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Jun 04 2026
The Mineral World of John Ruskin Read more
Mar 29 2025
The Elements of Drawing - videos of the monthly sessions 2025 Read more
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
Jul 01 2021
Companion perspectives on the refugee crisis 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