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May 08 2024
UNTO THIS LAST Readings from Ruskin Read more
Apr 02 2022
VOICES FROM VENICE - Conference & readings Read more
Jul 06 2021
Clive Wilmer's Feb 2020 Ruskin Birthday lecture for Notre Dame University, Indiana, USA Read more
Jun 09 2021
An overview of Rachel Dickinson's talk for the Art Worker's Guild, June 2021 Read more
Nov 03 2018
2018 Ruskin Lecture The 2018 Ruskin Lecture - RUSKIN, THE PRE-RAPHAELITES AND THE OXFORD MUSEUM - was given in Oxford by Prof John Holmes. Read more
May 11 2018
Whitelands Ruskin Lecture 2018 In 2017, Guild Companion Beate Howitt celebrated the 60th anniversary of her election and crowning as the Whitelands May Queen, in a tradition instigated at John Ruskin's suggestion in 1881. In this year's Ruskin lecture, Beate shared her story of her crowning as May Queen in 1957, her perspective having come to this country as a refugee from Nazi Germany and her lifetime of interest in Ruskin's ideas since. Read more
May 13 2016
Whitelands Ruskin Lecture 2016 The Victorian polymath John Ruskin wanted to improve the world. One of the ways he shared his vision for a better society was through the ideas of cloth and clothing. This lecture starts with his question ‘What do you mean by dressing?’ Read more