Denise Allen PhD has a background in archaeology, and is a specialist in Roman glass with a wide interest in Classical civilisations.
2011 Tours
Bare Bones Carthage Sun 2 - Sun 9 October
Intro Rome comes to Carthage Mon 7 - Sat 12 November
2012 Tours
Bare Bones Sicily Mon 19 - Mon 26 March
South-West Turkey Mon 21 - Mon 28 May
The Aegean Coast Sat 22 September - Thu 4 October
Bare Bones Pompeii Mon 29 October - Sun 4 November
Biography
Denise began her archaeological career as a full-time digger, working for three years on sites all over the UK. She then studied archaeology at Cardiff University and, after a year spent plotting air photographs in the Buckinghamshire County Museum, went back to Cardiff to do a PhD on Roman Glass. She has continued to work as a freelance glass specialist ever since, juggling this with bringing up a family, working on the cataloguing of artefacts for the Hampshire County Museum Service, lecturing for the WEA and various University extra-mural departments and leading archaeological tours. Her first involvement with Andante came in the early days, when she led the first tours to Tunisia and Sicily, and she joined the office staff in 1999, became Deputy Director shortly afterwards, and is now responsible for the tour programme. She continues to lead tours whenever she can!
