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.
