An absorbing study day looking at the art, architecture and magnificent royal courts and palaces of the Mughal emperors of India
Venue: Grange Hall
Time: 10.30am to 3pm, with registration from 10am (full timetable below)
Our morning lectures take us on a tour of the splendid art and architecture of north-west India, through the four imperial cities of the Mughals (Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri and Lahore) and the reigns of the first six Mughals, whose rule had a lasting impact on India and whose creative building culminated in that most ethereal of all monuments, one of the wonders of the world, the Taj Mahal.
In the final lecture we visit the impressive fort-palaces of their vassals, the Hindu Rajput maharajas, and catch a glimpse of life and ceremony at the glittering Rajput courts.
- Registration and coffee – 10am
- First lecture – 10.30-11.30
- Coffee
- Second lecture 12 noon-1pm
- Buffet lunch
- Third lecture 2pm-3pm
Bookings will be taken at the December 2026 lecture.
£45 pp to include tea/coffee and buffet lunch.
Sue Rollin works as a tour guide and lecturer on India, Central Asia, the Mediterranean and Middle East, and as a freelance interpreter for international organisations including the European Union and United Nations. She was formerly a staff interpreter at the European Commission in Brussels and tutor and lecturer in Assyriology and Ancient History at the Universities of London and Cambridge. Sue has also worked as an archaeologist, and has published a Blue Guide: Jordan and Istanbul: A Traveller's Guide.