During lockdown every museum closed its doors but some tried to stay open virtually through online tours. The Highlights tour of the British Museum has been going since 2013 and covers 15 objects in 90 minutes highlighting objects from all parts of the Museum’s collection from the Ancient World to the Modern and from all… Read more »
Discover the mysterious people who lived in Central Italy and ended up being enveloped by the Romans. The Etruscans are one of the more mysterious civilisations of Ancient Europe. The Greeks and Romans are well known but the influence of the Etruscans on them is less well known. The course will look at the history… Read more »
In the mid-C7th Mercia rose to challenge Northumbria for supremacy but after a brief set back became the dominant kingdom in England for about a century from the early C8th to the early C9th under three remarkable kings, Ethelbald, Offa and Coenwulf. Offa is still well known today and nearly succeeded in making England a… Read more »