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.

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


TUESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2026

THE ENIGMA OF EDWARD ELGAR

ROGER ASKEW

Edward Elgar, photographed in 1931 by Herbert Lambert.



TUESDAY 2 NOVEMBER 2026

SUMPTUOUS VERONESE: THE DEPICTION  OF LUXURY GOODS IN SIXTEENTH CENTURY VENICE

CHANTAL BROTHERTON-RATCLIFFE


Claude Monet, Road to the Village of Vétheuil, Snow Effect, 1879.

Museum of Fine Arts, St Petersburg, Florida. Public domain.

TUESDAY 1 DECEMBER 2026

THE WHITE MANTLE OF WINTER
IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS OF SNOW

JULIAN HALSBY


Canaletto, 1697–1768, Westminster Bridge, with the Lord Mayor's Procession on the Thames, 1747,

Oil on canvas, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection, B1976.7.94.


2 MARCH 2027

SHOCKING SCHIAPARELLI!

ALEXANDRA EPPS