PROGRAMME oF TALKS

Our Talks are held in the Fittleworth Village Hall at 2:00pm on the 1st Tuesday of each month. Visitors are welcome to join our talks for £10 per visit in 2025.

Click the title of a talk to see information about the talk and the speaker.

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Aboriginal artwork, Macassar Vessel, 19th centuryMUSEUM OF SOUTH AUSTARLIA

TUESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2026

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART:
ROCK, BARK, OCHRE

REBECCA HOSSACK


Apse Mosaic in Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy. Photo by Petar Milošević

TUESDAY 3 MARCH 2026

THE MOSAICS OF RAVENNA:
FOR THE GLORY OF KINGS, EMPERORS AND EMPRESSES

DR HELENA RUFUS- WARD


TUESDAY 7 APRIL 2026

BATTERSEA POWER STATION - FOUR ICONIC CHIMNEYS

IAN SWANKIE

Battersea Power Station, Tosh Marshall


Isabella Thorpe influencing Catherine Morland, Hugh Thomson, Northanger Abbey, 1897.

TUESDAY 5TH MAY 2026

GIRLS BEHAVING BADLY: JANE AUSTEN’S WICKED WOMEN

ANNALIE TALENT


Brooch with female head (René Lalique) Photo by Ángel M. Felicísimo from Mérida, España

TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2026

THE GENIUS OF RENE LALIQUE 

ANDY MCCONNELL


English Country Garden, Sussex

WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2026

GARDENING STUDY DAY
THE SOUL, ART AND HEALING POWER OF GARDENS

TIMOTHY WALKER


Vanessa Bell by George Charles Beresford (1864–1938).

TUESDAY 7 JULY 2026

VANESSA BELL’S ART AND HER TANGLED BLOOMSBURY GROUP RELATIONSHIPS

RAYMOND WARBURTON


TUESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2026

THE ENIGMA OF EDWARD ELGAR

ROGER ASKEW

Edward Elgar, photographed in 1931 by Herbert Lambert.


TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2026

POMPEII: DIGGING DEEPER WITH THE MUDDY ARCHAEOLOGIST 

GILLIAN HOVELL

Atrium of the House of the Ancient Hunt in Pompeii watercolor by Luigi Bazzani