The OU department is full to bursting with wonderful people. Wave this at anyone you know who's eligible!
Just finished Any Questions, up against Richard Tice. I knew there would be plenty of BS on climate, but he spouted rubbish on *every* subject. Even claimed that the EU is not our biggest trading partner, but the US. In fact, we have 3x more trade with the EU. He believes whatever he wants to.
Lioness from the Milan Archaeological Museum.
Milan has a lot of mosaics and I stocked up on photos on my recent trip!
#MosaicMonday
Coming up on the show tomorrow!
Alexandra asks Chance Bonar (@chancebonar.bsky.social)
whether we can really claim that "Roman slavery wasn't *that* bad," whilst still retaining our humanity.
When we said this show would cast a critical eye on the ancient world, we really meant it!
It's that time of year again....
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Timid librarian in plea to save my workplace from making a huge mistake.
A whole floor of Cardiff University's main library is under threat of being repurposed to teaching facilities with the removal of 7km of shelving holding valuable books. Pls share x
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Happy birthday to the City of Rome #onthisday A.U.C. 2778. (Rome was founded on 21st April 753 BCE, according to the traditional chronology of Varro and the Fasti Capitolinus.)
George Monbiot
Zena Kamash
Ancient History 101 Podcast
Fishbourne Roman Palace
This has really made my day to see the fabulous @marianajlopez.bsky.social flag my book as being important to her awesome book Sonic Pasts that looks into acoustic heritage and soundscapes. Just wonderful - thank you @marianajlopez.bsky.social 😊
The fab feeling when you’ve done a viva with the awesome @valmhope.bsky.social and you end the week feeling so very positive about… well… everything really! Times like today I really love my job 😃
