The Assumption of Mary, Titian

A Scholarship winner … 18 years on

We’ve been running our Trenchard Cox Art History Abroad Scholarship for over 20 years, continuing our mission to inspire a lifelong love of learning about subjects from art and architecture to history, literature and music. Here we catch up with one of our former winners, Annabel...


Colourful fresco by Masaccio from the Brancacci chapel

How to find grants for your gap year

In this post we’re going to show you some brilliant scholarships and grants to help fund your gap year. Like many people, we believe in the life-changing benefits of a gap year and experiential education which is why we’ve been running our AHA Trenchard...


Could robots steal our jobs?

Have you ever worried a robot is going to STEAL YOUR JOB? What are you doing to prevent this from happening? In his global bestseller ‘21 Lessons for the 21st Century’ Yuval Noah Harari writes about the crucial need for teaching reinvention rather than...


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 on the Bay of Naples

Trying not to be in touch

“Dad, what’s that music you played me; old music, something demonic and James Bond. I want to play it to Marie (one of AHA’s tutors)”. My heart leapt. It is Bosch Butt Music and the score appears on the bare bottom of a figure...