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Hugh Belsey on Gainsborough

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Gainsborough painted portraits at all periods of his career and they provided the majority of his income. Some were initiated by the artist and in the 1780s, when he was expending much of his energy on so-called ‘Fancy’ pictures, the lengthy process of painting a couple of important portraits raises further questions about their classification, their intention and their purpose. This lecture examines this dichotomy and shows how very inventive Gainsborough’s work was during the last decade of his life.

Toxic Dwellings Owain Jones

Toxic Dwellings? The Ecocides of Globalised Consumer Society

The Holburne Museum Holburne Museum, Bath, United Kingdom

Bath Spa University  Public Lecture Series FREE (book your place at bathspalive.com) Join Professor Owain Jones as he explores how globalised capitalist consumer cultures create ‘toxic dwellings’ – ways of being-in-the-world which are (apparently) experientially rich and fulfilling, but which are also toxic to the wellbeing of individuals, communities and the environment in production, consumption...

Free

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...

£15

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...

TIM LIARDET at the Holburne Museum Bath

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

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...

Free

Wordsworth portrait 1857. Talk:Wordsworth at 250 Holburne Museum

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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