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15 September 2026The Echoing Scream: The Birth of ExpressionismLecture
16 June 2026Dazzling Dufy: Invitation to a luminous feast with Raoul DufyLecture
03 June 2026Visit to Wolterton HallVisit
19 May 2026Renoir: How someone so disabled could produce works of such extreme beauty is a complete mystery, even to his own sonLecture
21 April 2026The Stirling PrizeLecture
17 March 2026Rescuing Zeugma from the waters of the EuphratesLecture
10 March 2026Paintings Inspired by Music and Music Inspired by PaintingsSpecial Event
17 February 2026Restoration of Notre DameLecture
20 January 2026A Village in Heaven: Stanley Spencer's CookhamLecture
09 December 2025Christmas LunchVisit
18 November 2025Leonardo's Horses: Equine Studies of Leonardo Da VinciLecture
21 October 2025The Huguenot Silk Weavers of Spitalfields: From Riches to RagsLecture
07 October 2025King Charles III, His Forebears and Their Artistic TastesSpecial Event
16 September 2025Vincent In Ramsgate - Van Gogh in EnglandLecture
17 June 2025George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham - The handsomest man in 17th Century Europe and his patronage of the artsLecture
20 May 2025Beyond borders: Fortified and painted churches in RomaniaLecture
06 May 2025Visit to Euston Hall, SuffolkVisit
15 April 2025First catch of a squirrel - Historical materials and techniques of painting in the 15th to 18th centuriesLecture
18 March 2025The Jurassic world of Mary AnningLecture
04 March 2025The Study of Troy in Archaeology and ArtSpecial Event
18 February 2025The Honourable East India Company and East-West Trade: Chintz, Chinese Export and Chinoiserie 1600-1800Lecture
21 January 2025The big three in Florence: Michaelangelo, Leonardo and RaphaelLecture
10 December 2024Christmas lunch at Blakeney HotelVisit
19 November 2024The scoliotic knight: Encounters with Richard IIILecture
02 November 2024Visit to the ballet at Norwich Theatre RoyalVisit
15 October 2024Murillo and Baroque Seville: The city of art, faith and empireLecture
08 October 2024Turner v Constable: The Great British Paint-off Special Interest DaySpecial Event
17 September 2024Faber and Faber: 90 years of excellence in cover designLecture
18 June 2024Resurgam: The Music of St Paul's Cathedral (plus AGM)Lecture
21 May 2024The Dark Side of the Boom: the Mass Faking of the Soviet Avant GardeLecture
08 May 2024Visit to Gainsborough's House in SudburyVisit
16 April 2024Fashion, Fury & FeathersLecture
19 March 2024The Brilliance of Brunel - the Man who Built the Modern WorldLecture
06 March 2024The Seine – River of Light and Artists’ Delight – Home to ImpressionismSpecial Event
20 February 2024A Bit of a Carry OnLecture
16 January 2024Basingstoke & its Contribution to World CultureLecture
12 December 2023Christmas LunchVisit
29 November 2023Visit to CambridgeVisit
21 November 2023MonopolyLecture
17 October 2023Grace Darling: The Fine Art of Saving Lives at SeaLecture
03 October 2023Victorian JewellerySpecial Event
19 September 2023The Elgin MarblesLecture
12 July 2023Visit to Houghton HallVisit
20 June 2023Nicholas Hilliard and the Art of the Miniature (AGM)Lecture
07 June 2023Visit to the Henry Moore FoundationVisit
16 May 2023The Men who made MenswearLecture
18 April 2023Oliver Messel - The Man Who Put Romance Into Caribbean LivingLecture
06 April 2023Mathew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty, Theatre Royal NorwichVisit
21 March 2023Stone on Stone - The Men who built CathedralsLecture
07 March 2023Preparing for Death in Ancient EgyptSpecial Event
21 February 202320th Century British Artists through the Lens of Jorge LewinskiLecture
17 January 2023The History of AuctionsLecture
13 December 2022Christmas lunchVisit
09 December 2022Visions of EgyptVisit
15 November 2022Dick Whittington: International Man of Myth and Myster(ie)Lecture
18 October 2022Paul Nash and the Landscape of MysteryLecture
11 October 2022The Golden Age of Dutch ArtSpecial Event
20 September 2022Cambridge College Gardens: their history from the 13th centuryLecture
21 June 2022Tantrums and TiarasLecture
09 June 2022Henry Moore FoundationVisit
17 May 2022Dale Chihuly and the American Art Glass MovementLecture
16 May 2022Rearranged visit to Helmingham HallVisit
19 April 2022One Westminster, 6 Royal PalacesLecture
15 March 2022The Private Life of a Masterpiece: Madame XLecture
15 February 2022The Healing Power of PlantsLecture
08 February 2022The Silk RoadSpecial Event
01 February 2022Virtual live tour to the Dylan Lewis Sculpture Park, Stellenbosch, by ZoomVisit
25 January 2022Virtual Guided Tour to VeniceVisit
18 January 2022The Art of State Ceremonial MusicLecture
14 December 2021Christmas Lunch at Morston HallVisit
16 November 2021The Kingdom in the Sun: SicilyLecture
26 October 2021Study Morning on Edward SeagoSpecial Event
19 October 2021Mad Men and the Artists - How the Advertising Industry has Exploited Fine ArtLecture
21 September 2021Caravaggio: The Master of Light and ShadowLecture
01 September 2021John Crome exhibitionVisit
20 July 2021Downton to Gatsby: Jewellery and fashion 1890-1929Lecture
15 June 2021Giles: His life, times and cartoonsLecture
18 May 2021AD410: The year that shook RomeLecture
27 April 20212nd virtual tour of VeniceVisit
20 April 2021Foreigners in London 1520 to 1677: The artists who changed the course of British artLecture
16 March 2021Food and Art through the Ages: From renaissance sugar sculptures to 3D printingLecture
23 February 2021Virtual tour of David Parr HouseVisit
16 February 2021Signs and Symbols: The hidden messages in artLecture
09 February 2021The Silk Road: Introduction to its history and culturesSpecial Event
26 January 2021Virtual tour of VeniceVisit
19 January 2021Old Buildings, Fakes and FallaciesLecture
01 January 2021Visits in 2021Visit
17 November 2020Are You Looking at Me? The secrets behind Art History's most famous peopleLecture
20 October 2020Beethoven at 250: Classical Music's Greatest RevolutionaryLecture
15 September 2020Packing up the nationLecture
16 June 2020Annual General Meeting followed by The Kingdom in the Sun: SicilyLecture
19 May 2020The Healing Power of PlantsLecture
05 May 2020Visit to Helmingham Hall and Cressing BarnsVisit
25 April 2020Extended visit to SicilyVisit
21 April 2020Mad Men and Artists - How the Advertising Industry exploited Fine ArtLecture
17 March 2020Signs and Symbols: The Hidden Messages in ArtLecture
18 February 2020A Brief Story of WineLecture
11 February 2020Arts of Japan: Tradition and InnovationSpecial Event
21 January 2020Treason, Triangles and Thomas Tresham - The Symbolic Architecture of a Closet CatholicLecture
10 December 2019Christmas Lunch at Morston HallVisit
19 November 2019"As if by Magic" The Secrets of Turner's Watercolour TechniquesLecture
01 November 2019Why Paris? 1900 - 1947Special Event
15 October 2019Gilding the Lily: The Gardens of FlorenceLecture
08 October 2019Music & Arts 1450-1800 "What does that Painting sound like?"Special Event
17 September 2019Edith Cavell RememberedLecture
18 June 2019Annual General Meeting followed by The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl Fabergé - After the RevolutionLecture
04 June 2019Visit to Audley End House & Wimpole EstateVisit
21 May 2019The Fascinating World of Playing CardsLecture
28 April 2019Extended visit to GlasgowVisit
16 April 2019Shaken by an Earthquake - Igor Stravinsky, the Ballets Russes and the astonishing 1913 premier of the Rite of Spring Lecture
19 March 2019The Magnificent Maya-Fact and FantasyLecture
19 February 2019Hidden Canvasses: Street Art and the CityLecture
12 February 2019THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSHSpecial Event
15 January 2019Norfolk's Power Houses: Raynham, Houghton, Wolterton and HolkhamLecture
11 December 2018Christmas Lunch 2018Visit
04 December 2018Special Carol ServiceVisit
20 November 2018Tribal Rugs: 'Treasures of the Black Tent' 19th Century Rugs & Weavings of the Persian & Central Asian TribesLecture
06 November 2018Visit to NorthamptonVisit
16 October 2018La Mortella: Sir William and Lady Walton's Italian Garden ParadiseLecture
08 October 2018The Art & History of LondonVisit
25 September 2018A Galaxy of Starchitects - Part 2Special Event
18 September 2018A Photographic Odyssey: Shackleton's Endurance Expedition Captured on CameraLecture
19 June 2018Annual General Meeting followed by Velazquez - The Great Magician of ArtLecture
12 June 2018Visit to Sutton Hoo and The Red House, AldburghVisit
15 May 2018The Most Infamous Family In History: The BorgiasLecture
03 May 2018Visit to the Theatre Royal, Norwich to see The Marriage of FigaroVisit
17 April 2018Sutton Hoo and the Golden Age of Old EnglandLecture
04 April 2018Visit to The Theatre Royal, Norwich to see Prokofiev's Ballet Romeo and Juliet Visit
20 March 2018Mars and Muses - The Renaissance Art of ArmourLecture
20 February 2018Things that go Bump in the night - why medieval buildings fall downLecture
06 February 2018Great Tarts in Art: High Culture and the Oldest ProfessionSpecial Event
16 January 2018The History of the English GardenLecture
21 November 2017The Glasgow Girls - Women in Art and Design in Glasgow 1890-1920Lecture
16 November 2017Glyndebourne Touring Opera Company in Cosi Fan TutteVisit
17 October 2017A Portrait of Lord NelsonLecture
06 October 2017One Day Visit to Kings Lynn - Clifton House and Historic Kings LynnVisit
03 October 2017"Not bloody likely" - The Marketing of Covent Garden 1600 - 2000Special Event
19 September 2017Wonder Workers and the Art of Illusion (The history of Magic through Art and Pictures)Lecture
12 September 2017Silk: From Spitalfields to Sudbury - ExhibitionVisit
20 June 2017AGM followed by Music and Instruments at the Tudor CourtsLecture
30 May 2017Visit to Spitalfields and Dennis Severs' HouseVisit
16 May 2017A Galaxy of StarchitectsLecture
18 April 2017The Interiors of Jane Austen's HeroinesLecture
21 March 2017Perdita Robinson: Actress, Poet and Fashion IconLecture
21 February 2017Beneath the City Streets - London's Unseen HistoryLecture
14 February 2017India: Mughal art and intrigue; and the British contribution to Indian historySpecial Event
17 January 2017The Art of Piero della FrancescaLecture
15 November 2016The Honourable East India Company and East-West Trade: Chintz, Chinese Export and Chinoiserie 1600-1800Lecture
18 October 2016England's Golden Age of Cabinet MakingLecture
20 September 2016Absolutely Classic! Neoclassicism in Regency EnglandLecture
21 June 2016AGM followed by Riviera Paradise: Art, Design and Pleasure in the 1920's and '30sLecture