New book! Women in the History of Language Learning and Teaching.

Looks like it's Advent.

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New Book! (Spoiler: all the Ptolemies die at the end.)

In this week’s #PeoplingBlog post, our Egyptian colleagues from the Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage project offer us a 12-point manifesto which highlights the ways in which the public can treat Egyptian mummified ancestral remains with dignity and respect peoplingthepast.com/2025/10/31/b... 🧵 /1

Language & History is now accepting applications for Associate Editors.

Funded Classics PhD opportunity at the University of Reading: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ960/t...

SUPPORT THE EDUCATIONAL BOOKSHOP! We would hugely appreciate any support you are able to give at this time. Find out more here: www.gofundme.com/f/jerusalems...

www.aup.nl/en/book/9789... Now out, from Amsterdam University Press: Colonial Vocabularies: Teaching and Learning Arabic, 1870-1970. Big thank you to everyone involved in this project, which was a lot of fun! (It's a free to download ebook, so please don't buy the hard copy.)

Everyone please cross your fingers 🤞🏻that the bullies of the Classicists listserv have got better things to do than be dramatic today because we’ve just circulated this with details of our next CAWS / EO event: everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/i... Please come and please share! 🇵🇸🥰

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate. To mark the festive season, here is the 1892 Toussaint-Langenscheidt method for learning English, through the medium of Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Fully funded PhD at University of Reading and British Museum, working with Professor Rachel Mairs and Dr. Victoria Donnellan. All details here: www.reading.ac.uk/doctoral-res...

I'm delighted to say that my new book is now available for free download (or hard copy purchase) from UCL Press: www.uclpress.co.uk/products/233... A huge thank you to everyone who supported this project along the way.