William Sterling

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Women in the Middle Ages

A tour of the Mediaeval Galleries of the British Museum (Rooms 41 and 40 with brief visits to the Money Gallery and Enlightenment Galleries) to examine some of the surviving evidence for the role and importance of women in Europe in the Middle Ages.

This tag: Women’s history

Music and Art Inspired by Shakespeare 1

This is the first of six postings for lectures from the Cruise on the SAGA Pearl II to the Gulf of Bothnia. MUSIC AND ART INSPIRED BY SHAKESPEARE This series of Six Talks was devised to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death in 2016. They were commissioned for a cruise to the Gulf of… Read more »

This tag: Women’s history

An introduction to the Etruscan and Roman galleries at the British Museum

This course ran at the City Lit and the British Museum on Monday 27th July 2015. We had some background to Etruscan and Roman myths and history in the morning and a two hour tour of the museum in the afternoon. The handouts included Archaic Etruscan alphabet gods The Twelve Cities Roman timeline 2015

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