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Roger Mendham – Monopoly: A History

Guests are always welcome at our lectures. Just come along and pay £7 on the door. No reservation required. Guildhall, Sandwich

Monopoly is one of the world’s most popular and enduring board games, but how well do you really know it? Take a photographic journey around the Monopoly boards and expect some surprises.

Adam Busiakiewicz – Women Making Music in Art

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Using paintings by the likes of Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi, Vermeer, Watteau, Joshua Reynolds and Thomas Lawrence, this talk will chart the various meanings, symbolism and iconography associated with women musicians.

Alice White – Ways to Look at Painting – an artist’s perspective

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Alice provides a painter’s perspective on famous artworks from the 17th to the 21st centuries. Rembrandt and Turner are revealed as artistic risk-takers, whose new combinations of glazes, surfaces, pigments and processes re-defined the...

Marie-Anne Mancio – The Only Blond in the World – Pauline BotyMarie

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British Pop artist Pauline Boty is finally the subject of monographs, a biography and a forthcoming documentary film (Summer 2024). Known in her lifetime as a painter contemporary of Peter Blake, Hockney, Derek Boshier,...

James Vaux – Viking Gods and Valkyries – the art of Norse Mythology

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When we walk into any gallery, why do we see so many depictions of the Greek and Roman gods and goddesses, but not Viking ones? This lecture explores how Norse myths and legends have...

Amy Lin – A Village in Heaven – Stanley Spencer’s Cookham

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Few artists are as rooted in a place as Stanley Spencer and his beloved home village of Cookham. This Thames-side village was not only his birthplace, his home for most of his life, and...

Denise Heywood – Legend and Lustre – Jim Thompson and Thai silk

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Jim Thompson arrived in Bangkok as a US army officer in 1945, fell in love with it and stayed. Captivated by the beauty of Thai silk, an ancient craft in decline, he resuscitated it...

Sandy Burnett – From Tchaikovsky to Tin Pan Alley

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How Bach brings the Christmas story alive in his Christmas Oratorio, written for Lutheran congregations in 1730's Leipzig.