UK EVENT
Thu 19 Sep 2024
UK Study Tour, 19 – 21 Sept 2024. Based in Sheffield, this three-day visit will include an archivist-led tour of Renishaw Hall and curator-led tours of the two museums at Cannon Hall, both the...
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Thu 15 Aug 2024
Simon Spier, Curator of Ceramics & Glass 1600-1800 will show us around his recently curated temporary display of British popular pottery. Henry Willett (1823-1905), a Victorian philanthropist and...
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Tue 16 Jul 2024
Our day will start at Pallant House with two private tours. Chief Curator Melanie Vandenbrouck will introduce the house and two special exhibitions: `The Shape of Things: Still Life in Britain’...
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Wed 19 Jun 2024
The David Parr House is an extraordinary time capsule of Arts & Crafts decoration in a late 19th-century artisan’s house. Parr used the knowledge gained through his long-standing work for F.R....
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Wed 29 May 2024
Dorich House is the former studio home of the sculptor Dora Gordine and her husband the Hon. Richard Hare, a scholar and collector of Russian art. The building was completed in 1936 to Gordine’s...
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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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