Study Days

Our Study Days offer the opportunity to look at something old in a new way - to see behind the scenes in museums and galleries; to handle objects from antiquity; to see how finds are excavated, conserved and displayed.

Our expert guides are able to open new interests for you, and frequently offer privileged access to their world whilst they do so. Dr Andrew Fear will be giving a “beginners’ guide” to Latin Epigraphy at Caerleon, opening a whole new understanding of those tombstones and inscriptions in  museums. Dr Paul Bahn is eager to introduce people to the early rock art in the caves at Creswell Crags in Derbyshire which he himself discovered, and Tony Wilmott will be telling (and showing) you the wonderful story of Maritime Portsmouth. We are even invited to the laboratories of Oxford University to understand how Carbon 14 dating works and to see how the process is applied.

Some of these Study Days are restricted to very low numbers, (which might make them more expensive). Others, such as the walks, are open to larger numbers. Every Study Day will include some kind of lunch - whether it is packed, picnic, pub or restaurant. You certainly won’t go hungry.

We will always start somewhere accessible by public transport - such as a railway station, or somewhere where you will be able to leave your car for the day. We will, of course, bring you back to that place, on foot or in a vehicle, at the end of the day.

Once you book we will send you a full Factsheet with further information about the Day.  

We have had immense fun putting them together and of course, we want to go on all of them too.