The history tours focus on a fascinating range of historical events and political themes. These include the Napoleonic, Crimean and Cold Wars, and battlefield tours of the Somme, Waterloo and Agincourt.
This year's
Writers at the Castle weekend (5–7 November 2010), held at the wonderful Castle Hotel in Taunton, features a remarkable array of distinguished historians discussing recent research and the nature of the study of history. The speakers are Professor Mary Beard, Professor Tim Blanning, Professor Richard Holmes, Dr Tristram Hunt, Professor Helen King and Dr Ian Mortimer.
Of course, you will find innumerable aspects of history covered in most of our tours. Outside of our category dedicated solely to history holidays and battlefield tours, we deal with the classical civilizations of Greece and Rome in our
archaeological tours, and the Mongol rulers of thirteenth and fourteenth century Iran in our
Architecture category. In other categories, we explore Hadrian’s Wall in our
Walking tours, and Mediaeval Burgundy and the Courts of Renaissance Italy in our
art history tours.
The Baltic States
- History holiday covering three countries with different languages, diverse histories and distinct cultural identities.
- An extensive legacy from German, Polish, Russian and Swedish occupations.
- The focus of the tour is history, politics and general culture, rather than art and architecture.
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16–28 August 2010
13 days •
£2,980
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The Battle of Waterloo
- A study of the most written-about battle in history, and of one of the best-preserved battlefields.
- This battlefield tour is prefaced by visits to Crécy and Agincourt.
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28 June–2 July 2010
5 days •
£1,650
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Wellington in the Peninsula
- Survey of Wellington’s Iberian campaign, through Portugal, Spain and into the French Pyrenees.
- Key battles studied in depth, also the life of the soldier and background matters.
- The lecturer is the leading expert on battles of the Peninsular War.
- A long but well-paced history tour with a lot of driving. Some quite demanding walking on sites. Conventional sight-seeing is left to independent time.
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7–19 June 2010
13 days •
£2,990
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