Our Guide Lecturers

Many of the interesting, knowledgeable, articulate and witty people you see below are also leading experts in their field.  No other travel company has a more specialised or highly qualified team of guide lecturers.

The guide lecturer is your tour leader, your academic host, whose role it is to enlighten and inspire you. They are with you from breakfast to supper, and possibly even a drink afterwards in the bar. They will explain how the physical remains are an expression of culture, and will use all the sites you see during your holiday to help you form as comprehensive a picture as possible; not only of the area you are visiting, but its place in a wider picture.

Every tour provides another piece of the puzzle which is the amazing story of humankind.

Dr Denise Allen

Denise Allen PhD has a background in archaeology, and is a specialist in Roman glass with a wide interest in Classical civilisations.

·     Pamphylia & Lycia

    Tue 5 – Tue 12 May 2009

·     Bare Bones Pompeii

   Sat 24 – Sat 31 October 2009

Zosia Archibald

Zosia Archibald teaches Classical archaeology and Ancient History at the School of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, University of Liverpool. She has travelled extensively in Bulgaria and is British team leader at the international excavation project at Vetren-Pistiros.

·     Bulgaria

    Wed 9 – Fri 18 Sept 2009

Dr Paul Bahn

Paul Bahn MA PhD FSA read archaeology at Cambridge.  He is a specialist in prehistoric art, and author of many books, including 'Journey through the Ice Age'.

·     The Pyrenees – Cave art
Mon 1 – Sun 7 Sept 2008

·     Chile and Easter Island
Mon 17 Nov – Thur 4 Dec 2008

·     Dordogne – Cave paintings
Mon 25 May – Tue 2 June 2009

·     Altamira
Mon 7 – Mon 14 Sept 2009

·     Chile and Easter Island
Mon 16 Nov – Thur 3 Dec 2009

Dr Robin Barber

Robin Barber PhD was formerly Assistant Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens, and Head of the Dept of Classical Archaeology at Edinburgh University.  He is author of 'The Cyclades in the Bronze age' and 'Greece, Athens' and 'Rhodes and the Dodecanese' in the Blue Guide series.

·          Bare Bones Melos
Sun 10 – Sat 16 May 2009

·          Northern Greece
Mon 27 Sept – Mon 5 Oct 2009

Tertia Barnett

Tertia Barnett works on a rock art and archaeology project for English Heritage in addition to research projects in Libya and Britain. She previously lectured at Nottingham and Cardiff Universities and is an honorary research fellow at Durham University. She has worked on archaeological projects in Britain, Europe and Africa.

·      Prehistoric Morocco
Mon 26 Oct – Tue 3 Nov 2009

Dr Mike Bishop

Mike Bishop Ph.D. specialises in the study of the Roman army.  His career has included post-excavation work at various sites on Hadrian's Wall and directing excavations as a commercial field archaeologist.  He is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of St Andrews and editor of the 'Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies'.

·      Syria – From Hauran to Euphrates

    22 Oct - 01 Nov 2008

·      Hadrian’s Wall
Fri 3 – Sat 11 July 2009

·      Syria – From Hauran to Euphrates
Sun 11 – Wed 21 Oct 2009

Dr Maureen Carroll

Dr Maureen Carroll is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield. She specialises in Roman Germany and Gaul, especially funerary epigraphy, ethnicity and identity and the archaeology of Roman gardens. She is author of a number of books and articles including Romans, Celts and Germans: the German Provinces of Rome.

·     Roman Germany
Fri 1 – Tue 9 Sept 2008

·     Roman Germany (by Rail)
Mon 7 – Tue 15 Sept 2009

David Drew

David Drew, archaeologist, writer and broadcaster, read Modern History at Oxford and later completed an M.A. in Archaeology and Anthropology at the Institute of Latin American Studies in London. He is closely involved with the Cusichaca Trust in Peru, working with local communities to restore their ancient heritage. He has made many documentary films for the BBC and other broadcasters and has written books about the Maya and the Incas.

·     Bolivia and Peru – the heart of Andean Civilisation
Fri 26 Sept – Wed 15 Oct 2008

·     The Maya in Mexico
Mon 17 Nov – Tue 2 Dec 2008

·     Bare Bones Peru
Mon 11 – Thu  21 May 2009

·     Moche, Chimu, Inca - The Extraordinary Civilisations of Ancient Peru
Mon 28 Sept – Wed 14 Oct 2009

·     The Maya in Mexico
Mon 16 Nov – Tue 1 Dec 2009

Dr Andrew Fear

Andrew Fear D Phil is lecturer in Classics at the University of Manchester, and is author of ‘Rome and Baetica’ and ‘Lives of the Visigothic Fathers’.

·     Catalonia – Ebro Delta, rock art, Iberians & Romans
Sat 6 – Sat 13 Sept 2008

·     Spain & Portugal
Mon 30 March – Mon 6 April 2009

·     Northern Spain
Fri 4 – Sat 12 Sept 2009

Alan French

Alan French MA Mlitt read Classics at Bristol and Archaeology at Birmingham University.  He lectures in Roman archaeology at the University of Winchester.

·     Sicilia Antiqua
Thur 18 – Sun 28 Sept 2008

·     Roman Germany
Mon 6 – Tue 14 Oct 2008

·     Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Mon 23 – Mon 30 March 2009

·     Sicilia Antiqua
Mon 27 April – Thur 7 May 2009

·     Roman Germany (by Rail)
Fri 4 - Sat 12 Sept 2009

·     Basilicata
Mon 28 Sept – Mon 5 Oct 2009

·     Calabria
Mon 5 – Mon 12 Oct 2009

Lucia Gahlin

Lucia Gahlin teaches Egyptology for the Universities of Bristol and Exeter, and works at the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology. She has excavated at Tell el-Amarna in Middle Egypt and is author of "Egypt: gods, myths and religion".

·          Egypt – Land of the Pharaohs
Wed 5 Nov – Thur 20 Nov 2008

·          Egypt – Land of the Pharaohs
Sun 15 Feb – Mon 2 Mar 2009

Oliver Gilkes

Oliver Gilkes has worked as a field archaeologist in the UK, Italy, Albania and Libya.  He currently works for the University of East Anglia.

·     Albania, The Land of the Eagles 
Mon 29 Sept – Wed 8 Oct 2008

·     Bare Bones Pompeii 
Sun 18 – Sun 25 January 2009

·     Ravenna & Aquileia 
Fri 17 – Fri 24 April 2009

·     Albania, The Land of the Eagles 
Tue 19 – Thu 28 May 2009

·     Emperors, Saints & Sinners   
Fri 18 – Sat 26 Sept 2009

·     Albania, The Land of the Eagles 
Tue 29 Sep – Thur 8 Oct 2009

·     Bare Bones Rome
Mon 2 – Sat 7 Nov 2009

   Tue 22 – Sun 27 Dec 2009 (over Christmas)

Dr Ffiona Gilmore Eaves

Ffiona Gilmore Eaves PhD wrote her thesis on the early chuch at Porec and travelled extensively along the Adriatic littoral.  She has worked in life-long learning and adult education, especially for the WEA.

·     Ravenna & Aquileia
Fri 5 – Fri 12 Sept 2008

·     Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)  
Mon 6 – Mon 13 Oct 2008

·     Bare Bones Athens
Sun 15 – Sat 21 February 2009

·     Ravenna & Aquileia 
Tue 5 – Tue 12 May 2009

·     Republic of Macedonia (FYROM)  
Mon 21 – Mon 28 Sept 2009

Dr Caroline Goodson

Dr Caroline Goodson is a lecturer in medieval history and archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. She is also a field archaeologist and has excavated Roman and Medieval sites in the Mediterranean in Lazio, Liguria, Puglia, Molise (all in Italy) and Morocco.

·     Casablanca to Marrakesh
Sat 18 – Sun 26 Oct 2008

·     Casablanca to Marrakesh
Sat 17 – Sun 25 Oct 2009

Robert Harding

Dr. Robert Harding is a Senior Research Associate at the University of Cambridge.  He has taught Indian archaeology at both UCL and at Birkbeck College.  His Ph.D fieldwork was at Rajgir, in eastern India, and his current interests include the archaeology of Buddhism and trade between India and the Roman Empire.

·     Southern India – Kerala and Tamil Nadu
Sat 24 Jan – Fri 6 Feb 2009

Prof John Hines

John Hines is Professor in the School of History and Archaeology at Cardiff University, and former editor of the journal Medieval Archaeology. He works interdisciplinary on the cultural history of Europe from the Iron Age to modern times, especially on Scandinavian archaeology and the literary legacy of the Viking settlements in Iceland and elsewhere.

·     Viking Iceland
Wed 5 – Fri 14 Aug 2009

Nick Jackson

Nick Jackson is an archaeologist specialising in the Bronze Age.  He has lived in Berlin for many years and has supervised excavations in Jordan, Syria and Turkey.

·     Syria – From the Hauran to the Euphrates
Sun 12 – Wed 22 Oct 2008

·     Bare Bones Syria

Sat 21 – Sat 28 March 2009

·     Bare Bones Petra

    Sat 23 – Sat 30 May 2009

·     Jordan, Petra & the Dessert Fortresses
Thu 1 – Sat 10 Oct 2009

·     Syria – From the Hauran to the Euphrates
Sun 25 Oct – Wed 4 Nov 2009

Dr Gill Juleff

Gill Juleff is an archaeo-metallurgist who specialises in early ferrous technology (the archaeology of iron). After working as English Heritage's archaeological conservator for the Southwest, Gill moved to Sri Lanka and worked on a number of archaeological projects on World Heritage sites, directed a major archaeo-metallurgical project set in the southern central highlands of Sri Lanka and associated with a large-scale hydro-electric development scheme.

·     Sri Lanka Over Christmas and New Year
Mon 22 Dec 2008 – Sat 3 Jan 2009

Professor Tony King

Tony King is a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Winchester.  He has excavated extensively in Britian and abroad, including Hayling Island, Meonstoke Roman Villa, Pompeii, Leptis Magna and Volubilis.  He specialises in faunal remains and has studied many excavated assemblages, including those from Pompeii.

·     Ravenna & Aquileia
Fri 4 – Fri 11 Sept 2009

·     Bare Bones Leptis 
Wed 4 – Sun 8 Nov 2009

Professor William Manning

William Manning PhD FSA is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Cardiff University, specialising in Roman Archaeology, particularly ancient technology.

·    Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Mon 22 – Mon 29 Sept 2008

·    Tunisia – Carthage to the Sahara
Tue 28 Oct – Tue 11 Nov 2008

·    Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Mon 20 – Mon 27 April 2009

·    Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Sun 24 – Sun 31 May 2009

·     Sicilia Antiqua
Thu 17 – Sun 27 Sept 2009

Dr Jill Marrington

Jill Marrington PhD is a graduate of Exeter University and the University of California at Irvine. She specialises in the Aegean Bronze Age, Homer and Translation theory, and now lives full time in Crete.

·     Crete Minoan Civilisation

Mon 4 – Mon 11 May 2009

Eireann Marshall

Eireann Marshall Ph.D. is a Research Associate and Associate Lecturer with the Open University as well as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter.  She has published a number of articles on Ancient North Africa, and co-edited volumes on 'Death and Disease in the Ancient City' and ‘Women’s influence on Classical Civilisation’. She has led many tours for Andante, including several to Pompeii/Sicily/Tunisia/Libya, and is bilingual in English and Italian.

·     Libya – Tripolitania & Cyrenaica
Sat 11 – Sun 19 April 2009

·     Bare Bones Pompeii 
Sat 23 – Sat 30 May 2009

Dr David Mattingly
David Mattingly PhD is Professor of Archaeology at the University of Leicester.  His area of expertise is North Africa, and Saharan archaeology in particular.

·          Prehistoric Libya – Rock Art
Tue 21 – Tue 28 Oct 2008

Farès Moussa
Farès Moussa specialises in North African archaeology/ anthropology and is currently at the University of Edinburgh researching Libyco-/Punic religion and funerary art in North Africa. He has wide experience in operations management and coordinating fieldtrips.

·     Bare Bones Leptis 
Sat 4 – Wed 8 April 2009

·     Tunisia – The Punic Wars    
Fri 10 – Fri 17 April 2009 (Easter)

·     Bare Bones Carthage
Sun 25 Oct – Sun 1 Nov 2009

·     Prehistoric Morocco   
Mon 26 Oct – Tue 3 Nov 2009

Dr Georgina Muskett

Georgina Muskett PhD is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Liverpool, where she lectures in Greek Art and Archaeology.  Her research interests also include Minoan and Mycenaean art.

·     Crete Minoan Civilisation

    Mon 6 – Mon 13 April 2009 (Easter)

·     Bare Bones Crete
Tue 12 – Tue 19 May 2009

·     Crete Minoan Civilisation

Mon 28 Sept – Mon 5 Oct 2009

·    The Peloponnese Homer to Hadrian
Mon 5 – Tue 13 Oct 2009

Dr Paul Nicholson
Dr Paul Nicholson is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at Cardiff University. His research areas are Egyptian Archaeology, early technology and archaeological science, and he has conducted fieldwork and excavation at Tell el-Amarna, Memphis and other sites in Egypt.  He is co-author, with Dr. Ian Shaw, of The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt.

·    Egypt – Classic Thebes
Mon 13 – Sun 19 April 2009

Tony O’Connor

Tony O’Connor has excavated widely in Britain, Italy and Libya, and is now a museum archaeologist.  He specialises in the Roman world and numismatics.

·     Provence – barbarians, Greeks and Romans
Mon 1 – Sun 7 Sept 2008

·     Libya – Tripolitania & Cyrenaica
Tue 14 – Wed 22 Oct 2008

·    Syria – From Hauran to Euphrates
Sun 28 Dec  – Wed 7 Jan 2008

·     Bare Bones Egypt 
Sat 7 – Mon 16 March 2009

Sun 27 Dec 2009 – Tue 05 Jan 2010

·     Provence – barbarians, Greeks and Romans
Mon 4 – Sun 10 May 2009

·     Libya – Tripolitania & Cyrenaica
Tue 13 – Wed 21 Oct 2009

Professor John Prag

John Prag MA, Dip Class Arch, DPhil, FSA, is Professor Emeritus at Manchester Museum, where he was Keeper of Archaeology.  He is involved with work on the reconstruction of ancient faces.

·     The Peloponnese Homer to Hadrian
Mon 29 Sept – Tue 7 Oct 2008

·    The Peloponnese Homer to Hadrian
Tue 21 – Wed 29 April 2009

Dr Kay Prag

Kay Prag DPhil FSA has worked and published widely in the Near East since 1963. She has written Blue Guides to the region, is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Manchester and directs excavation and research projects in Jordan.

·     Jordan – Petra & the dessert fortresses
Thur 2 – Sat 11 October 2008

·     Syria – From Hauran to Euphrates
Sun 5 – Wed 15 April 2009 (Easter)

·     Jordan – Petra & the dessert fortresses
Thu 16 – Sat 25 April 2009

Julian Richards
Julian Richards is a Wessex based archaeologist and broadcaster with passion for Stonehenge. The presenter of BBC2's long-running 'Meet the Ancestors' series, his 'Stonehenge - the story so far' has just been published by English Heritage.

Wessex and Stonhengiana
Fri 4 – Sun 6 July 2008

Terry Richardson

Terry Richardson has a university background in Ancient History and Classical Civilisation.  He is an author of the ‘Rough Guide: Turkey’, and co-author/photographer of ‘The Lycian Way’.  He lives and works in southwest Turkey.

·      Eastern Turkey – Euphrates, Tigris & Beyond
Mon 15 – Sat 27 Sept 2008

·     Bare Bones Troy
Sun 5 – Sun 12 April 2009

Carrie Roth Murray

·      The Etruscans, Romantic Ruins in Rural Italy
Sun 19 – Sun 26 April 2009

John Sadler

John Sadler BA (Hons) M.Phil. FRHistS FSA (Scotl.) is a military historian working in the North-East of England. Part-time lecturer at Newcastle University, he currently works as Heritage Officer for County Durham. He has also worked as a Battlefield tour guide taking parties around the battlefields of the UK and Europe, from Caesar to Montgomery, with many publications to his name.

·      Caesar’s Gallic Wars
Mon 22 – Sun 28 Sept 2008

·      Caesar’s Gallic Wars
Sun 20 – Sat 26 Sept 2009

Dr Gillian Shepherd

Gillian Shepherd PhD is Lecturer in Classical Archaeology at the University of Birmingham.  She specialises in the Greek colonisation of Italy and Sicily.

·      Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Mon 8 – Mon 15 Sept 2008

·      Sicily’s – Art & Architecture
Sun 19 – Sun 26 April 2009

·      Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Mon 7 – Mon 14 Sept 2009

Professor Alastair Small

Alastair Small is an Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Alberta, Canada, and Honorary Fellow in Classics at the University of Edinburgh.  He specialises in the Iron Age and Roman period in southern Italy.

·      Pompeii for Cognoscenti 
Mon 1 – Mon 8 Sept 2008

·      Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Sun 5 – Sun 12 Oct 2008

·      Apulia - Caves, Castles & Cathedrals

    Thur 28 May – Thu 04 June 2009

·      Pompeii for Cognoscenti 
Mon 14 – Mon 21 Sept 2009

·      Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Mon 5 – Mon 12 Oct 2009

Steven Snape

Dr Steven Snape is Senior Lecturer in Egyptian Archaeology at Liverpool University. His main research and teaching interests are Ramesside Egypt (especially its external contacts) and the sacred landscape of Ancient Egypt. He has directed fieldwork in the Nile Delta, Sinai, Middle Egypt and Thebes, and is currently Director of the Liverpool University Mission to Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham.

·          Egypt – Land of the Pharaohs
Sun 12 – Mon 27 Oct 2008

·          Egypt – Land of the Pharaohs
Sun 11 – Mon 26 Oct 2009

Dr Nick Thorpe

Nick Thorpe PhD is Senior Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Winchester.  He has published books and articles on ancient Wessex, early agriculture, warfare and ancient inventions.

·      Brittany
Mon 8 – Sun 14 Sept 2008

·     Bare Bones Wessex
Fri 28 – Sun 30 Aug 2009

Dr Judith Toms

Judith Toms DPhil teaches in London and Oxford, focussing on the ancient art and archaeology of the central Mediterranean.  Her research mainly concerns the Etruscan civilization and its neighbours.

·      The Etruscans, Romantic Ruins in Rural Italy
Sun 19 - Sun 26 Oct 2008

·      Sardinia
Sat 27 Sept – Sun 5 Oct 2008

·      Pompeii, Herculaneum & Classical Campania
Mon 13 – Mon 20 April 2009

·      Sardinia
Sat 26 Sept – Sun 4 Oct 2009

·      The Etruscans, Romantic Ruins in Rural Italy
Sun 18 - Sun 25 Oct 2009

Dr Nick Vella

Dr Nicholas Vella read Archaeology at the University of Malta and was awarded a PhD from the University of Bristol (UK) in 1999. A holder of the Rome Scholarship (1998) at the British School at Rome, he is now Senior Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Malta. His research interests include later Mediterranean prehistory, landscape archaeology, and the development of archaeological traditions in Malta. He is currently co-director of the Zejtun Villa excavation project (Malta) and has co-edited Debating Orientalization in Antiquity (Equinox, 2006).

·          Malta & Gozo
Mon 21 – Sun 27 Sept 2009

Richard Wallace

Richard Wallace MA taught Greek and Roman art, architecture, history and civilisation at the University of Keele, where he was head of the Classics Dept for 13 years.

·      Umbria, Archaeology in the Hill Towns
Tue 30 Sept– Tue 7 Oct 2008

·      Latium – The roman countryside
Sun 3 – Sun 10 May 2009

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