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23 September 2026Identifying Antiques! An Antiques Roadshow expert comes to Buckfast Special Event
23 September 2026Special Interest Day - Identifying Antiques!Lecture
11 June 2026The healing power of plantsLecture
21 May 2026Ugbrooke House and GardensVisit
14 May 2026A character assassination of Mary MagdaleneLecture
09 April 2026Trick or Treat?: Fakes and Forgeries in the Art MarketLecture
12 March 2026The Glasgow Boys: painting in Scotland 1875-1914Lecture
12 February 2026Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: the golden age of Mexican paintingLecture
08 January 2026Mad Men and Artists: how the advertising industry exploited fine artLecture
11 December 2025Art Deco: celebrating the centenary of the 1925 Paris expoLecture
13 November 2025Through a glass darkly: a study of glass through the eyes of the artistLecture
09 October 2025With a little help from their friendsLecture
11 September 2025Cult of the South PacificSpecial Event
11 September 2025Special Interest Day: Cult of the South PacificLecture
12 June 2025John Singer Sargent: the Private RadicalLecture
04 June 2025Shilstone HouseVisit
21 May 2025Pierrot Heroes: the Evolution of Seaside EntertainmentSpecial Event
08 May 2025Great Railway Stations: Evoking the Spirit of Romance and AdventureLecture
10 April 2025Renaissance Rivals: how competition between Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael provided the fuel that drove the Italian RenaissanceLecture
13 March 2025The Collection of Charles I: Acquisition and DispersalLecture
13 February 2025Nicholas Hilliard and the Art of the MiniatureLecture
09 January 2025David Hockney: The Old Master of the Modern WorldLecture
12 December 2024Damien HirstLecture
14 November 2024Women Artists from Gentileschi to EminLecture
10 October 2024Handbags at Dawn! Great Operatic RivalriesLecture
29 September 2024The Castles, Historic Houses & Heritage of Kent: 5 day tourVisit
10 September 2024Cultural Revolution in the Heart of EuropeSpecial Event
13 June 2024The Bayeux Tapestry: an embroidered taleLecture
23 May 2024Day trip to TavistockVisit
09 May 2024Turner's Work in the West CountryLecture
11 April 2024Passionate Potters: from De Morgan to LeachLecture
14 March 2024How to Read a Painting: what can we learn from jewellery shown in Art?Lecture
08 February 2024Why Can't We Read Them? Conserving the National Trust's librariesLecture
02 February 2024The Dartmoor Photographs of Chris Chapman: 29 January - 2 February 2024Special Event
11 January 2024Banksy: fraud or genius?Lecture
14 December 2023Here We Are Again: the great British pantomimeLecture
09 November 2023Exploding the Myths - Discovering the true story of St Ives ArtLecture
12 October 2023The Art of Atonement: how Germany commemorates the Second World WarLecture
14 September 2023The Second Sex? Women in the Italian Renaissance, Art and Society – Courtesans and NunsSpecial Event
08 June 2023The Art and Culture of Fin-de-Siecle ViennaLecture
01 June 2023Tour of Great Fulford House: 1 June 2023Visit
19 May 2023A guided visit to St Peter & St Paul Church, Teigngrace: 18 and 19 May 2023Visit
11 May 2023Turner vs Constable: the great British paint-offLecture
25 April 2023Exeter Cathedral Roof tour: 19 and 25 April 2023Visit
13 April 2023Samuel Pepys - his life and timesLecture
09 March 2023The Making of Landscape PhotographsLecture
09 February 2023Theatre Design from Temple to Playhouse, into the picture frame and outLecture
12 January 2023The Cult of the South Pacific - from Cook to GauguinLecture
08 December 2022Exeter Cathedral: A Portrait in Decorated GothicLecture
10 November 2022A Tour of Big BenLecture
13 October 2022The Borgias, the most infamous family in history?Lecture
09 June 2022Grayson Perry Pots & Frocks: the world of Grayson PerryLecture
12 May 2022From Desktop to Bureau - Writing Furniture from the 16th to 18th CenturyLecture
14 April 2022El Greco in ToledoLecture
10 March 2022The Imperial Easter Eggs of Carl FabergéLecture
10 February 2022The Subtle Science and Exact Art of Colour in English Garden Design - Why Gardening can rank as a Fine Art.Lecture
13 January 2022The Elgin MarblesLecture
09 December 2021The Bloomsbury GroupLecture
11 November 2021CaravaggioLecture
14 October 2021Angels from the Realms of Glory. The Wilton Diptych and the Roof of Westminster Hall.Lecture
10 June 2021THE MUSIC AND LIFE OF J S BACHLecture
13 May 2021JAN VAN EYCKLecture
08 April 2021ZAHA HADID - ARCHITECTURAL SUPERSTARLecture
11 March 2021THE FIRST MODERN BRITISH ARTISTS? THE RADICAL AND SCANDALOUS PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD.Lecture
11 February 2021CAVE PAINTINGS AND PREHISTORIC CARVINGS: CAN WE REALLY CALL THEM ART?Lecture
14 January 2021FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVELecture
10 December 2020'SING WE YULE' A MUSICAL PORTRAIT OF A MEDIEVAL CHRISTMASLecture
26 November 2020THE TEMPLERS OF STOVER AND HAYTOR GRANITE TRAMWAYLecture
12 November 2020GODS, HEROES AND MORTALSLecture
22 October 2020JOHN COOKE BOURNE: AN ARTIST AT THE BIRTH OF ENGLAND'S RAILWAYSLecture
08 October 2020WOMEN BEHIND THE LENS: OUTSTANDING FEMALE PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHYLecture
03 September 2020 ‘A mound of treasures from far countries was fetched aboard her’ : The Story of the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial.Lecture
13 August 2020HANS HOLBEIN : TUDOR PORTRAITSLecture
13 February 2020Leonardo da Vinci The Anatomical Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci: A Surgeon's ViewLecture
09 January 2020The Art of the Hero Commemorating Scott of the AntarcticLecture
12 December 2019Elizabeth I to Elizabeth Taylor A History of their JewelleryLecture
14 November 2019Tribal Rugs and Dowry Weaving Antique Treasures of the Black Tents of The Persian and Central Asian NomadsLecture
10 October 2019Van Gogh What Really Happened at the Yellow House in Arles in 1888Lecture