PROGRAMME oF TALKS

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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.

Click an image to find out more about it and its source.


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

TUESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2026

AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL ART:
ROCK, BARK, OCHRE

REBECCA HOSSACK

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

TUESDAY 5TH MAY 2026

GIRLS BEHAVING BADLY: JANE AUSTEN’S WICKED WOMEN

ANNALIE TALENT

Victoire 2, Rene Lalique, Photo Credit: Morio, CC BY-SA 3.0

TUESDAY 2 JUNE 2026

THE GENIUS OF RENE LALIQUE 

ANDY MCCONNELL

WEDNESDAY 24 JUNE 2026

GARDENING STUDY DAY

TIMOTHY WALKER

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

TUESDAY 6 OCTOBER 2026

POMPEII: DIGGING DEEPER WITH THE MUDDY ARCHAEOLOGIST 

GILLIAN HOVELLNGTON

TUESDAY 3 NOVEMBER 2026

SUMPTUOUS VERONESE: THE DEPICTION OF LUXURY GOODS IN 16TH CENTURY VENICE

CHANTAL BROTHERTON-RATCLIFFE