Speaking.
Kassia St. Clair is an experienced public speaker and moderator. Public appearances include lectures at the Dallas Museum of Art, Tate Liverpool, the V&A and the National Portrait Gallery, as well as events at Hay and Chalke Valley History Festivals, Soho House and Christie’s.
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Upcoming events.
The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-golden-thread-how-fabric-changed-history-with-kassia-st-clair-tickets-848349906407
The Race to the Future
The Race to the Future captures the birth of a new world through a global event — the Peking-Paris race in 1907. It covers many facets of transformation in the lead up to the First World War that help us understand our world today: the transition from horse economies to automobiles, Chinese history, the Russian revolution, American mass manufacturing, women and motoring, the evolution of the car and more!
The Race to the Future, Edge of the World Books
A talk about Kassia St Clair’s new book, The Race to the Future, at the Edge of the World Bookshop in Penzance
The Race to the Future, Topping & Co., Bath
A talk about Kassia St Clair’s new book, The Race to the Future, at Topping & Company in Bath.
Five Colourful Histories
Come to Leighton House Museum for an exploration of the histories of five pigments, dyes and hues. Learn about the green that could have killed Charles Dickens before he wrote 'A Tale of Two Cities'; the molluscs that gave us royal purple; and the costly blue that entranced artists of the Renaissance.
WECS - Study Day
Kassia St Clair, cultural historian, gives a talk on the history of textiles at the West of England Costume Society
Art Talk: The Secret Lives of Colour
We are delighted that Kassia St Clair, author of top-ten bestseller The Secret Lives of Colour, is coming to Pegasus Art to give an illustrated talk. You may have heard snippets on Radio 4 when it was Book of the Week, you may have seen its colourful book cover in Waterstones – and now is your chance to delight in the hidden history of seventy five pigments, revealing fascinating historical and cultural facts that will bowl you over.