 Despite the longstanding animosity with which Michell held academic archaeology, in 1991 the peer-reviewed archaeological journal "Antiquity" invited him to author a review of a Southbank exhibit, "From Art to Archaeology", which was duly published in the journal.In the 1980s Michell was a member of the Lindisfarne Association and a teacher at its School of Sacred Architecture.He lectured at the Kairos Foundation, an "educational charity specifically founded to promote the recovery of traditional values in the Arts and Sciences".