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The content of this Newsletter from your Chairman is as follows:

It seems an age since I last wrote a newsletter, two months is a long time when not a lot is happening!

However, since then, we have had three very successful Zoom Lectures.  First Catch a Squirrel with Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe.   Who knew that the listed artist rarely actually finished the work attributed to them?   In the case of one well known Renaissance painter the same apprentice did the same hand in three different paintings!  Ice Age Art with Mark Patton. That so many cave paintings were nearby, in France.    Sculptors and Science Fiction with David Worthington.   That the robots and space crafts in science fiction films such as War of the Worlds and Star Wars were in fact based on previous modern sculptures.

Bearing all this in mind I would encourage all those of you, who have not ventured into the realm of Zoom, to give it a try.

We have now booked the lectures on Zoom until Christmas and are investigating whether in the future we can have both live and Zoom lectures.  We keep in regular touch with the Victoria Halls.    As soon as they deem it possible, we will go back there.

I continue to check the Heygo tours.  My most recent was a tour of Avila.

London is hosting Around the World in 80 Days.  This is very entertaining and free with your subscription.   If you don’t get the email from Florian check the web site for the dates.

On iPlayer. BBC Two. Britain’s Biggest Dig.  In preparation for HS2, two massive digs uncover fascinating burials, revealing life in imperial London, in St James, and industrial Birmingham. 

The plans for the great unveiling of the AS plaque in the square continues.  You will be notified well in advance of the date.   The Zoom AGM will take place in September.  Again, you will be notified in advance.

Your committee continue to keep things going until we can all meet again in person.   

Best wishes to all, 

Patty