West Wales Decorative and Fine Arts Lecture - The Celts

The Celts 

From around 750 BC to 12 BC, the Celts were the most powerful people in central and northern Europe. There were many groups (tribes) of Celts, speaking a vaguely common language.

The word Celt comes from the Greek word, Keltoi, which means barbarians and is properly pronounced as "Kelt".

They lived in parts of Europe from the 8C to the mid 1C BC. Though Greek and Romn writers portrayed them as fearsome, barbaric warriors, their archaeological remains reveal an accomplished society whose metal work shows a technical and artistic brilliance unsurpassed in prehistoric Europe. In Autumn 2015 the British Museum will be holding an exhibition called ‘The Celts’.

Lecturer: Barbara Askew grew up in Eton with Windsor Castle as part of her daily view. She graduated with an honours degree in History and taught History for 15 years before qualifying as a Blue Badge Guide. She is a lecturer, examiner and course director on Blue Badge Training Courses and an acknowledged expert on Windsor Castle, for which she has been the Blue Badge Guides’ Site Liaison Representative since 1990.  Barbara is a rota guide at the British Museum, the Houses of Parliament and the Albert Memorial, and conducts historically-themed walking tours in Windsor for the Windsor Festival and Further Education groups.