2023 Lecture Programme

January 10th Douglas Skeggs. Prague – ‘The City of the Winter Queen’

February 7th Mark Ovenden. 160 Years of London Underground Design and Architecture.Followed by the 2023 AGM

March 7th Rosalind Whyte. Dame Laura Knight

April 4th Karin Fernald. ‘The Shakespeare of Dogs’ – Sir Edwin Landseer 1802-73

May 2nd Andrew Prince. ‘From Downton to Gatsby’: Jewellery and Fashion from 1890-1929

June 6th Timothy Walker. ‘Paradise Lost and Restored’: 400 Years of Garden Design in Oxfordshire

October 3rd Simon Seligman. ‘From Venice to Sheffield’: John Ruskin’s Passion for Art, Craft and Social Justice

November 7th Mark Cottle. ‘A Photographic Odyssey’: Shackleton’s Endurance Expedition Captured on Camera

December 5th Nigel Bates. ‘In the Kingdom of the Sweets’: The Nutcracker