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Photo: Commemorative bell, GWR King Class 4-6-0 6000 'King George V' Swindon Railway Museum It is pleasing to report that our mid-winter half day visit to Swindon proved remarkably popular....

The Gothic Revival usually evokes pictures of 19th century architecture, but the movement actually originated and flourished in the 18th century. For Dr Amy Frost a key building was Woodstock...

What does “Talboys” Keevil conjure up? We had no idea what to expect, but the description in the Autumn magazine did not disappoint. Dating from the 15th Century, it is...

‘You look out at the world with one eye and into yourself with the other’... a quote attributed to Amedeo Modigliani. Choosing to visit the ‘Modigliani’ blockbuster exhibition at Tate...

"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." Michael Darlow began his talk to a large and attentive audience with these words of Dostoevsky, and immediately we were...

Compton Verney was the home of the Verney family, headed by the Barons Willoughby de Broke, but is now owned by an educational charity. It houses many art collections, including...

Worcester is a Roman town dominated by the truculent and longest river in England, the Severn, so, with its ancient history, our first priority was to set about learning more...

On what proved to be the hottest day of the year, we were grateful for Chandler’s air conditioned coach on our hour long trip to our first venue, the old...

Our journey began on a bright summer morning, crossing Salisbury plain and giving us a brief glimpse of Stonehenge on route, then on through Hampshire and leafy Surrey into picturesque...

Aim for the day: to visit the exhibition about the rise of Modernism in France, entitled ‘From Degas to Picasso’.