Old Wine in New Bottles by Gillian Hovell

Name: Old Wine in New Bottles by Gillian Hovell
Start: 2026-02-02T19:00:00+00:00
Location: Market Bosworth Dixie School

Schedule

Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Market Bosworth Dixie School | Nuneaton, EN

This talk is in itself a celebration of how the Ancient Greeks and Romans created our love of wine. How wine's popularity spread, how wine production has and has not changed, what wine connoisseurs 2,000 years ago thought made a wine great!
As an archaeologist who has excavated a Roman wine-producing warehouse, I promise that this talk will refresh your palette!
Gillian Hovell has a BA (Hons) Latin and Ancient History, Exeter University, and then branched out into archaeology. Ex-BBC, lecturer for British Museum and York University, an award winning writer and author who specialises in relating the ancient world to our modern lives, in person, in the field, on line and in the media. She teaches adult education courses in Latin, archaeology and ancient history and has publicly lectures widely and passionately, on cruises and tours and for museums such as the British Museum & Ashmolean, national press, universities, literary festivals, and diverse societies including Classical Associations, the U3A and the National Trust.