Celebrating 5 years of streaming our much loved Online Winter Talk series. The talks are free but donations are greatly welcomed to support future talks and to safeguard our collection for the future. Please DONATE HERE, thank you!
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March 2026 – Award winning food historian Dr Neil Buttery and Museum Trustee and ceramic expert Paul Crane FSA uncover hidden histories behind sugar in the 18th Century, and how it inadvertently catalysed porcelain manufacture, with a close study of the evolution of Worcester sucriers in ‘Sugar, Slavery and Empire, and the evolution of Worcester Porcelain Sucriers’.
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January 2026 – Food historian Ivan Day tempted our taste buds with his online talk ‘Frozen Delights: A History of Porcelain and Ice Cream.’
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December 2025 – Patricia Ferguson, former Curator of the British Museum and the V&A, and Honorary Adviser on Ceramics for the National Trust, dazzled us with the ornate world of English Rococo with her talk ‘Exploring the Rococo through Chelsea’s Gold Anchor Vases.’
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Click on the links below to watch our Archived Online Talks:
- January 2025 – ‘A chip off the old pot’ in memory of the late Henry Sandon by John Sandon
- November 2024 – ‘Egg Coddlers’ by Cordula Peters
- March 2024 – ‘Nature, Porcelain and the Enlightenment – George Edwards’ “Uncommon Birds” on Worcester and Chelsea porcelain’ by Paul Crane
- February 2024 – ‘An artist’s exploration of the historic technique of tissue transfer-printing on ceramics’ by Dr Lisa Sheppy
- January 2024 – ‘Shopping with Dr Wall – a visit to Worcester’s London Showroom in 1755’ by John Sandon
- December 2023 – ‘Anecdotes from the Archives: Stories and Memories from Royal Worcester workers’ by Julia Letts
- November 2023 – Author, food historian and British Food History podcaster, Dr Neil Buttery spoke about ‘Navigating 19th century English meals’
- March 2023 – ‘Worcester modellers of the 20th century’ by Philip Serrell
- February 2023 – ‘Here’s a good health to Dr Wall – Worcester porcelain and hot drinks in Georgian England’ by John Sandon
- January 2023 – ‘Chinese Whispers – Chinoiserie on Worcester porcelain in the early Dr Wall period’ by Paul Crane
- December 2022 – ‘A very Walpole Christmas: Worcester porcelain and the festive season at an 18th century villa’ by Alyssa Myers
- March 2022 – ‘Early Worcester from Dr Wall to James Giles’ by Paul Crane
- February 2022 – ’20th Century Hand-painted Worcester Porcelain’ by Philip Serrell
- January 2022 – ‘Flight and Chamberlain: Celebrity & Rivalry in Regency Worcester’ by John Sandon
- February 2021 – ‘Commerce, Creativity and Collaboration: The Story of Royal Worcester and the Islamic World’ by Fuchsia Hart