Virtual Soirée Recording store
Not a Conley & Silvers Member, but want access to our Recording Library? Good news, we are making our past tour recordings available for purchase to all of our C&S friends!
With over 50 lectures already in the library, new tours will be added at the conclusion of each Virtual Soirée series. Recordings are available as a set of multiple tours packaged at a discounted rate averaging $10 per tour. Peruse the selection below and select the subject of your choice for access to stream our virtual tours online until September 30, 2022.
For an example tour, see this complimentary recording of a past talk where celebrated author Ross King joined us to discuss Monet’s Water Lilies as wartime paintings. Better yet, check-out the kind words by our loyal C&S fans here.
London Virtual Soirée: Hidden Gems
London Virtual Soirée: Hidden Gems
Your purchase includes five tour recordings. Upon purchase, you will be emailed a link where you can download a PDF of your recording list! This PDF will have descriptions, links and passwords to the tour recordings, and will expire on December 31, 2021.
Join Sophie for a series of four virtual strolls through history, examining the dense social fabric of London (and a bit beyond), to discover just what makes the city tick. We'll explore attitudes to money, women and words; the part they have played in its development and their role in modern London - just as more change is on the way.
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Kerching! Welcome to Bonus Country, aka our very own City of London: 2000 years with its toes in the Thames has given the City of London (our Wall Street) a certain insouciance about world events, but the next few months are a tough call. Find out why Roman realtors chose this spot, who gets to drive sheep over London Bridge, why Bow Bells make you cockney and exactly WHAT is going with the horizon?
Numbers may be tiny but we sure kick ass: Women at the National Portrait Gallery: Ignore us at your peril, as our much-loved NPG found out when a suffragette took a meat cleaver to a portrait of Thomas Carlyle in 1914. They listened... and gradually more female faces have appeared on its walls. Come meet, among others, a millionaire diva, the controversial Pankhursts, a cross-dressing spy and a charming physicist.
Signed, sealed, delivered...A stroll around Runnymede, Magna Carta's maternity ward: Actually, it wasn't signed (they didn't in those days) or really delivered, due to wicked King John breaking the rules, but IT WAS SEALED in this very meadow. Runnymede is fascinating and too often passed by when leaving Windsor Castle - so let me persuade you, using JFK, a mysterious reflection and an ancient yew, that you must, must visit.
Hold the front page! A jaunt to the home of journalism, fabulous Fleet Street: Thump! A sound that put the fear of god into journalists frantically polishing copy as the presses crashed into action at 4pm each weekday. To most Brits over a certain age Fleet Street means journalism - and although presses, newspapers and hacks have long since moved out, buildings, pubs and atmosphere remain. BYO crate of claret.
Roll up, roll up! The Invisible Man or William Shakespeare comes to London: We know about Shakespeare as a boy. We know about him as a man. What he was doing in between is another thing entirely. Explore his London with the help of a priceless archive, a hidden theatre, a church, two palaces and Shakespeare's Globe. Curtain up 7pm. No throwing of rotten tomatoes or loud chewing of hazelnuts.