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  1. LGBTQ+ History Month 'Flash' Talks

    LGBTQ+ History Month 'Flash' Talks

    School of Art History and the School of History

    Hosted by the School of Art History and the School of History, this event presents a series of short and informal 'Flash' talks by students and...

  2. Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Elizabeth Petcu

    Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Elizabeth Petcu

    'Dürer's Precision'

    Join us for Dr Elizabeth Petcu's Research Lecture on 'Dürer's Precision' and a wine reception afterwards at 79 North Street.

  3. The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    The Hall of Clestrain, Orkney

    Clestrain Hall was built in the 1760s and was the childhood home of arctic explorer John Rae. It is an exceptional survival of Georgian architecture and is...

  4. Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Richard McClary

    Art History Research Lecture -- Dr Richard McClary

    'Fake or Real? Questioning the Authenticity of Mina'i Ware Bowls'

    Join us for Dr Richard McClary's Research Lecture on 'Fake or Real? Questioning the Authenticity of Mina'i Ware Bowls' and a wine...

  5. Art History Research Lecture -- Seif El Rashidi

    Art History Research Lecture -- Seif El Rashidi

    'Cotton Palaces for Kings and Tourists: Continuities and Revivals in the Egyptian Tentmaking Tradition from the 1880-1980'

    Join us for Seif El Rashidi's Research Lecture on 'Cotton Palaces for Kings and Tourists: Continuities and Revivals in the Egyptian Tentmaking...

  6. Write and sip: Celebrating Lunar New Year with Chinese calligraphy and tea
    Limited access

    Write and sip: Celebrating Lunar New Year with Chinese calligraphy and tea

    Organised by the School of Art History's EDI Committee with support from @79 Makerspace funding, this social event promotes diversity, inclusion and...

  7. Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Voyage round Great Britain: life at the coast 200 years ago

    Exactly two hundred years ago, William Daniell published the final part of his eight-volume Voyage Round Great Britain. Daniell had started his journey in 1813...

  8. Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society (IMHS) Annual Lecture 2026 --- What is museum closure?

    Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society (IMHS) Annual Lecture 2026 --- What is museum closure?

    by Prof Fiona Candlin, Professor of Museology and Director of the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck, University of London.

    What is museum closure? Over the last two years the Mapping Museums Lab at Birkbeck (University of London) have been collecting data on which museums have...

  9. Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

    Rising Damp; the life and times of an Iron Age wetland settlement in Black Loch of Myrton

    DR ANNE CRONE, AOC Archaeology, will be talking about how long-running excavations at Black Loch of Myrton in Dumfries and Galloway have transformed our...

  10. Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    Exceptional, massive, significant, mysterious! Close-up on The Melsonby Iron Age Hoard

    DR SOPHIA ADAMS, British Museum, tells the story of a remarkable find. In December 2021 a metal detectorist reported a possible in-situ deposit of Iron Age...

  11. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    State propaganda through art and sport in fascist Italy

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  12. Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society seminar -- Martin Barnes

    Institute for Museums, Heritage and Society seminar -- Martin Barnes

    'Why Photography Matters: Changing Contexts at the V&A'

    Since its invention in the 1820s, photography has been used and understood in many ways: as a technology of seeing, a social document, a commercial transaction,...

  13. Entangled Histories: Art and Archives between Algeria and France, c.1945 to the Present

    Entangled Histories: Art and Archives between Algeria and France, c.1945 to the Present

    Study Day Seminar

    This study day seminar brings five scholars together whose work is at the centre of recent investigations into the entangled histories of modern art,...

  14. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    Painted Links: An exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  15. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    From Ancient Greece to modern spectacle: the visual culture of the Olympic Games

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  16. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    Oval balls and cubist players

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  17. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    Cycling in Modern and Contemporary Art

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...

  18. School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    School of Art History Online Lecture Series: Athletics & Aesthetics -- Sport in Art History

    Women in sport in art

    This new School of Art History Online Lecture Series is an exploration of the history of golf in Scotland told through the collections of The R&A World Golf...