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  • 2026 Summer Term
    • Iron Age and Roman Wales
    • The Roman Empire in the 4th century
    • Leptis Magna and the Tripolitania – Romes Gate to the Sahara
    • Roman Mediolanum – from the market at the Po crossing to the capital of the West.
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: Trade in and around the Sahara
    • Scandinavia before the Vikings
    • Catastrophe IV: The end of the Bronze Age – The 3.2k event and the Sea People
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
    • Novel Discussion Group Summer 2026
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Sea Music – Debussy, Delius and Vaughan Williams
    • Jeremiah 21-32
    • Lost Languages: the Story of Decipherment
  • Ancient World
    • Iron Age and Roman Wales
    • The Roman Empire in the 4th century
    • Roman Mediolanum – from the market at the Po crossing to the capital of the West.
    • Leptis Magna and the Tripolitania – Romes Gate to the Sahara
  • World Archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: Trade in and around the Sahara
    • Catastrophe IV: The end of the Bronze Age – The 3.2k event and the Sea People
  • Art History
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
  • History other than Ancient History
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
    • Lost Languages: the Story of Decipherment
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND LIVY ON HANNIBAL
  • Literature
    • Novel Discussion Group Summer 2026
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Sea Music – Debussy, Delius and Vaughan Williams
  • Religion and Theology
    • Jeremiah 21-32
  • Past courses (recordings still available)
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
      • Catastrophe III: The (other) year without summer – The ‘volcanic winter’ of 536AD.
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
    • Avignon – the Papal Home in France
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
  • MANCENT Booking form
  • Event Calendar April to July 2026
  • Buy Courses Online
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  • Latest Blog Post: Ancient Olympia in the Autumn?
  • 2026 Summer Term
    • Iron Age and Roman Wales
    • The Roman Empire in the 4th century
    • Leptis Magna and the Tripolitania – Romes Gate to the Sahara
    • Roman Mediolanum – from the market at the Po crossing to the capital of the West.
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: Trade in and around the Sahara
    • Scandinavia before the Vikings
    • Catastrophe IV: The end of the Bronze Age – The 3.2k event and the Sea People
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
    • Novel Discussion Group Summer 2026
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Sea Music – Debussy, Delius and Vaughan Williams
    • Jeremiah 21-32
    • Lost Languages: the Story of Decipherment
  • Ancient World
    • Iron Age and Roman Wales
    • The Roman Empire in the 4th century
    • Roman Mediolanum – from the market at the Po crossing to the capital of the West.
    • Leptis Magna and the Tripolitania – Romes Gate to the Sahara
  • World Archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: Trade in and around the Sahara
    • Catastrophe IV: The end of the Bronze Age – The 3.2k event and the Sea People
  • Art History
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
  • History other than Ancient History
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
    • Lost Languages: the Story of Decipherment
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND LIVY ON HANNIBAL
  • Literature
    • Novel Discussion Group Summer 2026
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Sea Music – Debussy, Delius and Vaughan Williams
  • Religion and Theology
    • Jeremiah 21-32
  • Past courses (recordings still available)
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
      • Catastrophe III: The (other) year without summer – The ‘volcanic winter’ of 536AD.
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
    • Avignon – the Papal Home in France
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
  • MANCENT Booking form
  • Event Calendar April to July 2026
  • Buy Courses Online
  • My account
  • Latest Blog Post: Ancient Olympia in the Autumn?
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Ancient World

      • SUMMER 2026

      THURSDAYS

      • 13.45-15.45 Roman Empire in the 4th Century

      FRIDAYS

      • 14.00-16.00 Iron Age and Roman Wales

      DAY SCHOOLS:

      SATURDAYS

      • 20th June: Leptis Magna and Roman Tripolitania
      • 18th July: Roman Milan

 

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Like Phoenix from the Ashes: Rome 1300-1650
23 April 2026
Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from
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Silkroad Studies: Trade in and around the Sahara
23 April 2026
SILKROAD STUDIES: Trade in and around the Sahara
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Iron Age and Roman Wales
24 April 2026
Iron Age and Roman Wales
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Scandinavia before the Vikings
25 April 2026
Scandinavia before the Vikings
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Catasptropy IV: Bronze Age Collapse
16 May 2026
Catastrophe IV: The end of the Bronze Age – The 3.
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Our Programme
  • 2026 Summer Term
    • Iron Age and Roman Wales
    • The Roman Empire in the 4th century
    • Leptis Magna and the Tripolitania – Romes Gate to the Sahara
    • Roman Mediolanum – from the market at the Po crossing to the capital of the West.
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: Trade in and around the Sahara
    • Scandinavia before the Vikings
    • Catastrophe IV: The end of the Bronze Age – The 3.2k event and the Sea People
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
    • Novel Discussion Group Summer 2026
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Sea Music – Debussy, Delius and Vaughan Williams
    • Jeremiah 21-32
    • Lost Languages: the Story of Decipherment
  • Ancient World
    • Iron Age and Roman Wales
    • The Roman Empire in the 4th century
    • Roman Mediolanum – from the market at the Po crossing to the capital of the West.
    • Leptis Magna and the Tripolitania – Romes Gate to the Sahara
  • World Archaeology
    • SILKROAD STUDIES: Trade in and around the Sahara
    • Catastrophe IV: The end of the Bronze Age – The 3.2k event and the Sea People
  • Art History
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
  • History other than Ancient History
    • Like Phoenix from the Ashes: The City of Rome from 1300- 1650
    • Lost Languages: the Story of Decipherment
  • Latin
    • Ovid in Pontus – The poems of old age
    • LATIN PROSE COMPOSITION AND LIVY ON HANNIBAL
  • Literature
    • Novel Discussion Group Summer 2026
  • Music
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Sea Music – Debussy, Delius and Vaughan Williams
  • Religion and Theology
    • Jeremiah 21-32
  • Past courses (recordings still available)
    • How did that survive? – The survival stories of Ancient Ruins
    • Catastrophe!!
      • Catastrophe: Vesuvius and Thera/Santorini
      • Catastrophe III: The (other) year without summer – The ‘volcanic winter’ of 536AD.
    • Ancient Olympia – so much more than a sports arena
    • The Indus Valley Civilisation
    • The Popes in the countryside: Anagni, Viterbo and elsewhere
    • Avignon – the Papal Home in France
  • The MANCENT conferences
    • 7th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: The Roman Army – what survives?
    • 6th MANCENT Roman Army Conference: Living with the Roman Army
      • ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
    • 5th Roman MANCENT Conference: The Roman army and Mining in Scotland and elsewhere
    • 2017 MANCENT conference: Rivers, Harbours and the Roman Army
    • Producing for the Legion or Production by the Legion?
      • Conference Summaries 24 Sept 2016
    • Roman Gask Project lecture 2020 -Thousand years in Glenesk, the changing life of a Scottish glen.
  • The MANCENT blog
    • 31 Dec 2024: Welcome to a new year and the festival of Janus
    • Blog 30 Sept 24: Why talk about the Silkroad in China?
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Comparing Notes
    • Mornings with a Masterpiece: Haydn’s String Quartets
    • Roman villas in Gaul and Germany: the homes of the invaders and fashion victims?
    • What has a German writer to do with the Grand Tour
    • Roman Britain on screen
    • MANCENT blog: A Chinese Garden in North Staffordshire
    • Why talk about Silkroad in the Indian Ocean?
    • Thinking about Religion in Roman Britain
    • MANCENT 2023 Programme now out
    • Why study Greek and Roman Myths by Tony Keen
    • Today we are 12 years old!
  • MANCENT Booking form
  • Event Calendar April to July 2026
  • Buy Courses Online
  • My account
  • Latest Blog Post: Ancient Olympia in the Autumn?

How to contact us

For general enquiries
Birgitta Hoffmann
MANCENT Course Director
55 Broadwalk
Wilmslow, Cheshire
SK9 5PL

email: courses@mancent.org.uk
phone: 07377 791562


For bookings or information on individual courses:
Please contact the lecturers listed for the specific courses.

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