Date

Lecture title

Venue *

Wed 21 Sept

Morning meeting

Gloriana : Queen Elizabeth I, Woman and Icon

Terry Pearson

Ruislip

Wed 28 Sept

Outing

Claydon House and Gardens

Thur 22 Sept

Evening meeting

Berlin Old and New  

Clare Ford-Wille

Moor Park

Wed 19 Oct    

Morning meeting

Casanova : Food Writer

Ian Kelly

Ruislip

20-24 Oct

Visit to Berlin

The Art and History of Berlin

Wed 26 Oct

Outing

Eltham Palace and Danson House

Thur 27 Oct   

Evening meeting

Abyssinia : 3000 years of Ethiopian art and history from Solomon and Sheba to Haile Selassie   

Chris Bradley

Moor Park

Tue 1 Nov  

Special Interest Day  

Touching the Sublime :  English Medieval Manuscript Illumination

Mark Cottle

Moor Park

Wed 16 Nov   

Morning meeting

Leonardo da Vinci at the Court of Milan

Shirley Smith

Ruislip

Thur 24 Nov   

Evening lecture preceded by an informal Supper

Queen Victoria : Success through Portraiture and her Struggle for the Throne  

Kate Williams

Moor Park

Wed 7  Dec

Outing

Christmas Lunch at Blenheim Palace

2012

Tue 10 Jan

Special Interest Day  

Silver and Social Custom

Ian Pickford

Moor Park

Wed 18 Jan    

Morning meeting

Science through the eyes of the artists  

David Cross

Ruislip

Thur 26 Jan

Outing

Leonardo Exhibition at the National Gallery

Thur 26 Jan

Evening meeting

Roland Penrose : The Friendly Surrealist  

Antony Penrose

Moor Park

Wed 15 Feb

Morning meeting

Batty about Pots  

David Battie

Ruislip

Wed 22 Feb  

Outing

Strawberry Hill House and Brentford Musical Museum

Thur 23 Feb

Evening meeting

A Celebration of the Seasons in Art, Poetry and Music

Elizabeth Rumbelow

Moor Park

Tue 6 March  

Special Interest Day

Japan’s Artistic Encounters with the West

Marie Therese Barrett

Moor Park

Wed 21 March  

Morning meeting

Most Excellent Tree : The Changing Image of the Cross through the centuries

Christopher Herbert

Ruislip

Wed 28 March (new date)

Outing

Theatre Royal and National Portrait Gallery

Thur 22 March  

Evening lecture preceded by an informal Supper

Legacy of Love :  Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940

Bob Freidus

Moor Park

Wed 18 April

Morning meeting

The Development of the Nude in Renaissance  Art  

Norman Coady

Ruislip

23-26 April

Visit  

Liverpool  - City of Culture

Wed 16 May

Morning meeting

Art and the Garden:  gardens as setting and symbolism in paintings  

Twigs Way

Ruislip

Wed 23 May

Outing

Wellington Arch and Apsley House

Wed 6 June

Outing

RHS Wisley

Wed 20 June

10.30 am AGM followed by Morning Lecture

Linley, the continuing tradition of English cabinet making

Nicholas Merchant

Ruislip