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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture: Professor Gábor Betegh, University of Cambridge

    Sarah Broadie Memorial Lecture: Professor Gábor Betegh, University of Cambridge

    Plato on forgetting and re-understanding

    For further information please email [email protected].

  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. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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,...