At-a-glance diary of all events in the ExeDFAS year
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July
2010

Wed 14

 Committee
meeting		    
September
2010

Tue 28

 Coffee morning For new members, at the Quay Brasserie, Topsham: 10.30-12noon  
October
2010 

Tue 5

Thu 14

 Visit

Lecture

Powderham Castle & Deer Park Safari Ride

The destruction of the monasteries:
the greatest act of artistic vandalism in English history:               Mark Corby

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November 2010 

Wed 10


Thu 11


Mon 22

 Committee
meeting

Lecture


Coffee morning




New light on Rembrandt 1606-2006:
                                       Clare Ford-Wille

At the Quay Brasserie, Topsham

 


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December
2010

Mon 6


Thu 9

 Special
interest day

Lecture		 A history of English porcelain:   
                                    Anton Gabszewicz

Picturing the Nativity: 15th century artists re-interpret the scriptures:   
                                         Shirley Smith


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January
2011

Mon 17


Thu 13

 New year lunch

Lecture		 12.30 for 1.00pm at the Victoria Hotel, Sidmouth

The great twelve: an introduction to the senior livery companies of the City of London, their medieval origins and their role in modern society:
                                     Fenella Billington 




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February 
2011

Thu 10

 Lecture

William Burges - architect, and the third Marquess of Bute:         Tom Errington

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March 
2011

Thu 10

 Lecture

Laos: from historic Buddhist temples to modern silkweaving:     Denise Heywood

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April 
2011

Mon 11



Thu 14

 Special
interest day


Lecture

Bess and her descendants - the Cavendishes at Hardwick, Bolsover and Chatsworth:                    Roger Mitchell

Linley, the continuing tradition:  
                                     Nicholas Merchant 

 

May
2011

Fri 6


Thu 12



Mon 16

 Visit


Lecture



Special interest day

Bath and the American Museum of Decorative Arts at Claverton Manor

Banks, Burgundy and piracy: the 15th century artists of Bruges: 
                                  Christopher Herbert

Nomads, pilgrims and traders: An introduction to the history and
archeology of Jordan:    Dr Neil Faulkner

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June
2011

Mon 6

Thu 9



Fri 17
to
Mon 20

 Visit

AGM, lecture and buffet lunch

Extended visit

Castle Hill House & Gardens, South Molton

Mozart's 'Cosi': a comic opera: 
                                       Jonathan Hinden


Buxton, Chatsworth House, Hardwick Hall and Haddon Hall, Derbyshire

  






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September
2011

 Sun 18
 to
Sun 25

 Foreign tour The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan