Join Historian Andrew Hann and Curator of Collections Sabrina Villani for a whistle stop tour around the world with the fabulously wealthy Courtaulds. Discover the places they visited on their holidays in the 1920s and '30s, the different modes of transport they used and the people the met along the way, all meticulously recorded within the pages of their illustrated travel logs.

Find out more about their luxury motor yacht, Virginia, launched in 1930, which they used to cruise around Europe and South East Asia, and learn more about what happened to the vessel after the Courtaulds sold it in 1948. The talk will be followed by a short tour round Eltham Palace focusing on objects and features of the interior related to the Courtaulds travels. There will also be an opportunity to see collections objects not normally accessible to the public including some of the illustrated log books and cutlery made specially for the yacht.

This event has been graded as moderate access as the tour will last one and a half hours and attendees will need to walk up a set of stairs to get to the palace. However, the majority of the talk will take place within the Great Hall.