Lecture Programme 2000-4
2000
24 January
AGM, followed by John Cherry
Virtuous Words, stones and rings: Healing with Jewels
6 March Helen W Drutt English
Beyond Ornament: 20th Century Jewellery
10 April Shena Mason
'Great Temple of les Beaux Arts': 18th century Birmingham and the Soho Manufactory
22 May Mary Brid Deevy
Medieval Ring Brooches in Ireland: a study of jewellery
19 June Henrietta Lidchi
Surviving Desire: native jewellery of the American Southwest
2 October Malcolm Appleby
My Work and its Influences
6 November Henry Fernandez
Papal Tiaras in early 16th century Rome
4 December Hugh Tait
The jeweller's art of émail en resille sur verre from antiquity to the 19th century
2001
23 January
AGM, followed by David Lancaster
Twentieth Century Jewellery at Auction
27 February Rosemary Ransome Wallis
The Contemporary Art Jewellery Collection of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths
24 April Mairead Dunlevy
Later Jewellery at the National Museum of Ireland (17th to 20th Centuries)
22 May Vivienne Farmer
Work of Thorns. A Study of an Indian Jewellery Technique
26 June Christine Rew
James Cromar Watt
25 September David Watkins
Themes and Developments
23 October Charles Truman
Microcosms of 18th Century Art. The Gold Boxes in the Gilbert Collection
27 November Edmond Chin
Jade
2002
22 January
AGM, followed by Dyfri Williams
Greek Jewellers at the ends of the Earth
26 February Catherine Martin
Threads of Silk: Threads of Gold. A journey in Kumihimo
30 April Jack Ogden
Hot Flames, Cold steel: the manufacture of Georgian and Victorian jewellery
14 May Marie-Noël de Gary
Frédéric Boucheron 1858-1902
2 July Shena Mason
Redeeming Birmingham : the work of T & J Bragg
24 September Ann Louise Luthi
A History of Hair jewellery
22 October Judy Rudoe
Jewellery at the Great Exhibition
26 November Charlotte Gere
Victorian Romantics: dressing up in the 19th century
2003
28 January
AGM, followed by Alan Jobbins
Organics in Ornamentation
25 February Sheila Payne
Amulets from West Africa and Central Asia
29 April Fritz Falk
The Schmuckmuseum Pforzheim: its History, Development and Objectives
27 May Fritz Maierhofer
My Life and Work
24 JuneHugh Tait
Renaissance Jewellery: the use of 'Painted Enamels', and related problems
23 September Annamarie Sandecki
An Introduction to the Tiffany & Co. Archives and its Collections
28 October John Cherry
The Waning of Medieval Jewellery
25 November Beatriz Chadour
Rosaries, Prayer-beads and jewels of Devotion
2004
12 January Penny Morrill
An Aesthetic Collaboration in Silver - William Spratling's Jewellery
9 March
AGM, followed by Catherine Johns
Roman Jewellery
6 April David Humphrey
The Three Brothers Jewel
25 May Marjan Boot
Contemporary Jewellery in the Stedelijk Museum
29 June Sarah Nicholls
Aluminium and Jewellery
28 September Stefano Papi
Italian Court Jewellers and the House of Savoy
12 October Venetia Porter and Susan La Niece
Islamic Jewellery from a 17th century Ship in Salcombe Bay
30 November Ioanna Lalaounis
The Ilias Lalaounis Jewellery Museum, Athens
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