Jacqueline Taylor
Regional Qualification(s):
London
Language(s):
English, French, Italian, Spanish
Phone Number(s):
020-7370-6402, 07767-496702, 020-7370-6402
Email:
jacqueline.taylor27@btopenworld.com
Introduction:
10yrs on the move in Europe- Belgrade, Paris, Rome. Bermuda, Bahamas, Sth. America. Back to native London. BB 1972. BA Hons in hist. of Art. Italian at Birkbeck, MA in London studies. For several years taught Clerkenwell & Islington at City Uni.
Personal Interests:
| Theatre History |
| London Walks |
| Literary Tours |
| European Art |
Special Interests:
| Churches & Cathedrals | Monastic London; Early Christian, Norman & Gothic Churches of Great Britain & Ireland; Romanesque & Gothic of Europe. |
| Folklore & Traditions | Celtic / Christian folklore of British Isles; Arthurian Legends. |
| Galleries | London - National Gallery; Tate Gallery; Wallace Collection; Somerset House Collections; Dulwich Gallery. |
| Literature | Shakespeare in Stratford and London; Dickens in London; John Keats; William Blake; Thomas Hardy's Wessex; Jane Austen's England; Lake Poets; Brontes, John Ruskin. |
| Art/Paintings & Sculpture | Celtic and Anglo-Saxon; British Isles medieval-early modern; British painting from Hogarth to Pre-Raphaelites; Italian Trecento; Early / High Renaissance & Baroque Italy & Northern Europe. |
| London Areas in Depth | The City, Covent Garden, Clerkenwell, Islington, Kensington, Mayfair, St James's, Soho, Southwark, Spitalfields, Wesley's London, Westminster. |
| Museums | British Museum (Assyrian, Egyption, Graeco-Roman, British prehistoric & medieval); Victoria & Albert (European Medieval & Renaissance Sculpture & Painting, British Galleries); Order of St John; Sir John Soane's. |
| Stately Homes & Country Houses | Spencer House, Kensington Palace, Kenwood, Leighton House, Blenheim Palace, Chatsworth, Harewood House, Hatfield House, Woburn Abbey, Leeds Castle, Warwick Castle |
| Theatre | Elizabethan & Jacobean; London 16th-20th centuries |
| Walking Tours | London, Bath, Cambridge, Canterbury, Chester, Lincoln, Rye, Salisbury, Shrewsbury, Wells, Winchester, Oxford, York |
Endorsements:
Parliament, British Museum, York Minster, Somerset House, Docklands, Canterbury Cathedral, 2012 Venues
Additional Qualifications:
MA LFGGL
Driver Guide:
No