UK EVENT
Thu 16 May 2024
Following his well-received visit to Cumbria and the Lake District in 2022, Tony Peart turns his attention to the North East. Based in Newcastle with visits to Sunderland and Durham, the...
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Thu 09 May 2024
Alex Forshaw, architectural historian and author, will lead another of his popular walks. This time it will encompass a group of remarkable buildings in the north-east part of the City of London,...
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ZOOM LECTURE
Sun 07 Apr 2024
Zoom lecture by Olivia Horsfall Turner FSA at 6.00 pm (London). Owen Jones, who died 150 years ago in April 1874, was one of the most influential designers and theorists of mid-19th-century...
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Wed 20 Mar 2024
A visit to a house in Hampstead Garden Suburb, North London, including a study and handling session, to view a collection of furniture by Edward Barnsley and his workshop from the 1950s to the...
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Sun 18 Feb 2024
Zoom lecture by Sarah Hardy at 6.00 pm (London). William De Morgan was the premier designer and maker of decorative ceramics in the late-Victorian period. Friends with William Morris and Walter...
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Thu 08 Feb 2024
No. 68 is probably the last of the Victorian town houses in Chelsea’s Cadogan Square with a largely unaltered layout. Designed by Richard Norman Shaw in 1878, the house is currently used as a...
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Mon 15 Jan 2024
A visit to the archives of Whitelands College which include artefacts donated by John Ruskin and dresses and robes (including those designed by Kate Greenaway) which have been worn since 1881 by...
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Sun 10 Dec 2023
Zoom lecture by Jessica Insley at 6.00 pm (London). John, 3rd Marquess of Bute, was a scholarly man with a fortune and a passion for working collaboratively with craftsmen. Between 1870 and 1900,...
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Sat 18 Nov 2023
The Annual Meeting of Members is being held at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. This will give members an opportunity to see the exhibition Colour Revolution: Victorian Art, Fashion & Design,...
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Sun 29 Oct 2023
Zoom lecture by Clive Stewart-Lockhart at 6.00 pm (London). Betty Joel was born in Hong Kong in 1894; nothing in her early life prepared her for the extraordinary success of her eponymous...
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