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The Cloud that cheers

Philippa Williams receives a wild education in ...

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Who Knew? New Year

Happy New Year! As the days start to get longer again and we start to look forward to summer in the not-too-far-distant future, I wanted to take you back for a look into the past. Because, while New ...

Pompeii: A Guided Walking Tour (Part III)

Thank you for all your responses! I hope you enjoy visiting your favourite sites in the completion of the walking tour below! It’s 75 CE. You’re a merchant from Rome who has come to buy some ...

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Medea at a new level

Medea always seems, despite the constraints that bind her or perhaps because of them, almost too big even for page or stage. aod returns to Kingston’s Rose Theatre in Euripides’ ...

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Interviews

(Not Quite) Thoroughly Modern Martha.

The clock struck thirteen as I stormed the ominous portals under the battlements of the British...

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A chat with Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye

In the midst of the apocalyptic storms that March had sent to whirl around the streets of London,...

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A Day in the Life of a Classicist

Classics is immensely transferable as a subject, and its students go on to almost every walk of...

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Travel

Great Cities of the Roman Empire - Tarragona, Spain

Welcome to Colonia Julia Urbs Triumphalis Tarraco. Better known to us today as Tarragona, it is...

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Samothrace - Moving to a remote Greek island

The 180 km squared Greek island of Samothrace in the North Aegean is dominated by the 1600 metre...

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Dougga By Day

Tunisia, a richly historical land at present under-going a (one hopes, short) period of political...

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Great Cities of the Roman Empire - Nîmes

Le Midi is the name the French have given to the beautiful, southern region of their country and if...

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When in Rome use the underground

It isn’t surprising that Rome’s Underground/Metro system is smaller than that of London’s - after...

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Bacchus in France

Philippa Williams searches for the god of wine in Aquitaine.

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