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12 November 2026CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE HUGENOTS
15 October 2026OFF THE RECORD: ALBUM COVER ART 1950-2000
18 June 2026Women behind the lens: outstanding female photographers and their contribution to the art of photography
21 May 2026The Ming Dynasty: Power, Craftsmanship, and Tea in China’s empire of brightness
30 April 2026Antony Gormley a body of work
19 March 2026How to get down from a Yak
19 February 2026Introducing the Scottish Colourists
29 January 2026Let the Games Begin! The Cotswold Olympics Rebound
04 December 2025Nicholas Reed The Art and Wit of Winston Churchill and Noel Coward
13 November 2025Tudor Liveliness.
16 October 2025The Hamilton Kerr Institute and its role in student training
19 June 2025Looking through art: Johannes Vermeer and the camera obscura  
15 May 2025William Blake: Poet, printer, prophet and much misunderstood
17 April 2025British Art Deco buildings
13 March 2025The Post War Textile Visionaries of Modern Art
13 February 2025Shinto Shrines
23 January 2025Untouchable Art the rise of NFT and speculation in art
05 December 2024Art of Stained Glass
14 November 2024Conducted tour of the Monopoly board
10 October 2024The inside story - stories behind the most intriguing cases of Nazi looted Art.
13 June 2024The art of Winnie-the-Pooh
09 May 2024Great lengths - On the art and architecture of historic swimming pools and lidos
18 April 2024Hogarth at the hustings: The election entertainment series and the birth of political satire -
07 March 2024The Bayeux tapestry: 950 years of intrigue, propaganda and spin
08 February 2024Caravaggio
11 January 2024The loose and airy, lightness of flowers: Grinling Gibbons and his carvings in wood
07 December 2023Pilgrimage to St Catherine’s Monastery in Mount Sinai
09 November 2023The kingdom in the sun: Sicily
12 October 2023Sir Christopher Wren
08 June 2023Thomas Heatherwick: A modern Leonardo?
11 May 2023The Ship Burial at Sutton Hoo
13 April 2023Frida Kahlo – A life in Art
09 March 2023Lecture CHANGED
09 February 2023Shoes in Art
12 January 2023The Story of Indian Modern Art
08 December 2022Nothing Says Christmas Like an Axe Fight: Courtly Spectacles of the Renaissance
03 November 2022The Art of the Cartoonist
06 October 2022The Mystery of Holbein’s Ambassadors - Anthony Russell
09 June 2022A Truly Cultured Woman is as Rare as the Phoenix: The Life and Work of Isabella D’Este
12 May 2022Mad Men and Artists: How the Advertising Industry Exploited Fine Art
21 April 2022Joaquin Sorolla : Painter of Light
10 March 2022Aubrey Beardsley
10 February 2022Powder and Poison: Cosmetics, Beauty & Art of Portraiture
13 January 2022Thinking Big - Ups and Downs of the London Coliseum: London’s Largest Theatre
09 December 2021The Annunciation in Art
04 November 2021Proliferation of Patterns: Wallpapers 1920-2000 -
07 October 2021Le Duc de Berry
17 June 2021Edith Durham’s bold Edwardian collection of beautiful Balkan things
08 June 2021We Do Like to be Beside the Seaside. TAS Granta
20 May 2021As Good as Gold - A special lecture in Celebration of the Arts Society Cambridge's Golden anniversary
11 May 2021A Brief Story of Wine. TAS Granta
29 April 2021“Undressing Antiques” - A persuasive introduction to buying antiques and integrating and using them in today’s homes
20 April 2021British Studio Pottery – A concise History. TAS Granta
01 April 2021150 years of London Underground Design
09 March 2021The Age of Jazz from its beginnings through to the outbreak of World War II. TAS Granta
04 March 2021Making Visions: the Jewellery of Artist Charles Ricketts
11 February 2021Turner vs Constable: The Great British Paint-Off
09 February 2021Raphael of Urbino, Artist and Architect. -- TAS Granta
14 January 2021Pots and Frocks – the world of Grayson Perry From Essex punk potter to superstar national treasure
12 January 2021The Art and Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna. -- TAS Granta
10 December 2020Messenger or Missile? Angels' glad tidings, doom, gloom or perdition
08 December 2020James Gillray, Caterpillar on the Green Leaf of Reputation
05 November 2020The Studio-Houses of the Holland Park Circle
08 October 2020Cleopatra: 'The Most Womanly of Women, and the Most Queenly of Queens'
27 August 2020Hobson's Conduit
06 August 2020The Royal Yachts
04 June 2020Mad Men and Artists: How the Advertising Industry Exploited Fine Art
07 May 2020Powder and Poison: Cosmetics, Beauty and the Art of Portraiture
09 April 2020A Proliferation of Pattern and Wallpapers 1920–2000
12 March 2020The Silk Road and the Arts of China
20 February 2020“So They Do Cook After All!” Ravilious, Bawden and the Great Bardfield Artists
30 January 2020Through a Glass Darkly: A Study of Glass through the Eyes of the Artist
09 January 2020Packing up the Nation
05 December 2019From Downton to Gatsby, Jewellery and Fashion 1890–1929
14 November 2019The Art of Snow and Ice: How Artists Transformed the Winter Landscape
10 October 2019‘Becoming a Conservator’ – The Hamilton Kerr Institute and Educating the Next Generation of Paintings Conservators
13 June 2019A Passion for Fashion
09 May 2019Dame Zaha Hadid
18 April 2019The Guggenheims: a Dynasty of Art Collectors
07 March 2019Eileen Gray, an Irish Rebel
07 February 2019Same Old ... Same New
24 January 2019Revealing the Beauty of Nature: the Landscape Art of Andy Goldsworthy
10 January 2019The Other Side: Counter Memorials
06 December 2018From Garbo to Garland: The Magical Art of Hollywood
08 November 2018The Country House Library: A grand Tour
11 October 2018The Magnificent Maya – Facts and Fantasy
14 June 2018The Promenade des Anglais: Artists in Nice
17 May 2018The Art and Culture of Fin-de-Siècle Vienna
19 April 2018Basingstoke and its Contribution to World Culture
15 March 2018The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl Fabergé before the Revolution
22 February 2018Let There be Light
01 February 2018Rachel Whiteread
18 January 2018Scandinavia: Art and Design c. 1880-1950
30 November 2017How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art
09 November 2017The Most Infamous Family in History: the Borgias
05 October 2017Artists and Espionage: the Lawn Road Flats NW3
15 June 2017When Britain Clicked: Fab Photographs from the Swinging Sixties
18 May 2017The Extraordinary Life of Misia Sert "Queen of Paris"
13 April 2017A View from the Plinth: a Review of Contemporary Public Sculpture
16 March 2017Domes and Minarets: Mosques of the Islamic World
23 February 2017The Parker Library
02 February 2017Introduction to Ice Age Art
19 January 2017Forty Shades of Green: Gardening in Ireland, Past and Present
01 December 2016Christmas Dinner: from EdwardI to Edward VII
10 November 2016Cornelia Parker
06 October 2016Edwardian Opulence: The Portraiture of John Singer Sargent
16 June 2016Dumfries House: Saved for the Nation
19 May 2016Behind the Scenes, Curating the Art Gallery
14 April 2016The Role of Arts in the cycle of crime, prison and reoffending
17 March 2016William Burges: genius designer of Victorian Gothic
25 February 2016Botticelli's Florence
04 February 2016Jacob Epstein
14 January 2016Venice in 18th century London
03 December 2015Pigments: Hidden Sources of Power in Paintings
12 November 2015The Decline and Fall of Roman Britain
15 October 2015Laos: From Historic Temples to Modern Silkweaving
18 June 2015ADVENTURE AND MISADVENTURES IN MUSEUMS
14 May 2015THE TATE REVISITED : The new face of an old friend: a History of the Tate, its collections and modern redevelopment
16 April 2015MEDIEVAL STAINED GLASS
19 March 2015DENYS LASDUN AND THE NATIONAL THEATRE. Architectural Masterpiece or was Prince Charles right after all?
26 February 2015THREE GREAT FAMILIES AND THEIR GARDENS
05 February 2015TRIBAL RUGS; TREASURES OF THE BLACK TENT Antique Tribal Rugs and Dowry Weavings of The Persian and Central Asian Nomads
15 January 2015RENAISSANCE MARRIAGE
04 December 2014THE DISCOVERY OF PARIS
13 November 2014The Not So Still Lives of Ben Nicholson
16 October 2014Russian Art
12 June 2014Meet me at the Waldorf
15 May 2014The New Ashmolean Museum and its classical collections
24 April 2014The Jewellery of Rene Lalique
27 March 2014Nicholas Pevsner In Cambridge
27 February 2014World Fairs 1851-1900: International exhibitions their scope and influence
06 February 2014War Artists, Spies and the art of deception
16 January 2014Rubens at home: portraits of family and friends
05 December 2013Christmas at Covent garden: 300 years of Christmas shows at one of London’s great theatres
14 November 2013Dreamtime to Machine Time: Aboriginal Art
10 October 2013The British Portrait: Hogarth to Hockney
13 June 2013Diaghelev’s Ballets Russes: A Synthesis of Excellence?
16 May 2013AGM then The Destruction of the Monasteries :The greatest act of vandalism in English History
18 April 2013The Hitler Emigres
21 March 2013Charles Rennie Mackintosh
21 February 2013Medieval Manuscripts and the Parker Library
31 January 2013From Vanbrugh to Repton: the English Landscape Garden
10 January 2013Canals, Carnivals and Courtesans:the art of l8th century Venice
13 December 2012Excess Baggage: The Journey of the Magi, From S. Matthew to the Medici
08 November 2012Brothers in Art: the Pre-Raphaelites- Britain’s Greatest Artists?
11 October 2012Gertrude Stein and her Set
14 June 2012In the wake of Handel –the impact of Handel and his music on 300 years of British culture
17 May 2012The Art And Scandolous Lives Of The Bloomsbury Group
26 April 2012Architecture at the London Olympics 2012
29 March 2012Mosaics of Ravenna
01 March 2012Pearls and pomegranates, peacocks and pipes: The hidden language of renaissance art.
02 February 2012Brothers of the Brush: Artist Monks in 15th Century Florence
12 January 2012The Impressionists – French avant garde in context
15 December 2011Russian Art and Music of the 19th Century with music
10 November 2011Sorolla – Painter of sunlight
13 October 2011Dickens revisited 1812-2012

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CULTURAL HERITAGE OF THE HUGENOTS SUE JACKSON Thursday 12 November 2026

The Huguenots came to England in huge numbers in the late 17th century bringing a wide variety of skills - as silk weavers, silversmiths, clock makers, opticians, bankers, gilders, ironworkers, horticulturists etc. Names such as Paul de Lamerie, Samuel Courtauld and Jean Tijou spring to mind. In virtually all areas, they were innovators and more advanced than the English who were forced to improve their own skills or go out of business. Although the majority settled in London, others found their way to East Anglia, Macclesfield and Canterbury. This talk examines their lasting legacy. 

About out lecturer:

Originally in academic art and design publishing, Sue is also a Fellow of the Huguenot Society, a Freeman of the City of London, a tutor at the City Literary Institute and a Blue Badge guide, conducting a variety of walks and visits.  I am also happy to offer virtual tours.

NB Sue Jacson will not allow us to use the TAS Zoom Guest Scheme