WILLIAM BECKFORD, PATRON OF SILVERSMITHS
Lecturer: Timothy Schroder
<br/> Find out more “Wednesday 23rd July”
THE ART OF AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI – ANCIENT EGYPT’S UNIQUE ROYAL COUPLE
Lecturer: Lucia Gahlin
<br/> Find out more “Wednesday 18th June”
AUGUSTE RODIN AND 19TH CENTURY SCULPTURE
Lecturer: David Worthington
<br/> Find out more “Wednesday 14th May”
On Wednesday 30th October, 2024, Anne Haworth gave a talk to on the Forbidden City, Beijing, to a full house at Les Cotils.
The Forbidden City is the Imperial <br/> Find out more “The Forbidden City – Review”
Lecturer: Marc Allum
The 1951 Festival Of Britain was established to celebrate the centenary of the 1851 Great Exhibition but also to give post-war Britain a morale-boost. It was ‘a <br/> Find out more “Brave New World – The Festival of Britain – Review”
REVIEW
Lecturer: Joanna Banham
The Victorian period witnessed massive changes in the manufacture and utilisation of wallpaper: a product that had previously been a luxury item became available to all <br/> Find out more “The Home Beautiful: Pre-Raphaelite Interiors”
REVIEW
Lecturer: Matthew Williams
The Marquesses of Bute are an ancient Scottish family who rose to prominence during the eighteenth century. Wise marriages brought wealth and by 1860 industrial enterprise <br/> Find out more “The Marquesses of Bute: Patrons of Opulence”
A CLASSIC DETECTIVE STORY: THE ROYAL GAME OF UR
Lecturer: Irving Finkel
The most successful board game of antiquity (2600 BC), a beautiful set of ancient rules (177 BC) and <br/> Find out more “Wednesday 15th May”
THE MARQUESSES OF BUTE; PATRONS OF OPULENCE
Lecturer: Matthew Williams
The Marquesses of Bute rose to prominence during the eighteenth century. The extraordinary buildings of the scholarly third Marquess include <br/> Find out more “Wednesday 26th June”
