Lecture Programme 1985-9
1985
14 January Gertrud Seidmann
Nathaniel Marchant, Gem-engraver (1739-1816)
18 February Brigitte Marquardt
German Jewellery: Classicism and Biedermeier, 1780-1850
25 March Elisabeth Goring
Aspects of Bronze Age Cypriot Goldwork
13 May Kenneth Snowman
Aspects of some less well-known Snuff-boxes of the 18th century
30 September Marian Wenzel
Bosnian Jewellery and its Links with Islam and the Late Medieval World
4 November Jack Ogden
Looking at Ancient Jewellery
16 December
AGM, followed by Martha McCrory
Domenico Compagni: Roman Gem Engraver and Medallist of the Cinquecento
1986
13 January Andrew Oddy
Gold Jewellery of the African Iron Age
17 February Suzy Menkes
The Royal Jewels
14 April Alan Jobbins
Sources and Characteristics of Gemstones prior to 1914
19 May Sonia Hawkes
Early Anglo-Saxon Jewellery
29 September Rosemary Watt
Scottish Jewellery in Glasgow 1840-1940
27 October Jennifer Scarce
Persian Women's Jewellery of the 18th and 19th centuries
1 December
AGM, followed by Hugh Tait
Benvenuto Cellini and Renaissance Jewellery
1987
2 February Martin Henig
Roman Ring Forms
2 March Carol Andrews
Egyptian Jewellery in the British Museum: Pre-Dynastic to Graeco-Roman
6 April Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador
Gems, Jewellery and Victorian Fiction
28 May Evelyne Possémé
The Henri Vever Gift of 19th century French Jewellery to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
5 October Peter Hinks
European Peasant Jewellery
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14 December
AGM, followed by Gustaf Trolle Bonde
Russian Niello work of the 18th and 19th century, concentrating on the work of Veliky-Ustiug
1988
1 February Anne Stephens
Nepalese Jewellery
7 March Yvonne Hackenbroch
Emblematic Renaissance Jewellery
18 April Lindsay Allason-Jones
Romano-British Earrings
May Rachel Ward
Goldsmiths' Work from the Court of Suleyman the Magnificent
3 October Stuart Needham
Personal Adornment in the Bronze Age
7 November Diana Scarisbrick
Joan Evans as a Collector of Jewellery
5 December
AGM, followed by Ronald Lightbown
Some aspects of Medieval Jewellery
1989
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2 October Victor Harris
Japanese personal adornment from earliest times until the Imperial restoration in 1867
6 November Jane Stancliffe
Origins and Development of the Costume Jewellery Industry in Bohemia: From Cottage Industry to Factory Mass-Production
4 December
AGM, followed by Hugh Tait
17th Century Jewellery: New Techniques (including émail en résille sur verre) and Modern Fakes
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