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10 November 2026From Tchaikovsky to Tin Pan Alley – Uplifting Music for Christmas
13 October 2026Investigating Mediaeval Churches
08 September 2026Scandinavian Modern: Behind the Scenes
09 June 2026John Singer Sargent and Fashion
12 May 2026Colour and the Artist’s Palette – Feeling Blue
07 April 2026The Century of Gold: Spanish Art in the age of Velázquez
10 March 2026How Great Design Influenced the Railways
10 February 2026The Big Three in Florence: Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael
13 January 2026Fabergé: The Life and Work of the World’s Greatest Goldsmith
09 December 2025The Making of Landscape Photography
11 November 2025King and Collector - The art of Henry VIII
07 October 2025Jan Breughel - The entire world on his panel
09 September 2025Mid - 18th century English Rococo silver
10 June 2025Fakes and Fortunes
13 May 2025A Yorkshire Textile Renaissance
08 April 2025Wild men of the North - Tom Thompson and the group of Seven
11 March 2025Vases and Volcanoes
11 February 2025Empowering People - The real voice of street art
07 January 2025A Bit of a Carry On!
10 December 2024Wilde about Oscar
12 November 2024A Medieval Embroidered Folded Almanac
08 October 2024A Potted History of England -- the Story of British Pottery over 6,000 Years
10 September 2024Nicholas and Alexandra -- Tyrants and Martyrs of Imperial Russia
11 June 2024The Art of the Hero -- Commemorating Scott of the Antarctic
07 May 2024Betrayal -- the Story of Samson and Delilah in Music and Art
09 April 2024Murder Most Florid -- how Plants help solve Crime!
12 March 2024Great Operatic Rivalries - Handbags at dawn?
13 February 2024Photography comes of Age
09 January 2024Food and Art through the Ages
12 December 2023Here We Go Again - The Great British Pantomine
14 November 2023The Stained Glass Windows of William Morris and friends
10 October 2023The Cult of Celebrity: Omai the Exotic and Joshua Reynolds
12 September 2023Music in Art
13 June 2023The Housekeeper's Tale: the women who really ran the English Country House
09 May 2023Picasso and his Muses – L’Amour Fou
11 April 2023The Paintings of Hieronymus Bosch
14 March 2023Britain’s Canal History & Heritage
07 February 2023 Images of the British Empire
10 January 2023The Mistress of Menace and the Master of Suspense – Daphne du Maurier and Alfred Hitchcock
13 December 2022A Brief History of Wine
08 November 2022Dale Chihuly – The World’s Foremost Glass Artist
11 October 2022The Silk Road and the Arts of China
13 September 2022Raphael – Painter of Perfection
14 June 2022Shock! Horror! Probe! The Art and Artifice of Fleet Street
10 May 2022The Age of Jazz
12 April 2022The Healing Power of Plants
08 March 2022Polperro – Cornwall’s Forgotten Arts Centre
08 February 2022The Arnolfini and their World
11 January 2022SS Great Britain: From Launch to Re-Launch
07 December 2021Is Christmas in Good Taste?
09 November 2021Churchill: An Inspirational Life in Photographs, Words and Paintings
12 October 2021When Britain Clicked – the Swinging Sixties
07 September 2021 Getting under their Skins: Finding Character and Story in Renaissance Art
08 June 2021Caravaggio - Murderer or Genius?
11 May 2021The Minoans of Crete - the first Europeans
13 April 2021The Genius of Beethoven
09 March 2021Picturing the Noble Savage
09 February 2021Barbara Hepworth
12 January 2021What Happened in the Yellow House in Arles in 1888 (Gauguin and Van Gogh)
08 December 2020Nothing says Christmas like an Axe Fight
12 May 2020The Age of Jazz
14 April 2020SS Great Britain: from launch to relaunch
10 March 2020Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera - the Golden Age of Mexican Painting
11 February 2020Lawrence of Arabia: Excavating a Legend
14 January 2020Edouard Manet and Music
10 December 2019The Journey of the Magi - 1700 Years of the Three Kings
12 November 2019Garbo to Garland - the Magical Art of Hollywood
08 October 2019David Hockney - 'The Old Master of Modern Art'
10 September 2019The Golden Age of British Watercolour
07 May 2019Foreigners in London -1570-1677: The Artists who Changed British History
09 April 2019The Punch & Judy Show
12 March 2019Masonry, Manuscripts and Music - a journey through Medieval England
12 February 2019Inspired by Stonehenge
08 January 2019To the Far Side of the World! Captain James Cook & The Enlightenment REPLACED BY Blast from the Past, Part Two
11 December 2018How to be Good - Story-Telling and Morality in Victorian Paintings
13 November 2018The Spanish Portrait - from El Greco to Picasso
09 October 2018A Personal Heaven: The Paintings of Stanley Spencer
11 September 2018Vivaldi in Venice
08 May 2018Posters of the Belle Epoque
10 April 2018The Most Infamous Family in History? —The Borgias
14 March 2018St Ives and its Painters
13 March 2018The Foundations of Fashion —the History of Underwear from the 18th to the 20th Century
13 February 2018Temples, Tombs and Treasures: In Search of the Queen of Sheba
09 January 2018The Making of Landscape Photographs
12 December 2017St Nicholas of Myra and Santa Claus, a Case of Mistaken Identity
14 November 2017Sibelius and the Birth of Finland
10 October 2017Childrens Book Illustrations
12 September 2017Francis Bacon
09 May 2017Riviera Paradise: Art, Design and Pleasure in the 1920s
11 April 2017Medieval Illuminated Books of Hours
14 March 2017Lancelot "Capability" Brown and Humphrey Repton: English landscape design in changing times 1738-1816
14 February 2017The Cult of Gloriana: Art, Music and Personality at the court of the Virgin Queen
10 January 2017From Magic Lanterns to Metro Goldwyn Mayer: the birth of the Silver Screen and the Artists it inspired
13 December 2016A Blast from the Past
08 November 2016Antonio Gaudi
11 October 2016Telling the Time through the Ages
13 September 2016L.S. Lowry - A Visionary Artist

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