Diary Dates
BACSA Newsletter readers, family and friends may be interested in the following events:
| Date / Time | Event | Place |
On now (until Sunday 1 Nov 2026)  | ‘Journeys through cloth’ Exhibition of textiles from Karun Thakar’s collection ‘centring on Punjabi baghs and phulkari, traditionally embroidered by young girls and women’ at Osterley Park, a National Trust property. | Osterley Park, Jersey Road, London TW7 4RD Click here for further details. |
On now (until Sunday 8 Nov 2026)  | ‘The last Princesses of Punjab’ Exhibition about the ‘Punjabi princess and suffragette icon’ Sophia Duleep Singh, and ‘the women who shaped her’ | Kensington Palace, Kensington Gardens, London W8 4PX. Click here for further details, including registration. |
On now (until Sunday 13 Dec 2026)  | ‘Colonial Views of India’ The ‘first exhibition focusing on photographs and negatives in the Ashmolean’, featuring ‘previously unseen photographs of India by Colonel Eugene Clutterbuck Impey (1830-1904)’ | Ashmolean Museum (Gallery 29), Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH. Click here for further details. |
On now   | ‘The Visakhapatnam Cabinet’ Made from padauk wood in the port city of Visakhapatnam c.1760, this ivory-inlaid cabinet (‘the largest and most ornate piece of furniture of its kind in the National Trust’s collection’) returns to display at Kingston Lacy, a National Trust property, after conservation work at the Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio at Knole, Kent. | Kingston Lacy, Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Click here for further details (and directions, eg ‘satnav unreliable; follow B3082 and brown signs’). |
On now (until Sunday 21 Feb 2027)   | ‘Drawn on the Western Front: Paul Sarrut and the Indian Army’ Paul Sarrut, French artist, liaison officer and interpreter with British, French and Indian units ‘lived among the men he drew, capturing daily life at close quarters and offering a rare and personal perspective on the conflict’ | National Army Museum, Royal Hospital Road, Chelsea, London SW3 4HT. Click here for further details. |
From Tuesday 8 Sep 2026 – Sunday 7 Mar 2027  | ‘A Mughal Songbook: Art, Music and Empire’ An exhibition of ‘treasures from the vibrant world of song, poetry and performance of Mughal South Asia from around 1750 to 1850’ . | Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RB. Click here for further details. |
From Saturday 19 Sep 2026 – Sunday 31 Jan 2027  | ‘Sunil Gupta: Life with a Camera, 1970 – Now’ Sunil Gupta was born in New Delhi in 1953. This major survey exhibition will reveal his ‘pioneering contribution to photography over five decades… in Delhi, Montreal, New York and London’. | Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge, Castle Street, Cambridge CB3 0AQ. Click here for further details. |
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