St Michael's Mount, engraving 1813 after J. Farington RA.
Henley-on-Thames, watercolour by Ernest W. Haslehurst, publ. c. 1930.
Clifton Suspension Bridge, near Bristol, wood engraving c. 1880.
England Tours
Our England programme moves through diverse and fascinating periods: Roman villas, Anglo-Saxon monasteries, Norman keeps, Plantagenet cathedrals, the country houses and gardens that came after. Every tour is led by someone who has spent a career on exactly that subject, with access arranged to match: a room usually closed, a private recital, a curator who brings a collection to life.
Exploring England on a cultural tour
Dr Marc Morris, biographer of William the Conqueror, takes you through the castles that made Kent and Sussex a battleground for three centuries on Norman Conquest and Plantagenet Power. We are led through the country houses of the north by a curator who once catalogued the Royal Collection's silver. Roman Britain's south coast comes courtesy of a professor who can date a mosaic at a glance and name the legion that laid it.
England, dug up, opened up and explained by people who've spent their careers on exactly this.
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The excellence in the smallest detail, from hotel selection to minute by minute organisation of each day and evening, the highest possible quality of the lectures, despite initial terror of finding one knew nothing, but realising one was there to learn after all, as were most attendees. "
Birth of the Modern - Britain in the Age of Jane Austen & JMW Turner
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Excellent lecturers with a well thought out programme to suit all levels of knowledge and interest. Martin Randall team extremely pleasant and helpful. The hotel was very comfortable and again very helpful staff to deal with any queries. "
Birth of the Modern - Britain in the Age of Jane Austen & JMW Turner
