Henley DFAS

Forthcoming lectures

	Thursday 16th January 2025 10.45am and 2.15pm at The Henley Rugby Club Lecturer: Jo Walton Figures in the City: Picturing People in Post War London In the years after the Second World War, London was dark, grimy and gap-toothed by bomb damage. Yet alongside austerity and the frantic race to rebuild and refurbish there was also enormous creativity and a longing for beauty and glamour. (Please click on the blue print above to continue reading)
	20th February 2025 10.45am, repeated 2.15pm. Live transmission 10.45am only Lecturer: Liz Woolley William Morris - Lord Nuffield's Great Generosity to the Oxford Colleges William Morris, Lord Nuffield, probably did more than any other individual to transform Oxford in the t
	20th March 2025 Lecturer: Mary Sharp The Fall into Knowledge: The Story of Prometheus and how his plight has captivated and influenced writers and artists over the years Prometheus was a Titan who, according to Greek legend, created the human race and then famously incurre
	17th April 2025 Lecturer: James Renshaw Persepolis: Art, Architecture and Ideology of the Persian Empire The Persian empire exploded into life during the middle of the 6th century BC and was the largest empir
	15th May 2025 Lecturer: Lydia Bauman British Art from Egg to Bacon Survey of a hundred years of Art in Britain from the Victorian Leopold Augustus Egg to Francis Bacon.
	19th June 2025 Lecturer: Sarah Deere-Jones Soft Angelic Whispers: The Hidden History of the Medieval Harp Many people around the world today believe the harp to be an exclusively 'Celtic' instrument and are un
	Thursday 18th September 2025 Lecturer: Rupert Dickens Hogarth at the Hustings: The Election Entertainment Series and the Birth of Political Satire At the root of the long British tradition of political satire is William Hogarth’s Election Entertainme
	Thursday 16th October 2025 Lecturer: Angela Findlay The Empty Chair in Contemporary Art from van Gogh to Ai Weiwei Angela Findlay: The Empty Chair in Contemporary Art from van Gogh to Ai Weiwei
	Thursday 20th November AGM Lecturer: Henrietta Hammant A History of Inuit Art in the Canadian Arctic From religion to the environment, and colonial encounters to the power of the Western art market, this
	Thursday 11th December 2025 Lecturer: Chris Bradley Who is Santa Claus? Art from St Nicholas to Father Christmas Nicholas was the Greek Bishop of Myra, a 4th century port in Anatolia.