2013 Lee Beard (Project Director of the Ben Nicholson catalogue raisonné), ‘The long history of a painting. Cataloguing the work of Ben Nicholson’ (25 November)

2013 Paul Gough (UWE Bristol), 'Running out of memory': Inscribing the city in the cause of commemoration', the BIRTHA annual lecture (11 November)

2013 Emma Chambers (Tate Britain, London), ‘Migrations: Kurt Schwitters, Oskar Kokoschka and British Art’ (4 March)

2012 Jim Harris (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford), ‘“What are we that you should care for us?” – Painting and repainting monuments of the English Reformation’ (29 October)

2012 Karin Orchard (Sprengel Museum, Hanover), ‘Schwitters in Exile in Britain’ (12 November)

2012 Colin Cruise (Aberystwyth University), ‘New Narrative Spaces: Ford Madox Brown and Pictorial Composition’ (12 March)

 2011 Alexandra Harris (University of Liverpool) Author of 'Romantic Moderns: English Writers, Artists, and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper', at the Bristol Arnolfini as part of the Bristol Festival of Ideas (18 May)

2011 Michael Hatt (University of Warwick) and Jason Edwards (University of York), 'Displaying Victorian Sculpture' (the Perry Lecture, 9 May)

2011 Phillip Lindley (University of Leicester), 'Charles Alfred Stothard (1786-1821): Hero of Historicism' (7 March)

2010  Luca Caddia, 'Sub Rosa Aeternitatis: Alma-Tadema and the Collection of Identity' (17 May)

2010 Richard Read (University of Western Australia), 'Reversed Paintings and the Conflict between Commercial and Academic Values in Fin-de-Siècle London and Paris' (11 January)

2009 Sam Smiles (University of Plymouth), 'Turner’s Last Years and the Problem of "late style"' (7 December)

2009 David Jeremiah,  'Art and Industry - Britain in the 1880s' (2 November)

2009 Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute of Art), 'Plugged Burrows: Darwin, Earthworms and Aestheticism' (26 October)

2009 Richard Clay (University of Birmingham), 'Matthew Boulton and the Art of Making Money' (16 March)

2008 Sarah Victoria Turner (University of York), ‘Contact zones: Walter Crane, the India Society and the Festival of Empire in 1911’ (24 November)