Island History and Heritage Field School - Antigua and Barbuda
24 May - 6 June 2026
The 2026 JICAS Island History and Heritage Field School is run in partnership with the University of the West Indies, Five Islands Campus, Antigua and Barbuda and the Antigua and Barbuda Historical Society. This year’s Island History and Heritage Field School will focus on a mixture of site identification and mapping, historical document ground truthing, and field survey in support of recently passed national legislation.
Week one will examine several colonial sites including plantations, fortifications, and civil spaces to give a holistic understanding of Antigua’s colonial past. Focus will be on sites with extensive archival resources for geospatial groundtruthing and layering historical documentation into a GIS environment.
Week two will continue to explore sites across the island, including exposure to Antigua’s indigenous archaeology by mapping the site extent of at least one Amerindian site. This week will also include training in heritage management: what to do after a site has been declared a protected area and the complexities of protecting these kinds of sites in a small island context.
Cost: £3,500 (tuition, accommodation at Waterfront Inn, breakfast and dinner, Monday – Friday, transportation to and from all field work and entry to all other cultural activities).
* Pls note that this does not include flights to and from Antigua.
Waterfront Inn, English Harbor: www.thewaterfrontantigua.com/gallery
Nelson’s Dockyard, English Harbor: www.nationalparksantigua.com
University of West Indies, Five Islands Campus: https://fiveislands.uwi.edu
