FRIENDS’ EVENTS

Study Days

900 years of Melbourne Church in History led by Philip Heath
A symposium connecting architecture with paintings, furniture and jewellery.

Debates

Muslim-Christian Dialogue: Prof. David Thomas, Dr. Atulllah Siddiqui and Prof. Jonathan Powers,
Religion in the public arena
Euthanasia
British and Muslim: A Balloon Debate with supper
Three Parliamentary Candidates (2010)
British and Muslim: Communal Living or Parallel Lives?

Talks

The Marquess of Lothian. Michael Ancram PC. QC. DL; Roy Hattersley MP; Kate Adie; Maxwell Craven; Dame Margaret Beckett; Mark Todd MP; Matthew Paris; The Lord Lieutenant of Derbyshire, William Tucker; the Head Master of Chellaston School; The Bishop of Derby on Lambeth 2008; Transition Melbourne, plus many others.

Lectures

Norman Architecture by Professor Mayr-Harting
Church Furniture Design by Nicholas Hobbs
A look at attitudes to conservation – ‘To scrape or not to scrape’ by Prof. Janet Spencer
Melbourne and the First World War ‘Beyond the Memorials’ by Adrian Earp
The Road to Colditz – personal recollections
Faith in a secular society by The Rev David Thomas
Alchemy and Spirituality by The Rev.Mark Powell
The Passion through the artist’s eye by Helen Barker
J.J. Briggs the 19th century historian from King’s Newton by Philip Heath
The Lost Sculpture of Ronald Pope by Robert Barstow
The Survival of Church Architecture by Prof. Janet Spencer
The Accidental Anarchist by Carne Ross
Horrockses ladies’ fashions in the 1940s and 1950s by Prof. Christine Boydell

Lectures

Norman Architecture by Professor Mayr-Harting
Church Furniture Design by Nicholas Hobbs
A look at attitudes to conservation – ‘To scrape or not to scrape’ by Prof. Janet Spencer
Melbourne and the First World War ‘Beyond the Memorials’ by Adrian Earp
The Road to Colditz – personal recollections
Faith in a secular society by The Rev David Thomas
Alchemy and Spirituality by The Rev.Mark Powell
The Passion through the artist’s eye by Helen Barker
J.J. Briggs the 19th century historian from King’s Newton by Philip Heath
The Lost Sculpture of Ronald Pope by Robert Barstow
The Survival of Church Architecture by Prof. Janet Spencer
The Accidental Anarchist by Carne Ross
Horrockses ladies’ fashions in the 1940s and 1950s by Prof. Christine Boydell

Lectures

Norman Architecture by Professor Mayr-Harting
Church Furniture Design by Nicholas Hobbs
A look at attitudes to conservation – ‘To scrape or not to scrape’ by Prof. Janet Spencer
Melbourne and the First World War ‘Beyond the Memorials’ by Adrian Earp
The Road to Colditz – personal recollections
Faith in a secular society by The Rev David Thomas
Alchemy and Spirituality by The Rev.Mark Powell
The Passion through the artist’s eye by Helen Barker
J.J. Briggs the 19th century historian from King’s Newton by Philip Heath
The Lost Sculpture of Ronald Pope by Robert Barstow
The Survival of Church Architecture by Prof. Janet Spencer
The Accidental Anarchist by Carne Ross
Horrockses ladies’ fashions in the 1940s and 1950s by Prof. Christine Boydell