Travel has always been a big part of my life – in fact, one of my earliest childhood memories is being in Singapore, where I lived with my family at the time.
I also married ‘a man on the move’ and continued to travel and live abroad during much of my married life. I consider myself very fortunate to have lived in Singapore, Germany, Hong Kong, Egypt and South Africa.
This life of travel has fostered in me a fascination with the world at large, and a love of learning about new lands, their peoples and cultures. Whilst it was my love of art and history that caused me to fall in love with Italy, the Italian Renaissance and the wider Mediterranean, it was during my years in Egypt that I developed a fascination for Egyptology which has never left me.
My home is now in the West Country; and much of my professional life has been here, where I have worked teaching, training and coaching, and for the last 13 years, as a speaker delivering my talks.
I deliver my presentations to a wide range of societies, clubs and groups across a wide area; and as a speaker on Cruise Liners – see Cruises.
To learn more about my presentations, please go to my Presentations page.
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During Covid, there were no Taunton Literary Festivals. However, the Egyptian Society Taunton was delighted to team up with Brendon Books of Taunton again for the 2022 festival – it had been much missed.
And we started with a bang, when Prof Toby Wilkinson came to speak to the society on 26th November 2022, with his excellent talk ‘Tutankhamun’s Trumpet’, which was celebrating the 1st centennial anniversary of the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
It was a landmark day on 26th November 1922, when Howard Carter broke a small opening into the tomb, and peered inside.
When asked by Lord Carnarvon if he could see anything, Carter made the (now famous) statement, ‘Yes, wonderful things!’
And it was a wonderful event, lecture and visit by Toby to mark such a fantastic, world-renowned discovery!
Unearthing Egyptology - Talks on Egyptology 