Upcoming Society Events & Talks
More details about all these events and talks are in the Members’ area
April
London: (Joint Meeting with the Society of Jewellery Historians):
Kieran McCarthy, FSA (joint-managing director of Wartski and curator of the sell-out V&A exhibition Fabergé in London: Romance to Revolution) – Fabergé’s Silver
Cambridge: Treasures of Christ’s College, Cambridge
Organised by Jane Ewart. Booking details to follow in due course.
May
London: Lecture by Damian Collins (Guest curator of last year’s exhibition on gold boxes at Dublin Castle, ‘‘The Metal Stamp’d by honest Fame’’), on Irish gold boxes
Silversmithing workshop at West Dean College
June
Edinburgh & Glasgow Study Tour.
Visiting a wonderful array of places and silver, guided by our local expert members, Colin Fraser and Lyndsay McGill.
July
London: Lecture by Piers Percival (independent scholar, former ophthalmic surgeon and long-term Society member), on ‘Some Tudor Device Marks Revealed: an evening of light and colour.’
October
London: Lecture by Roland Arkell (deputy editor, features and supplements, Antiques Trade Gazette), reviews the ups and downs of the silver market in the last 30 years.
Arundel Castle, Sussex. Visit led by Gareth Harris
November
London AGM lecture. Vanessa Brett (former editor of Silver Studies, and most recently author of the delightfully titled Knick-knackery: The Deards family & their luxury shops, 1685-1785 [2023]) will be talking about the research behind her forthcoming book on the late Timothy Arthur Kent and his collection, People, Places, Occupations.
