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Travel Agents / Tour Operators

  Orkney Archaeology Tours
Offering a choice of all-inclusive one-week small group holidays, private short breaks, including 4-night Orkney Adventure and 6-night Orkney Odyssey, and private day tours.

  Arche Tours   -   Architectural Travel
The Art & Architecture of Bilbao & Barcelona,  Barcelona Style: Design Inspiration,  Berlin: Building the New City, The Magic of Bruges,  Antwerp and Brussels: An Architectural Journey from Medieval to Art Nouveau,  The Treasures of Istanbul & Northern Greece,  Prague: Ancient City with Modern Accents,  Art & Design in Provence,  Classical Provence: Love Among the Ruins,  The Glasgow Style: Mackintosh & the Arts & Crafts Movement in Scotland & Architectural Treasures of Edinburgh,  Sicily: Archaeological & Architectural Splendors,  Masterpieces of Southern Spain: Granada, Corboda, Seville,  Tuscany: Hidden Architectural Jewels,  Villas & Gardens of Florence & Tuscany,  Palladian Villas of Veneto,  The Architecture of Venice.
  Andante Travels   -   Archaeology and Ancient History Tours
A.o. Crete: Minoan Civilisation, The Peloponnese: Archaeology in the land of Homer's heroes, Mycenae, Athens & Delphi - an introduction to the Ancient Greeks



  Battlefield Tours   -   War Research Society Battlefield, Memorial, Pilgrimage and Heritage Tours
o First World War:
Somme, War Walks, Ypres, High Wood, Mons/Marne, Plugstreet Wood, Verdun, 1st July Front Line, Ypres, Salient, 1st World War Italy, Asiago, Piave, Isonzo, Gallipoli ...
o Second World War:
St. Nazaire, Normandy Beaches, Combined Ops Raid, Dunkirk, Dambusters Raid/Colditz Castle, Battle of the Bulge, Arnhem/Nijmegen, Berlin/Belsen, Italian Campaign, 2nd World War Poland, Monte Cassino, Berlin, Anzio, The Great Escape, Salerno, Auschwitz, Sangro River, Colditz Castle, Singapore and Bridge on the River Kwai ...
o Zulu and Boer War:
A choice of 2 great tours: Rorkes Drift, Spioen, Ladysmith, Kimberley, Magersfontein ...
  Ecoviro Afria   -   small group tour operator
Journeys  to the most breathtaking places in Southern Africa.
  Filoxenia   -   Greece   -   mainland including Peloponnese and unusual islands
Particularly skilled at finding villas for small and larger parties, at fly-drives and seeking out small family run hotels, arranging honeymoons as well as leader led tours for walking, painting, archaeology, botany and other special interests and holidays for those with special needs
  Glajd UK
Some of the areas that Glajd UK specialise in are Industrial Heritage, Special Exhibition and Displays, Carousel Tours, Antique Toy Collections, Mechanical Music Events, Battlefield tours all over the world, Flora and Garden Tours and even tours of Cemeteries.  They work with vintage vehicles, modern coaches, steam railways, the SS Shieldhall, the Flying Scotsman and even the odd Zeppelin in Germany at times.
Telephone: 00 44 1980 621418,  Fax: 00 44 1980 621900,  PO Box 1829, Shrewton Salisbury Wiltshire SP3 4PN
  Holts Tours [ Titan Group ]   -   Battlefield Tours
First World War, Second World War, Revolution and Empire, Across the Centuries
Destinations: UK, Belgium, Cyprus, France, Italy, Germany, South Africa, Spain, Malta, Netherlands and more.
  Kingshead Adventures
 Although specialising in battlefield tours to the Western Front in the Great War, they are more than happy to incorporate visits to Second World War venues such as Arnhem and Normandy, or to arrange a bespoke battlefield tour for you to these WW2 sites.
  Midas Tours   -   Full Escorted Battlefield Tours and Historical Tours
First World War, Second World War, Napoleontic Wars, 19th Century Wars Tours, Ancient and medieval Tours, General History Tours
  National Trust   -   Volunteering; working holidays
Holidays take place in over 100 beautiful locations throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland all guaranteed to help you escape from the stresses and strains of everyday life. These include coastal, woodland, countryside, farmland and historic buildings.
  Perception Travel   -   Individual Tour Planning Specialists
In-depth private D-Day Tours directed in English by a professional English guide. In-depth talk at each site gives renewed insight into the dramatic events of 1944 and a look at how they have been seen by history.
  Tours-with-experts
Tours with Experts presents the opportunity for you to visit historical sites of conflict throughout the world, accompanied by specialist guides to explain the significance of the terrain and the events that occured at these locations. Whether your interest is in the English Civil War, the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, the First World War or the Second World War, we can take you there with an expert.
  Typenet   -   battlefield and military tours in France and Belgium
Covering Ypres, Vimy and the Somme. We provide small group tours to WW1 and WW2 sites and also Commonwealth War Graves. Australian and Canadian interest tours are also available. Their War Tours cover a wide range of battlefields.
  Voyages Jules Verne   -   journeys for the discerning traveller
The aim of the Company has always been to re-invest itineraries with a sense of occasion so that, even on short European journeys, a reason for travel shines through: gardens, history, architecture, archaeology, culture and wildlife are some of the themes that inspire the itineraries.
  Waterloo Battlefield Tours   -   guided tours to the battlefield of Waterloo

  Turkland Travel Agency [ Istanbul ]   -   Anzac Day tours

Archaeology / Guides / Related books

The Practical Archaeologist: How We Know What We Know About the Past 
Jane McIntosh
This reference to the world of modern archaeology provides a practical understanding of what archaeology is, how archaeologists work, and how they interpret the evidence they find. This revised edition focuses on such critical new developments as: CAT scans, DNA analysis and facial reconstruction; computers and archaeology, including virtual reality reconstruction of buildings and pyramids; spectacular royal burials at Sipan; advances in the study of diet, including the chemical composition of human bones and food residues on vessels; new dating technologies; satellite and ground surveys, and what they reveal about Maya lifeways; new analyses of the Sutton Hoo ship burial, including "sand ghosts"; the latest ideas on megaliths and studies of the bones they contain; and techniques of underwater archaeology.
Paperback 192 pages (September 20, 1999);  Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd.;  Language: English;  ISBN: 0500281815
Time Detectives: Archeology: Revealing the Mysteries  
Advances in technology have moved archaeology into a new age. Yesterday's solitary romantic adventurers are today's team of sophisticated, multi-disciplinary scientists capable of studying ancient diets from bone collagen and reconstructing millenia-old landscapes from fossilized seeds and grains. Excavations today move less earth in two years than those of a couple of generations ago moved in a month - and they learn vastly more about how our ancestors lived. Archaeologists head teams of experts who know how to use infra-red photography to decipher Roman documents etched on wood, and entomologists whose knowledge of beetles makes it impossible to deduce the uses of a wooden site in Bronze Age England.
Ancient Britain  -    James Dyer
This book is for anyone starting out to understand the prehistoric life of Britain from the first human occupation 450,000 years ago, until the Roman conquest in AD 43. James Dyer here succeeds in bringing to life a thriving picture of the people and customs of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages, based on the sometimes sparse clues presented by prehistoric archaeological sites across Britain. For many readers, Ancient Britain will provide the first chance to get to grips with the present state of our knowledge of prehistoric agriculture, settlement, trade and ritual. The rise of power, with the development of a class system at the hands of the first metal users, is charted through to the growth of wealth and the emergence of a warlike and advanced Iron Age society - a society that was nonetheless unable to withstand the might of Rome. With over 130 illustrations and photographs, including a number of specially drawn reconstructions, this highly visual book is an ideal primer for all students of prehistory and all those who are simply interested in the subject.
Paperback 176 pages (May 5, 1990);  Publisher: Routledge,an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd. ;  Language: English;  ISBN: 0415151511


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  Bletchleypark
During WW2 the German armed forces top secret codes were broken at Bletchley Park, providing the allies with vital information towards their war effort. The world's first programmable computer and other technologies we take for granted today were initiated at Bletchley Park.
  Iron Harvest
Historical tours to the battlefields, memorials and last resting places of the fallen.
  Historic Houses Association
"The HHA represents around 300 historic buildings and country estates in the British Isles, including the finest houses, castles, gardens and parks in British heritage."
  Livius   -   articles on ancient history
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