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Our Lectures this year
A Passion for Tea: Ceremonies, Fashion & Styles, from East to West, culminating in the Great British Cuppa
A Passion for Tea: Ceremonies, Fashion & Styles, from East to West, culminating in the Great British Cuppa
Foto: Free hot tea afternoon image, public domain CC0 photo, rawpixel.com --- In 1660 Samuel Pepys made a diary entry ‘I did send for a cup of tea – a China drink – of which I had never drunk before’. But the story of tea drinking had started in China over a thousand years earlier, and by the 13th century the famous rituals of tea, ‘cha no yu’ were established in Japan. By the 18th century tea was the fashionable drink throughout Europe – subject to crippling taxes and still only available from China, frequently adulterated along the way. Differences between green and black teas...
160 Years of London Underground design and architecture
160 Years of London Underground design and architecture
Foto: London Underground © pickpik.com, Royalty-Free -- Covers surprising attempts to create some graphic unit, even in the 1860s and 70s, expansion of the Underground and the need to create some cohesion between the different operating companies. Leslie Green's architecture and the Arts & Crafts movement, Frank Pick, Edward Johston's typeface, Charles Holden's architecture and the Streamline Moderne/Art Deco movement, the News Works Programme, post war austerity/design, Victoria Line, loss of Johnson and rescue by Kono, Jubilee Line Extension/architecture, creation of TfL, recent schemes a...
Painting in the Jungle of Paris: an exploration of the life and work of Henri Rousseau
Painting in the Jungle of Paris: an exploration of the life and work of Henri Rousseau
Foto: Henri Rousseau "Der Traum", © Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons -- “We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style.” Henri Rousseau said these words to Pablo Picasso in 1908, but how did Henri Rousseau, who had no formal artistic training, come to be accepted by the avant-garde artists of his time and today have his art works hang in many of the world’s greatest art collections? In this lecture I will explore the fascinating and enigmatic life and work of the, sometimes called, ‘primitive’ artist Henri Rousseau. The lecture i...
The Medieval Guildhall – London’s nerve centre for 2,000 years
The Medieval Guildhall – London’s nerve centre for 2,000 years
Foto: Guildhall, City of London ; Prioryman, CC BY-SA 4.0 --- In the centre of the City of London stands its ancient headquarters, the medieval Guildhall, one of the capital’s hidden gems. The present building dates from 1411 and is still in use today. The whole building stands on the site of London’s Roman amphitheatre the remains of which are still visible today. This lecture describes the Guildhall exterior and interior. We look at some of the key monuments in the building and then study some of the many paintings depicting the Guildhall’s rich history contained in the adjacent Guildh...
Making & Unmaking: The elemental Land Art of Julie Brook
Making & Unmaking: The elemental Land Art of Julie Brook
Foto: Sculpture Jura, © by Julie Brook --- Many viewers of a BBC4 profile of artists who work out in nature, presented by Dr James Fox, were haunted by the fire stacks of the only female artist featured, Julie Brook. My lecture explores this fascinating artist and the range of her work over four decades in some of the world’s wild places, centred always on her passion for the islands and coast of West Scotland where she lives. From drawings, oil painting and film to her powerful physical interventions in the landscapes of Britain, North Africa and Japan that engage with the elements of eart...
David Niven on Screen – from extra to institution
David Niven on Screen – from extra to institution
Foto: David Niven , Unknown press photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons --- Niven’s remarkable career explored, with an examination of his enduring place in public affection. Rising from studio extra to Hollywood leading man, although Niven remained characteristically modest about his abilities they were in fact considerable, as this lecture demonstrates. Particular attention is paid to his military roles, and insights are offered into the huge range of his wartime activities. From his personification of an ideal young subaltern in The Way Ahead, to the reality of being a Lt.-Co...
Our Events this year
We also offer visits to museums and places of historical interest as well as outings in the vicinity of Berlin.
The next event you can always find straight on this website at the top of the grey shaded area.
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Weitere Events
Darüberhinaus bieten wir Museumsbesuche und die Besichtigung historisch interessanter Stätten sowie Ausflüge in die Umgebung von Berlin an.
Das jeweils kommende Event finden sie genau auf dieser Website an erster Stelle des grau hinterlegten Feldes.
Our next Lecture:
A Passion for Tea: Ceremonies, Fashion & Styles, from East to West, culminating in the Great British Cuppa
A Passion for Tea: Ceremonies, Fashion & Styles, from East to West, culminating in the Great British Cuppa
Foto: Free hot tea afternoon image, public domain CC0 photo, rawpixel.com --- In 1660 Samuel Pepys made a diary entry ‘I did send for a cup of tea – a China drink – of which I had never drunk before’. But the story of tea...
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