STAINED GLASS OF YORK MINSTER The lecture details the 25th Anniversary of the fire at York Minster and the rebuilding of the Rose Window. Peter Gibson OBE M Univ. York FSA FRSA FSGT

TREASURES OF THE ROYAL COLLECTION The greatest royal collectors. 485,000 objects collected by the Royal Family from Henry VIII to the present Queen. Oliver Everett: Librarian Emeritus of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle

HOW THE WEST WAS BORN The mystery and splendour of Golden Ages in Arts. Why should creativity flare so brilliantly in particular times? and rarely to recur in the same place again. Patricia Wright BA (Hons) ARICS

STILL WATERS RUN DEEP The restoration of the Bath Waters and Spa Jane Tapely: Special Events Organiser, Theatre Royal, Bath

THE EXOTIC IN ENGLISH ARCHITECTURE Dr Partick Conner MA DPhil

From Humble Beginnings 150 years of the National Portrait Gallery Angela Cox BA

ANCIENT CHINA'S TERRACOTTA ARMY This lecture explores the on-going excavation of over 7000 life-size pottery warriors buried within the mausoleum complex, outside Xian, of the First Emperor of China, who died in 210 BC- undoubtedly one of the greatest archaeological discoveries from the ancient world in the 20th century. This authoritative account by the first western archaeologist to see the site and who has been concerned with it on a professional level from the beginning. Dr Anne Birchall BA PhD FSA

GREAT TARTS IN ART: High Culture and the Oldest Profession A mixture of art-historical analysis and scandalous anecdote, this lecture takes a generally light-hearted look at the changing attitudes to sexual morality down the ages by examining the portraits, and the careers, of some of history's most notorious mistresses and courtesans. It also charts the rather complex and ambiguous attitudes of art and society towards the numerous anonymous working girls at the lower end of the scale, by investigating how they represented different times and places from the 17th to the 20th century. Linda Smith BA (Hons) MA

AN HOUR WITH THE HARP AND DAVID WATKINS For many years Prof. David Watkins FGSM Hon ARAM was Professor of Harp at the Guildhall School of music, Manchester. Our Lecture today will be an hour with the Harp.