Lectures are held at the Community Centre, Cornwalls Meadow, Buckingham (unless otherwise stated) on Wednesdays at 8.00pm prompt. Wine is available from 7.30pm. Guests are welcome at £7 per lecture (up to 3 times annually).
Spring 2012 - Serendipity
 Wednesday 21st March |
John Piper and the English Landscape Traditions John Piper's work represents a subtle interplay between 20thcentury ideas and the tradition of English Romantic landscape painting. In his creation of dramatic and pastoral atmosphere he is heir to Constable and Turner and the English water colourists. |
Mary Acton |
Summer 2012 -Time
 Wednesday 18th April
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The Life and Times of Sundials |
Kevin Karney |
 Wednesday 16th May
AGM 7.45pm |
John Leland - A Tudor Traveller and what he saw In 1533,EnglandandWalesstill retained their medieval splendour, andinto this lost world rode the young John Leland - antiquary, scholar and keen observer of life and landscape. His travel notes, in all their sharp immediacy, capture this poignant moment before so much was swept away. To read Leland is to step into the past, and my lecture will point the way. |
Tim Porter |
 Wednesday 20th June |
The Developing Face of London and the Good and Bad of the Olympics |
Ian Gibson
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