Author: Alberto Pearson

I’m actually Sound Supervisor for the programme and I’ve worked on them all including the pilot! I knew very little about archaeology myself when it first started but knew it would make good tele the first time we followed Mick Aston round the church on the pilot – sheer delight! It’s helped me appreciate the […]

I was born in Kent but spent most of my school days in Berkshire. My Dad worked at Aldermaston at AWRE and I went to school in Newbury, which at that time was a quiet market town without the traffic problems of today, just occupied by Americans at Greenham Common I spent most of my […]

– Home page – Brugge – Tunisia – Cairo – Georgia – Co Kerry – Co Kerry Flora – Cyprus Flora – Bellapais Abbey – Kyrenia Castle – Shipwreck Museum – Sunsets in Cyprus – Fabrika Hill Excavations – The Villa of Theseus – Tomb of the Kings – Xanten – Arnhem

I was born in Yorkshire some time ago (my first milestone birthday and finding it difficult to talk about). I moved to East Anglia with my family where I decided that Law was more lucrative than archaeology. 2 years on, I am in the Midlands, still practising law (the best way!). I have been interested […]

Colchester Roman Society Images from the filming of Tony Robinson’s Romans – Julius Caesar Four-part series in which Tony Robinson chronicles the lives of three legendary Romans – Caesar, Caligula and Nero. In part one, he looks at Julius Caesar, one of the most monumental figures in history. When in 44BC he was stabbed to […]

Brought up and educated in Somerset and spent 10 years travelling the world in HM Forces where I developed a keen interest in ancient worlds & monuments. I have no formal archaeology training just an inquiring mind which is happy to have TTF & TT around along with other programmes to satisfy the need for […]

The English army consisted of around 17,000 men made up as follows : Heavy cavalry, well equipped with chain mail and armour , a 12ft lance and a mace or battle axe as a close combat weapon. Archers carried a long bow, 24 arrows and a dagger as a personal weapon. They were enlisted from […]

I’m married to David and we have two daughters, Debbie born in June ’88 and Abigail, born in August ’90. Also in the family are a black and white cat called Socks, a chocolate Labrador Retriever, Rosie, and a Border Terrier called Jake. I now live in Usk, South Wales, but arrived at this abode […]

The channel crossing according to Dio “They were sent over in three divisions, in order that they not be hindered in landing as might happen to a single force, and in their voyage across they became discouraged because they were driven back in their course, and then plucked up courage because of a flash of […]

I was born in Hackney, London and have always told people that I was born a Cockney. Unfortunately, (some would say, fortunately) my parents moved to the Midlands before my 1st birthday and so I haven’t had a “Cockney upbringing” (whatever that means!). So far I haven’t found any definite way to prove my assumed […]