Of course, in her lifetime she is barred from the education necessary for such endeavours. It is therefore most fortunate that she is able to move through time to obtain the training and experience required by the lady antiquary (she cannot disclose the means by which she does this for the present, but perhaps one day she will explain...)!
In the late twentieth century she studied gained a University education in Archaeology, becoming firstly a Bachelor, then Master, of Arts (note the continuing use of manly titles!), following these studies with Doctoral research in the first decade of the new millennium, to obtain an Archaeology PhD.
While in the twenty-first century she has shared the knowledge and skills accumulated during this time by teaching adult 'extra-mural' students at the Universities of Nottingham, Keele, and Oxford. She has also published her research in various academic and popular works; and with an interest in antiquarianism (particularly in the studies of women during the 17th - early 19th centuries), she is a member of the History of Archaeology Research Network.
Now Mrs. Leach is opening her own (virtual!) establishment: the Antiquarian Academy, through which she might share her research in an accessible and entertaining manner, through occasional guided tours and talks, and guidebooks, on historical sites in and around Derbyshire (see The Grand Tourist Page), and archaeological workshops, team-building, and other training and educational sessions (see Hands on History Page) - as well as occasional gossip through the site blog! In addition, she is exploring how twenty-first century digital technologies might be used to bring her work to a wider audience (see Time Travelling Tours Page). She is also developing a range of prints and greeting cards inspired by the sites and artefacts that she encounters, and the culture of her own times (see Print-shop Window Page).
