Professor David O’Connor and Professor Andrew Wallace-Hadrill have spent a great deal of time excavating and conserving the sites of Abydos in Egypt and Herculaneum in Italy respectively. Both continue to yield spectacular discoveries invaluable to classical historians and the world at large.

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Early church buildings developed in a style we call Romanesque that of the round arch and dome of the Roman Empire. For many its elements emphasized the incarnation, or that of God coming down to earth.

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Opus anglicanum, or English work is very fine needlework carried out for ecclesiastical or secular use on clothing from about 1100 – about 1350. It was all about reflecting ‘the beauty of holiness’.

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