Where has the Gap Year gone?

Where has the Gap Year gone and is it coming back? Last year A-level results were announced and the media picked up on the rise of the ‘micro Gap Year’ or ‘gap month’ and here at Art History Abroad we also saw that trend...


Summer course students in front of huge fresco at Palazzo Abatellis, Palermo

A tutor is not the same as a lecturer

Director, Nick Ross, explains the why our AHA tutors have a very specific role. A tutor helps a student with their studies and the development of their ideas in situations outside a classroom, either individually or in small groups. It is this distinct role of the...


‘If I could, I’d do it all over again’

Before having found AHA, I had never been away from home without the company of friends or family. The idea of being on my own was a terrifying concept. But AHA changed that for me. I came into the program thinking I would fail....


The Father of Art History

The 8th of June is the day when the father of Art History was murdered in 1768.  Joachim Winckelmann was the man who in the 1750’s made the distinction between different styles and periods of Greek sculpture which became the methodology of Art History.  He...


Doing our bit

Main photo: The Travelling Companions, 1862, Oil on Canvas, Augustus Leopold Egg (1816 – 1863). For all of us, I think, there is a moment when the penny drops.  For me it was when I learnt that the world wide storage of data has...