Art & History

It is with great sadness that I have to inform members that Peter Holley, who was due to give his very first talk to our Art & History Group on […]

Speaker: Keith Smith In the late 15 th Century, the Spanish Catholic Monarchs, Isabel and Ferdinand, used their children to create a complex web of alliances mainly to curtail the […]

Speaker: Gary Johnson Learn how Juan Garcia a chicken farmer from Barcelona: A fascinating true story not to be missed!

Speaker: Angela Chantry Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun exerted her considerable charm to become the friend, and then official portraitist, of Marie Antoinette. Though profitable, this role made her a public […]

Due to a cancellation, I have decided to repeat this talk, which I previously gave approximately six years ago, about my favourite artist, the lad from Bradford, David Hockney. It […]

Due to some problems with the A & H group loud speaker I have had to delay the scheduled talk on the History of the Automobile and replace it with […]

  Speaker: Rosalind Miranda Edward Hopper, the best-known American realist of the inter-war period, painted the world as an alienating, often vacuous place, with everyone in his works appearing terribly […]

Speaker: Alan Hunton Serendipity is a remarkable phenomenon which describes a most beneficial outcome achieved purely by chance. We will see that a significant number of scientific discoveries throughout history […]

Speaker: Angela Chantry Considered by many to be the greatest flamenco dancer of all time, Carmen Amaya gave her own definition to the art of flamenco. Her career began at […]

Speaker: Rosalind Miranda As a lead-up to the New Deal in the USA in the 1930s & some of the artists who were helped by this program, I will start […]

Speaker: Angela Chantry Considered by many to be the greatest flamenco dancer of all time, Carmen Amaya gave her own definition to the art of flamenco. Her career began at […]

Speaker: Alan Hunton Ancient civilisations had little understanding of our planet and the general opinion was that it was flat or saucer shaped. All the heavenly bodies appeared to revolve […]

Speaker: Peter Atkinson We are absolutely delighted to welcome back one of our favourite speakers, Peter Atkinson, who is returning to this area for a short time from his new […]

Speaker: David Ebsworth Elihu Yale is a major figure in our history, though now mostly forgotten. One of the first nabobs, (a Muslim official or governor under the Mogul empire) Yale bequeathed […]