like an Axe Fight: Courtly Spectacles of the RenaissanceLecture
24 November 2022A guided visit to Darwin in Conversation- The endlessly curious life and letters of Charles Darwin at the University LibraryVisit
10 November 2022The Housekeeper’s Tale: The Women Who Really Ran the English Country HouseSpecial Event
03 November 2022The Art of the CartoonistLecture
06 October 2022The Mystery of Holbein’s Ambassadors - Anthony RussellLecture
30 September 2022Visit to Magdelene CollegeVisit
09 June 2022A Truly Cultured Woman is as Rare as the Phoenix: The Life and Work of Isabella D’Este Lecture
17 May 2022The Art and Heart of Leonardo - artistic anatomy then and nowVisit
12 May 2022Mad Men and Artists: How the Advertising Industry Exploited Fine ArtLecture
25 April 2022Holiday to the Netherlands Visit
21 April 2022Joaquin Sorolla : Painter of LightLecture
13 April 2022A visit to Magdelene College's exhibition: Fragile Planet - Watercolour Journeys into Wild PlacesVisit
07 April 2022A Visit to Kettle's Yard and the Ai Weiwei Exhibition "The Liberty of Doubt"Visit
25 March 2022Samurai History and Legend - University LibraryVisit
24 March 2022Great Tarts In Art: High Culture and The Oldest ProfessionSpecial Event
10 March 2022Aubrey BeardsleyLecture
20 February 2022Ghost Stories and Libations at All Saints' Church Cambridge CANCELLEDVisit
10 February 2022Powder and Poison: Cosmetics, Beauty & Art of Portraiture Lecture
14 January 2022A Visit to the Cardozo Kindersley Workshop Cambridge on 13 January 2022Visit
13 January 2022Thinking Big - Ups and Downs of the London Coliseum: London’s Largest TheatreLecture
09 December 2021The Annunciation in ArtLecture
26 November 2021A Visit to the University Library ExhibitionVisit
11 November 2021Smoke, Mirrors and Sanctity : Tudor Patronage and Art as PropagandaSpecial Event
04 November 2021Proliferation of Patterns: Wallpapers 1920-2000 -Lecture
31 October 2021Visit to All Saints' Church Cambridge. Concert, wine reception and tourVisit
07 October 2021Le Duc de Berry Lecture
22 June 2021Walking Tour King's College GardensVisit
17 June 2021Edith Durham’s bold Edwardian collection of beautiful Balkan thingsLecture
08 June 2021We Do Like to be Beside the Seaside. TAS GrantaLecture
20 May 2021As Good as Gold - A special lecture in Celebration of the Arts Society Cambridge's Golden anniversaryLecture
11 May 2021A Brief Story of Wine. TAS GrantaLecture
29 April 2021“Undressing Antiques” - A persuasive introduction to buying antiques and integrating and using them in today’s homesLecture
20 April 2021British Studio Pottery – A concise History. TAS GrantaLecture
01 April 2021150 years of London Underground DesignLecture
18 March 2021Cultural Revolution in the Heart of Europe : Art and Culture A fascinating journey together through Central EuropeSpecial Event
09 March 2021The Age of Jazz from its beginnings through to the outbreak of World War II. TAS GrantaLecture
07 March 2021Virtual Visit to Cambridge's David Parr HouseVisit
04 March 2021Making Visions: the Jewellery of Artist Charles RickettsLecture
20 February 2021Vrtual visit to Cambridge’s Danish QuarterVisit
11 February 2021Turner vs Constable: The Great British Paint-OffLecture
09 February 2021Raphael of Urbino, Artist and Architect. -- TAS GrantaLecture
14 January 2021Pots and Frocks – the world of Grayson Perry From Essex punk potter to superstar national treasureLecture
12 January 2021The Art and Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. -- TAS GrantaLecture
10 December 2020Messenger or Missile? Angels' glad tidings, doom, gloom or perditionLecture
08 December 2020James Gillray, Caterpillar on the Green Leaf of ReputationLecture
12 November 2020"Decoding Dress Fashion and Fantasy in C17th Art" - Now Fully BookedSpecial Event
05 November 2020The Studio-Houses of the Holland Park CircleLecture
08 October 2020Cleopatra: 'The Most Womanly of Women, and the Most Queenly of Queens'Lecture
27 August 2020Hobson's ConduitLecture
06 August 2020The Royal YachtsLecture
04 June 2020Mad Men and Artists: How the Advertising Industry Exploited Fine ArtLecture
07 May 2020Powder and Poison: Cosmetics, Beauty and the Art of PortraitureLecture
23 April 2020CANCELLED A day out in NewmarketVisit
09 April 2020A Proliferation of Pattern and Wallpapers 1920–2000Lecture
19 March 2020Smoke, Mirrors and Sanctity: Tudor Patronage and Art as PropagandaSpecial Event
17 March 2020CANCELLED The University of Cambridge Library TourVisit
12 March 2020The Silk Road and the Arts of ChinaLecture
20 February 2020“So They Do Cook After All!” Ravilious, Bawden and the Great Bardfield ArtistsLecture
30 January 2020Through a Glass Darkly: A Study of Glass through the Eyes of the ArtistLecture
09 January 2020Packing up the NationLecture
05 December 2019From Downton to Gatsby, Jewellery and Fashion 1890–1929Lecture
27 November 2019A Talk and tour of the Fitzwilliam Museum’s major exhibition: “Feast and Fast”Visit
14 November 2019The Art of Snow and Ice: How Artists Transformed the Winter LandscapeLecture
07 November 2019William Morris, the Man Behind the Famous Floral DesignsSpecial Event
04 November 2019 Visit to the Hamilton Kerr InstituteVisit
12 October 2019Area Visit to Eastbourne and GlyndebourneVisit
10 October 2019‘Becoming a Conservator’ – The Hamilton Kerr Institute and Educating the Next Generation of Paintings ConservatorsLecture
20 June 2019Cottesbrooke Hall and GardensVisit
13 June 2019A Passion for FashionLecture
09 May 2019Dame Zaha HadidLecture
18 April 2019The Guggenheims: a Dynasty of Art CollectorsLecture
21 March 2019Looking at Me, Looking at YouSpecial Event
07 March 2019Eileen Gray, an Irish RebelLecture
04 March 2019The Inner Workings of CheffinsVisit
07 February 2019Same Old ... Same NewLecture
24 January 2019Revealing the Beauty of Nature: the Landscape Art of Andy GoldsworthyLecture
10 January 2019The Other Side: Counter MemorialsLecture
12 December 2018A Pleasing Terror Two Ghost Stories by M R James • Performed by R M Lloyd ParryVisit
06 December 2018From Garbo to Garland: The Magical Art of HollywoodLecture
15 November 2018The VikingsSpecial Event
08 November 2018The Country House Library: A grand Tour Lecture
18 October 2018A Visit to Henry Moore's StudioVisit
11 October 2018The Magnificent Maya – Facts and Fantasy Lecture
25 September 2018CANCELLED A visit to All Saints Church and Jesus College. Tuesday, 25th September 2018Visit
21 June 2018College Gardens Walking Tour and Champagne Lunch Thursday, 21 June, 2018 Visit
14 June 2018The Promenade des Anglais: Artists in Nice Lecture
17 May 2018The Art and Culture of Fin-de-Siècle ViennaLecture
25 April 2018Jane Austen at Home...a one woman playVisit
19 April 2018Basingstoke and its Contribution to World CultureLecture
22 March 2018India from Three AnglesSpecial Event
15 March 2018The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl Fabergé before the RevolutionLecture
22 February 2018Let There be Light Lecture
01 February 2018Rachel WhitereadLecture
18 January 2018Scandinavia: Art and Design c. 1880-1950 Lecture
14 December 2017Gala Evening at the Barrandov Opera Thursday 14th December 2017 Visit
30 November 2017How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art Lecture
23 November 2017A Day in London and a Wonderful Christmas Lights TourVisit
16 November 2017Backstage at the OperaSpecial Event
09 November 2017The Most Infamous Family in History: the BorgiasLecture
12 October 2017DICKENS’ LONDON: a walking tour, Italian lunch, the Dickens and Foundling Museums. Visit
05 October 2017Artists and Espionage: the Lawn Road Flats NW3Lecture
29 September 2017The Bloomsbury Group, Cambridge College Years, a Walking Tour in Cambridge.Visit
15 June 2017When Britain Clicked: Fab Photographs from the Swinging SixtiesLecture
01 June 2017Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, and the Warner Textile Archive , BraintreeVisit
18 May 2017The Extraordinary Life of Misia Sert "Queen of Paris"Lecture
23 April 2017Liverpool - our 2017 VisitVisit
13 April 2017A View from the Plinth: a Review of Contemporary Public SculptureLecture
30 March 2017Churches in the East Anglian Broads with John VigarVisit
16 March 2017Domes and Minarets: Mosques of the Islamic WorldLecture
09 March 2017The Houses of Parliament - Burning, Building and BombingSpecial Event
23 February 2017The Parker LibraryLecture
20 February 2017A Day in Greenwich Visit
02 February 2017Introduction to Ice Age ArtLecture
19 January 2017Forty Shades of Green: Gardening in Ireland, Past and PresentLecture
12 December 2016Christmas in the Colleges, Corpus and Gonville and Caius Visit
01 December 2016Christmas Dinner: from EdwardI to Edward VIILecture
17 November 2016From Leonardo to You - The History and Art of ScienceSpecial Event
10 November 2016Cornelia ParkerLecture
18 October 2016Kenwood HouseVisit
06 October 2016Edwardian Opulence: The Portraiture of John Singer SargentLecture
14 July 2016NADFAS East Anglia Area Special Interest DaySpecial Event
16 June 2016Dumfries House: Saved for the NationLecture
09 June 2016Compton Verney and Hidcote Manor Garden - Change to ItineraryVisit
19 May 2016Behind the Scenes, Curating the Art GalleryLecture
14 April 2016The Role of Arts in the cycle of crime, prison and reoffendingLecture
07 April 2016The Goldsmiths' Company with Assay Office and William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow.Visit
17 March 2016William Burges: genius designer of Victorian GothicLecture
25 February 2016Botticelli's FlorenceLecture
18 February 2016True to Life? Dutch painting and society in Vermeer's Golden AgeSpecial Event
04 February 2016Jacob EpsteinLecture
14 January 2016Venice in 18th century LondonLecture
10 December 2015 Royal Albert Hall and the Wallace CollectionVisit
03 December 2015Pigments: Hidden Sources of Power in PaintingsLecture
19 November 2015The Passionate Eye: Painting, Pleasure and the Search for Paradise, the art of Degas, Whistler and Monet, and Sickert. Special Event
12 November 2015The Decline and Fall of Roman BritainLecture
22 October 2015Boughton House and Estate TourVisit
15 October 2015Laos: From Historic Temples to Modern SilkweavingLecture
18 June 2015ADVENTURE AND MISADVENTURES IN MUSEUMSLecture
04 June 2015Broughton Castle and Rousham House and GardensVisit
15 May 2015The City of Heart's Desire: ISTANBUL - a five day visitVisit
14 May 2015THE TATE REVISITED : The new face of an old friend: a History of the Tate, its collections and modern redevelopmentLecture
30 April 2015Michelangelo - starting at 10.00Special Event
16 April 2015MEDIEVAL STAINED GLASSLecture
26 March 2015Basildon Park, Berkshire and Hughenden Manor, BuckinghamshireVisit
19 March 2015DENYS LASDUN AND THE NATIONAL THEATRE. Architectural Masterpiece or was Prince Charles right after all? Lecture
26 February 2015THREE GREAT FAMILIES AND THEIR GARDENSLecture
05 February 2015TRIBAL RUGS; TREASURES OF THE BLACK TENT Antique Tribal Rugs and Dowry Weavings of The Persian and Central Asian Nomads Lecture
15 January 2015RENAISSANCE MARRIAGELecture
11 December 2014RSC Stratford-on-AvonVisit
04 December 2014THE DISCOVERY OF PARISLecture
20 November 2014Rembrandt Harmenszoon van RijnSpecial Event
13 November 2014The Not So Still Lives of Ben NicholsonLecture
03 November 2014Spencer House and the National Gallery, LondonVisit
16 October 2014Russian ArtLecture
12 June 2014Meet me at the WaldorfLecture
05 June 2014Penshurst Place and Hever CastleVisit
15 May 2014The New Ashmolean Museum and its classical collectionsLecture
07 May 2014Cardiff's Art and CastlesVisit
24 April 2014The Jewellery of Rene LaliqueLecture
27 March 2014Nicholas Pevsner In CambridgeLecture
20 March 2014Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwickshire and Baddesley ClintonVisit
06 March 201412,000 years of Japanese ArtSpecial Event
27 February 2014World Fairs 1851-1900: International exhibitions their scope and influenceLecture
06 February 2014War Artists, Spies and the art of deceptionLecture
16 January 2014Rubens at home: portraits of family and friendsLecture
05 December 2013Christmas at Covent garden: 300 years of Christmas shows at one of London’s great theatresLecture
21 November 2013An Introduction to Modern ArtSpecial Event
14 November 2013Dreamtime to Machine Time: Aboriginal ArtLecture
10 October 2013The British Portrait: Hogarth to HockneyLecture
13 June 2013Diaghelev’s Ballets Russes: A Synthesis of Excellence?Lecture
16 May 2013AGM then The Destruction of the Monasteries :The greatest act of vandalism in English History Lecture
18 April 2013The Hitler EmigresLecture
21 March 2013Charles Rennie MackintoshLecture
15 March 2013Lancaster House and the Foreign and Commonwealth OfficeVisit
28 February 2013Sutherland, Piper and Neo-RomanticismSpecial Event
21 February 2013Medieval Manuscripts and the Parker LibraryLecture
31 January 2013From Vanbrugh to Repton: the English Landscape GardenLecture
10 January 2013Canals, Carnivals and Courtesans:the art of l8th century VeniceLecture
13 December 2012Excess Baggage: The Journey of the Magi, From S. Matthew to the MediciLecture
06 December 2012StratfordVisit
08 November 2012Brothers in Art: the Pre-Raphaelites- Britain’s Greatest Artists?Lecture
18 October 2012Lambeth PalaceVisit
11 October 2012Gertrude Stein and her SetLecture
08 July 2012The Art and Culture of Edinburgh and Glasgow. Visit
21 June 2012Blenheim Palace and Bladon ChurchVisit
14 June 2012In the wake of Handel –the impact of Handel and his music on 300 years of British culture Lecture
17 May 2012The Art And Scandolous Lives Of The Bloomsbury GroupLecture
03 May 2012A Walking Tour of the Olympic site.Visit
01 May 2012Highgrove GardenVisit
26 April 2012Architecture at the London Olympics 2012 Lecture
29 March 2012Mosaics of RavennaLecture
22 March 2012A Walking Tour in the Steps of Wren Visit
01 March 2012Pearls and pomegranates, peacocks and pipes: The hidden language of renaissance art. Lecture
23 February 2012Emma Hamilton and Josephine BonaparteSpecial Event
02 February 2012Brothers of the Brush: Artist Monks in 15th Century Florence Lecture
12 January 2012The Impressionists – French avant garde in context Lecture
15 December 2011Russian Art and Music of the 19th Century with musicLecture
01 December 2011The Foundling Museum and Cabinet War Rooms in LondonVisit
17 November 2011Islamic Art Special Event
10 November 2011Sorolla – Painter of sunlightLecture
20 October 2011 Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham University,Visit
13 October 2011Dickens revisited 1812-2012Lecture
02 June 2011Down House, the home of DarwinVisit
01 June 2011Chartwell, the home of Winston ChurchillVisit
01 May 2011Windsor Castle and Savill GardenVisit
18 November 2010Tailoring the Image: Examining the Place of Costume and Accessories in ArtSpecial Event
01 March 2010Eltham Palace and The Stone HouseVisit
01 February 2010Gaugin Exhibition and the Royal Opera HouseVisit
01 January 2010Buckingham Palace and Clarence HouseVisit