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13 October 2026Brothers of the Brush: Artist Monks in 15th century FlorenceLecture
08 September 2026Buxton, Chatsworth and Peak DistrictVisit
14 July 2026Edouard Manet and Music Lecture
30 June 2026Firle Place and Glynde PlaceVisit
09 June 2026Britain as Workshop of the World: the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the establishment of the Victoria & Albert Museum Lecture
03 June 2026Godington House & All Saints Church, TudelyVisit
27 May 2026The Forensic Eye: Find your inner connoisseurSpecial Event
12 May 2026 Priceless Peggy - Peggy GuggenheimLecture
07 May 2026Farleys House & Gallery and Michelham PrioryVisit
14 April 2026Opium - Seduction, Greed, ArtLecture
10 March 2026 Rome - The 1700s - The Grand TourLecture
18 February 2026Istanbul: City of faith, power and beautySpecial Event
10 February 2026The Art of the AutomobileLecture
13 January 2026Becoming Jane Austen: the making of a literary superstarLecture
09 December 2025Pantomime when a fairy is over Fifty!Lecture
04 December 2025Penshurst PlaceVisit
11 November 2025'O for the wings of a dove' the life of a cathedral chorister Lecture
15 October 2025Romania tour 2025Visit
14 October 2025Viking Gods & Valkyries: the art of Norse mythologyLecture
15 July 2025BeaulieuVisit
08 July 2025Cinema from the rubble: post-war politics of Ealing StudiosLecture
10 June 2025Charles I: King and CollectorLecture
04 June 2025WinchesterVisit
28 May 2025British BaroqueSpecial Event
13 May 2025Prague: city of the Winter QueenLecture
08 May 2025Bletchley ParkVisit
29 April 2025EdinburghVisit
08 April 2025Saint George in England: a visual legacyLecture
11 March 2025Convent, courts and collections: women artists of the 16th and 17th centuriesLecture
20 February 2025Covent Garden: a story in three acts!Special Event
11 February 2025Portraits of 20th century British artists through the lens of Jorge LewinskiLecture
10 February 2025Memory Trail St Martins Church DorkingVisit
14 January 2025The astonishing Master Mozart comes to LondonLecture
12 December 2024Waddesdon Manor: lunch and Christmas lightsVisit
10 December 2024Bruegel: the Seasons and the WorldLecture
12 November 2024The Cenotaph Armistice DayLecture
21 October 2024Corfu and Albania tour October 2024Visit
08 October 2024Bandstands - History, Decline and RevivalLecture
09 July 2024A Highland thing? 18th - 20th century Scottish art Lecture
04 July 2024The Vyne and West Green HouseVisit
01 July 2024Edinburgh Tour 2025Visit
11 June 2024The subtle science and exact art of colour in English garden design. Why gardening can rank as fine art.Lecture
06 June 2024Hatfield HouseVisit
28 May 2024Pink Champagne: the world of French and Viennese Operetta. Glamorous Nights. Music between the wars Special Event
18 May 2024Naples tour 2024Visit
14 May 2024Delacroix’s LibertyLecture
24 April 2024 MottisfontVisit
09 April 2024Sun King and VersaillesLecture
12 March 2024Barkers Fashion Shows 1928-30Lecture
15 February 2024Iran: land of great kings, shahs and ayatollahs Special Event
13 February 2024Through a glass darkly: Vermeer and the camera obscura Lecture
09 January 2024Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: the Golden Age of Mexican Art Lecture
17 December 2023Glyndebourne Christmas ConcertVisit
12 December 2023A bit of a Carry On: untold story of Peter Butterworth and Janet BrownLecture
14 November 2023Marathon: Ancient GreeceLecture
10 October 2023The Culture of Ukraine Lecture
27 September 2023Chester and North Wales tourVisit
15 July 2023Westminster AbbeyVisit
11 July 2023Disorder Restored: The Radical Side of Agatha ChristieLecture
13 June 2023Ship Burial at Sutton Hoo Lecture
07 June 2023Marble Hill and Pitzhanger ManorVisit
30 May 2023The birth, growth and influence of London's great auction housesSpecial Event
17 May 2023Vermeer at the Rijksmuseum and the art of the Netherlands tour 2023Visit
09 May 2023Painters in Paradise, visions of French Indochina Lecture
27 April 2023Wrest Park and Hughenden Visit
11 April 2023That Woman or the Duchess of Style: Time to reassess Wallis Simpson Lecture
14 March 2023Murder and Modernism, Walter Sickert and the Camden Town Group Lecture
15 February 2023William Morris and the Arts and Crafts MovementSpecial Event
14 February 2023The Kennedy White House: Art, Architecture and Gardens of CamelotLecture
10 January 2023Madrid & ToledoLecture
13 December 2022Blenheim Palace: The Agony and the Ecstasy Lecture
08 November 2022Now you see it, now you don’t: the art of virtual deception Lecture
12 October 2022Madrid tour 2022Visit
11 October 2022Fabergé: Objects of DesireLecture
21 July 2022Althorp HouseVisit
12 July 2022Three Great Families and their gardens: a history of the Astors, Rothschilds and Sackville Wests Lecture
23 June 2022Northumberland - Castles, Coast and Country houses Visit
14 June 2022Punch Magazine: Halcyon Days Lecture
08 June 2022Kelmscott Manor and Buscot ParkVisit
01 June 2022Arts of the Edo period Japan (1615 – 1868) Special Event
10 May 2022The Borgias, The Most Infamous Family in History? Lecture
28 April 2022Salisbury CathedralVisit
12 April 2022Tantrums & Tiaras - Behind the Scenes at The Royal Opera HouseLecture
16 March 2022Pitzhanger Manor and Musical MuseumVisit
08 March 2022Captain Cook and the Fine Art of Exploration 1768-1780 Lecture
16 February 2022The Complete Pompeii Special Event
08 February 2022Opera: melting pot of cultureLecture
11 January 2022The Golden Section: Divine proportion in art and architecture Lecture
14 December 2021From Biscuits to Blouses: Garibaldi and the British Lecture
09 November 2021Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves – a representation of Working Classes in Art Lecture
28 October 2021Geometric Joys - Art Deco Limpsfield Arts SocietySpecial Event
12 October 2021A Child of 6 Could Do It! Cartoonists’ View of Modern ArtLecture
08 September 2021Art and History in the Birmingham areaVisit
13 July 2021From Downton to Gatsby. Jewellery and Fashion 1890 to1920Lecture
01 June 2021Wrest Park House - CANCELLEDVisit
01 June 2021Foreigners in London: The Artists that changed the course of British ArtLecture
27 May 2021Edinburgh virtual tourLecture
27 May 2021Edinburgh virtual tourVisit
11 May 2021Raphael of Urbino: Artist and ArchitectLecture
13 April 2021Cleopatra: The most Womanly of Woman The most Queenly of QueenLecture
25 March 2021Virtual Tour of Birmingham on ZoomLecture
25 March 2021History and Art in the Birmingham AreaVisit
09 March 2021A Brief Story of WineLecture
09 February 2021Opera: The Melting Pot of Culture Lecture
09 February 2021Caravaggio and his ModelsLecture
21 January 2021Walking through the centuries: Time travel in York (Virtual Tour)Visit
21 January 2021Walking through the centuries: Time travel in York (Virtual tour)Lecture
12 January 2021Beethoven at 250: Classical Music’s RevolutionaryLecture
08 December 2020Debo: Mitford, Cavendish, Devonshire Duchess, Housewife 1920-2014Lecture
03 December 2020Virtual visit to the British MuseumVisit
03 December 2020Virtual visit to the British MuseumLecture
10 November 2020Koh-i-Noor: The Most Famous Diamond in the WorldLecture
13 October 2020The Art of the Steal: Nazi Looting during World War 2Lecture
14 July 2020Pots and Frocks: the world of Grayson Perry Lecture
01 July 2020July 2020 (tbc) Althorp House, Northants CANCELLEDVisit
24 June 2020Wrest Park House, Bedfordshire CANCELLEDVisit
09 June 2020Captain James Cook, Joseph Banks and the Fine Art of Exploration, 1768 CANCELLED Lecture
27 May 2020William Morris and the Arts and Crafts CANCELLED Special Event
14 May 2020Madrid tour 2020 CANCELLEDVisit
12 May 2020Pots and Frocks – the world of Grayson Perry CANCELLEDLecture
23 April 2020Parham House and Gardens, West Sussex CANCELLEDVisit
14 April 2020The Golden Section - Divine proportion in art and architecture CANCELLED Lecture
19 March 2020Pitzhanger Manor and Musical Museum, West London CANCELLED Visit
10 March 2020Art Behind Bars: The Role of the Arts in the Cycle of Crime, Prison and Re-offendingLecture
18 February 2020The British Empire and Imperial India: Images, Architecture and ArtsSpecial Event
11 February 2020A Surgeons View: Anatomical Drawings of Leonardo de Vinci Lecture
23 January 2020Private Tours of Kensington Palace and 18 Stafford TerraceVisit
14 January 2020Bringing Back the Needle: The Story of an ObeliskLecture
11 December 2019Waddesdon ManorVisit
10 December 2019Feasts and Fantasy Lecture
12 November 2019The Genius of René LaliqueLecture
08 October 2019Lost on the Titanic: The Making of the Great Omar BindingLecture
12 September 2019Norfolk Tour 2019Visit
09 July 2019July 9th 2019 The Magnificent Thames, seen by Canaletto, Turner, Monet and others, through 500 years Lecture
19 June 2019Arundel Castle and Lancing ChapelVisit
11 June 2019Indians Buffalos and Storms Indians, Buffalo and Storms: the American West in 19th Century ArtLecture
28 May 2019Undressing AntiquesSpecial Event
18 May 2019Tour of Peleponnese 18th - 26th May 2019Visit
16 May 2019Down House and StandenVisit
14 May 2019Women behind the lens: outstanding female photographers and their contribution to the art of photographyLecture
24 April 2019Van Gogh exhibtion at Tate Britain and visit to the V & AVisit
09 April 2019Cave Paintings and Prehistoric Carvings: can we really call them art? Lecture
13 March 2019Bodleian Library and Ashmolean MuseumVisit
12 March 2019Powder and poison: cosmetics, beauty and the art of portraitureLecture
21 February 2019The Seine River of Light Home to ImpressionismSpecial Event
12 February 2019Whitefriars Glass: A Leading London Glass House 1834-1980Lecture
24 January 2019National Theatre Backstage TourVisit
08 January 2019Van GoghLecture
12 December 2018Hampton CourtVisit
11 December 2018Thomas Heatherwick: ‘the Leonardo da Vinci of our times’ (Sir Terence Conran) Lecture
13 November 2018Giles: His Life, Times and CartoonsLecture
09 October 2018I am the very model: Parody & Satire in the Operas of Gilbert & SullivanLecture
13 September 2018Tour of Northumbria and DurhamVisit
10 July 2018Between Angels and Devils: Botticelli and Renaissance FlorenceLecture
19 June 2018Tour of Puglia, Italy, 19th-26th June 2018Visit
13 June 2018Laverstoke Mill/Bombay Gin DistilleryVisit
12 June 2018The Wallace CollectionLecture
30 May 2018Treasures and the Greatest Collectors of the Royal CollectionSpecial Event
15 May 2018Osborne House and the Isle of WightVisit
08 May 2018The Ancient Silk Road and its Hidden TreasureLecture
18 April 2018Wallace Collection with Lunch. Apsley House and Wellington ArchVisit
10 April 2018The Rock 'n' Roll Era - Pop Art in the Swinging SixtiesLecture
15 March 2018Strawberry Hill and Syon ParkVisit
13 March 2018Gold of the Gods: Treasures of South America and the Search for El DoradoLecture
14 February 2018The Houses of ParliamentSpecial Event
13 February 2018Whistler - A One Man RevolutionLecture
09 January 2018The Making of Venice: From Swamp to SerenissimaLecture
12 December 2017Art UK: Uncovering the Nation's Hidden Oil Painting CollectionLecture
09 December 2017Westminster Abbey Musical Tour and SupperVisit
14 November 2017The Green Man in Myth and ArtLecture
10 October 2017Informality in Portraiture - the first famous woman painterLecture
14 September 2017Devon - 14 to 17 September 2017Visit
13 July 2017Highclere Castle (the home of Downton Abbey)Visit
12 July 2017The Punch and Judy Show (A subversive symbol from Commedia dell'Art to the present day)Lecture
21 June 2017Hammerwood Park, East Sussex and Ightham Moat, KentVisit
13 June 2017The Elusive Artist - Banksy and Street ArtLecture
31 May 2017The Age of Jazz! Art Deco Fashion and StyleSpecial Event
21 May 2017Russia - Moscow and St Petersburg Tour Visit
09 May 2017The History of the Harp - from Mediterranean Antiquity to 20th centuryLecture
04 May 2017Windsor CastleVisit
11 April 2017Treasures of the Turf - the fine and decorative arts of horseracingLecture
04 April 2017Bletchley Park and Woburn AbbeyVisit
14 March 2017Cordoba and beyond: Muslim art and architecture in SpainLecture
16 February 2017Windsor Castle: its History and Royal Occupants, Fire, Restoration and the Queen at WindsorSpecial Event
14 February 2017A View from the Plinth: A Review of Contemporary Public SculptureLecture
25 January 2017Grand Lodge, Freemasons and Templar Church. A talk and tour of The Foundling Museum with Lars TharpVisit
10 January 2017Lancelot "Capability" Brown (1716-1783) Landscape Art and Dame NatureLecture
13 December 2016Inn Signia - Pub SignsLecture
08 December 2016Charterhouse and Bartholomew Church LondonVisit
08 November 2016Faber and Faber - Its designs and historyLecture
11 October 2016Windows on another world: the paintings of Jan Van EyckLecture
08 September 2016Tour of Lincoln September 2016Visit
12 July 2016The Great Impresario: Giorgio VasariLecture
07 July 2016Walmer Castle and Deal Castle, KentVisit
19 June 2016NORTHERN SPAIN 2016 - 3 CENTRE TOURVisit
14 June 2016With just a Needle and ThreadLecture
01 June 2016Catherine the Great: Empress of all the RussiasSpecial Event
19 May 2016Eltham PalaceVisit
10 May 2016Secret Art in the Passport - how we use it to fox the forgersLecture
13 April 2016Walking tour of the Great Fire of London sitesVisit
12 April 2016"An heirloom to be handed down"Lecture
17 March 2016Tate Modern to Tate Britain by boatVisit
08 March 2016John Opie: The Cornish WonderLecture
18 February 2016Medieval Imagery: Wall Paintings and Stained GlassSpecial Event
17 February 2016Backstage at the Royal Opera House, Covent GardenVisit
09 February 2016The Great Fire of London 1666 350th Anniversary LectureLecture
19 January 2016Backstage at the Royal Opera House, Covent GardenVisit
12 January 2016English Furniture Design todayLecture
10 December 2015Chichester visit: Pallant House Gallery, Christmas Markets and CathedralVisit
08 December 2015Christmas at Covent GardenLecture
10 November 2015Richard Parkes Bonington: King in his own DomainLecture
13 October 2015Scandal, Spite and ShuttlecocksLecture
10 September 2015GLASGOW: 10th-14th September 2015Visit
14 July 2015The Scottish ColouristsLecture
09 July 2015Canterbury Cathedral TourVisit
23 June 2015Vivaldi in VeniceSpecial Event
10 June 2015Sheffield Park Gardens via The Bluebell Railway from East GrinsteadVisit
09 June 2015The World of Auctions, Behind the ScenesLecture
03 June 2015Tour: BULGARIA (5 nights, 6 days) with John OsborneVisit
14 May 2015Tour: BULGARIA (5 nights, 6 days) with John Osborne.Visit
12 May 2015CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS 'A View from the Plinth' REPLACED BY 'The Sculpted Horse: themes in Equine Sculpture'Lecture
23 April 2015Farley Farm House, SussexVisit
16 April 2015Lewes Castle and Farley Farm House, SussexVisit
14 April 2015The drama behind the Taj Mahal Lecture
18 March 2015Kenwood House, Hampstead Lane, LondonVisit
10 March 2015And so to VauxhallLecture
18 February 2015The Art of Dining in Victorian EnglandSpecial Event
10 February 2015The Conservation and Restoration of PaintingsLecture
05 February 2015Two Temple Place, Temple Embankment, LondonVisit
13 January 2015The Legendary Lee MillerLecture
09 December 2014Is Christmas in Good Taste?Lecture
20 February 2014The Genius of Michelangelo: a Celebration of his Life and WorksSpecial Event
20 February 2013History of Jewellery Special Event