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BSU Public Series: Is Nature Healing? Exploring the History and Future of the ‘Nature Cure’ with Dr Samantha Walton

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Is Nature Healing? Exploring the History and Future of the ‘Nature Cure’ with Dr Samantha Walton FREE (book your place at bathspalive.com) Join us for the first event in the Bath Spa University Public Lecture series at the Holburne Museum for 2019/20. All are welcome. Visit bathspalive.com to book your free place. The 'nature cure'...

Robertson Lecture 2019: Matthew Williams – Downton Abbey Revealed

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Downton Abbey revealed: The Story of Highclere Castle The enormous success of the television series has made Highclere Castle one of the most recognisable buildings in the country. This lecture will reveal that truth is stranger than fiction, telling the story of the castle and family who own it, the Earls of Carnarvon. Highclere is...

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BSU Public Lecture Series: The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron, and the Making of the Modern World

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

The Regency Revolution: Jane Austen, Napoleon, Lord Byron, and the Making of the Modern World with Professor Robert Morrison Join us for the second event in the Bath Spa University Public Lecture series at the Holburne Museum for 2019/20. All are welcome. Visit bathspalive.com to book your free place. The Regency (1811-1820) is perhaps the...

Talk: Post Poetry with Professor Tim Liardet

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

FREE (Bath Spa Public Lecture Series) Book online at www.bathspalive.com This talk will explore the ‘democratisation of poetry’ and look at poetry’s robust capacity to withstand immense change, looking at the deleterious effects of social media and the internet in general, and how the identity of poetry is beginning to change under pressure of huge...

Talk: Densities of meaning in West Namibian landscapes with Professor Sian Sullivan

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

POSTPONED Please see our Coronavirus page for more details FREE (Bath Spa Public Lecture Series) Book online at www.bathspalive.com Join Sian Sullivan, Professor of Environment and Culture at Bath Spa University, to find out more about her research in west Namibia where she has carried out ethnographic and oral history field work for 25 years. Using spoken...

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Talk: Wordsworth at 250

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

With Jeff Cowton, Professor Stephen Gill, Professor John Strachan and Professor Robert Morrison FREE (Bath Spa Public Lecture Series) POSTPONED To book your place, please email Dr Goodman (h.goodman@bathspa.ac.uk) at Bath Spa University. A celebration of the great Romantic poet (1770-1850) whose collaboration with S.T. Coleridge The Lyrical Ballads was published in Bristol in 1798....

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Islamic Art: Precious and Rare

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Inspired by Precious and Rare: Islamic Metalwork from The Courtauld don’t miss Dr Sussan Babaie, Professor of the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld for a free online talk, Join Dr Sussan Babaie, Professor of the Arts of Iran and Islam at The Courtauld, to discover what is ‘Islamic’ in Islamic Arts, in addition to a...

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Venetian water levels, algae belts… and Canaletto?

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Inspired by our exhibition Canaletto: Painting Venice Professor Dario Camuffo will explore his use of Canaletto’s paintings as a proxy method to study the changes of sea levels in Venice. What can eighteenth-century paintings tell us about modern-day Venice? What information can be extracted from past depictions of the city in order to understand its present?...

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Nicholas Pope In Conversation with George Vasey

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Join Nicholas Pope and curator George Vasey for a conversation on the artist’s current exhibition at the Holburne Portraits of a Marriage and recent projects with The Sunday Painter and Roche Court. George Vasey is an independent curator who has recently worked with organisations including The Welcome Collection, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, and Chapter...

Each Portrait is a Kind of Truth: Picturing Jane Austen

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

‘I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly’.  Elizabeth Bennet’s words to Mr Darcy could apply equally to accounts of Jane Austen herself. What did Jane Austen look like?  The best-authenticated portrait (currently on display as a rare loan at the Holburne) is the sketch by her sister Cassandra, but many people...

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The National Gallery and Longford Castle, a new style of relationship with Sir Nicholas Penny

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Sir Nicholas Penny (former Director of the National Gallery) will deliver a talk “The National Gallery and Longford Castle, a new style of relationship’’. This will be of particular interest to those who visited Longford at the beginning of September, but will be equally fascinating as an insight into how public and private collections can interact...

£10.00

Wordsworth at 250 by Bath Spa University Public Lectures

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

A celebration of the 250th anniversary of the great Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850) About this event A celebration of the 250th anniversary of the great Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770-1850), whose collaboration with S. T. Coleridge, The Lyrical Ballads, was published in the West Country in 1798. This event will feature short talks by...

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