![The Winter Palace, St Petersburg - home of the State Hermitage Museum - subject of April lecture The Winter Palace, St Petersbourg - home of the State Hermitage museum](images/Hermitagex.jpg)
2016 Programme
Date | Subject | Speaker |
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20 January 2016 | The founders and treasures of the Wallace Collection | Stephen Duffy |
17 February 2016 | Temples, tombs and treasures - in search of the Queen of Sheba | Louise Schofield |
16 March 2016 | The role of the arts in the cycle of crime, prison and reoffending | Angela Findlay |
20 April 2016 | Imperial patronage: the Art Collection of Catherine the Great | Theodora Clarke |
18 May 2016 | Life and times of Jane Austen | Jane Tapley |
15 June 2016 | The Georgian house around the world | Roger Mitchell |
21 September 2016 | From flea-pit to picture palace: cinema architecture in Britain | Andrew Davies |
19 October 2016 | A touch of the sun: midsummer haunts opera from the Fairy Queen to Die Meistersinger | Sarah Lenton |
30 November 2016 | AGM at 9.45am followed by Charles Saatchi: a modern Medici? |
Barry Venning |
18 January 2017 | Three great families and their gardens: a history of the Astors, the Rothschilds and the Sackville-Wests | Caroline Rayman |