Ruskin Lectures 1978 - 2014

Ruskin Lectures 1978 - 2014

Original series
1978 Asa, Lord Briggs: Ruskin and the Rise of Industry 
1979 Robert Hewison: Art & Society. Ruskin in Sheffield in 1876 
1981 Philip Rawson: Ruskin, Turner and Time 
1982 Van Akin Burd: Ruskin, Lady Mount Temple and the Spiritualists 
1982 Michael Kitson: Ruskin’s Stones of Venice 
1983 Joe Holyoak: J. H. Chamberlain. Ruskin’s architect of the Civic Gospel 
1985 Anthony Harris: Why do our little girls have large shoes? 
1986 Tim Hilton: Ruskin’s Masterpiece 
1987 Sir Roy Shaw: The Relevance of Ruskin 
1988 Nicholas Shrimpton: Ruskin and ‘War’ [published 2014] 
1991 Anthony Harris: Ruskin and Siena 
1992 Malcolm Cole: 'Be like Daisies': John Ruskin and the Cultivation of Beauty at Whitelands College 
1994 Royal W. Leith III: Ruskin and his American Followers in Tuscany

New Series 
2005 Stephen Wildman: Thomas Matthews Rooke [published 2013] 
2006 Sam Smiles: Ruskin and Cambridge 
2007 Jacqueline Yallop: Our Power to Bequeath 
2008 Paul Tucker: Charles Fairfax Murray and Duccio’s Maesta 
2009 Robert Hewison: Of Ruskin’s Gardens 
2010 Stuart Eagles: Ruskin and Tolstoy 
2011 Zoe Bennett: The True Use of Faith 
2012 Howard Hull: 'Demeter’s Dowry': Ruskin and Landscape 
2013 Mark Frost: Curator and Curatress: The Swans and St George’s Museum 
2014 Gray Brechin: ‘Necessitous Men Are Not Free Men’: Bridging Ruskin’s Thought and the New Deal