Francis Woodman has a lectureship at the University of Cambridge and is based at the Institute of Continuing Education at Madingley Hall. A Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London, he specializes in art and architecture from the Romans to the Reformation. Other subjects range from the patronage of Medieval Women to the Architecture of Islam. A post-graduate of the Courtauld Institute and former research fellow of Christ’s Cambridge, he has had academic responsibility for all the Art History and Architecture programmes at the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education since 1997, and in addition, is Academic Director of the Building Conservation Certificate programme. Dr. Woodman is also joint Academic Director for the University of Cambridge Certificate in Early Historical Studies in England. Amongst many publications are books on Canterbury Cathedral, Norwich Cathedral and Kings’ College Chapel and has published papers and chapters on a wide range of topics including the Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, as well as chapters on women’s birthright and the endless inheritance dispute by the daughters of the earl of Warwick. He has conducted research into the lives of medieval women for more than forty years, publishing a pioneering article on Lady Margaret Holland as long ago as 1976. More recently there has been ‘Women behaving badly’ for the British Archaeological Association, lectures at both Oxford and Cambridge on medieval women and last autumn he spoke on Joan, Countess of Kent at the International Black Prince Conference in Canterbury. Frank is an experienced tour leader, having led many art and architecture tours to France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Libya, Japan, Cambodia.