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.