A few photos from damp Newcastle this morning as I head home after a great Classical Collections Network event yesterday. There will be a write up coming soon on our website for those who couldn't make it

I am also heading northwards to enjoy this event which will be kicking off right about now. Can't wait to join you all and sorry to be missing the start!

I’d just like to put out into the world that I’d quite like to host a documentary, and to do other kinds of media and tv sort of work, and I think I’d be pretty good at it. So, like, hit me up if you want me to do something with or for you.

A couple of places for our event on Friday have become available. Join us to talk about sensory experiences of the ancient world!

🎭 Congratulations to Dr Lucy Jackson, whose exhibition '‘The Greeks: Radical Reinvention’ has opened at the National Theatre’s Wolfson Gallery! 👉 The exhibition tells the story of how the NT has reimagined Greek drama across six decades 📅 Open until early spring 🔗 buff.ly/dWh0FLz

I wasn't planning to forage and make jam this year as I still have some left from previous years. But I just can't walk past bushes with abundant fruit dropping off them and rotting on the ground. So I guess I am making jam now

Very excited to advertise the full programme and registration details for our Athens conference, 22-24 October 2025! mountainsofgreece.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2025/09/13/c...

Nice walk this afternoon. Mostly looking pretty autumnal now except for the enterprising local farm flogging entry to their Insta-ready field of glorious sunflowers, channelling summer in France 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

Free lecture by Prof Jaś Elsner at Senate House on 10th October. Book on the link below. The 28th Denys Haynes Memorial Lecture Monument, movement and the ritual body: ancient Indian, Roman and Greek art | British Museum share.google/glf556KROUQV...

Now up on the CRSN site! Antonio Papapicco and Valeria Spacciante - the organisers of the CRSN/ICS 2025 Summer Series - reflect on the theme of ancient violence and its reception in the modern world. Read more here: classicalreception.org/modern-refle...

Appel à contribution – Malheurs du corps épique : figuration, symbolisation (Antiquité, Moyen Âge, Renaissance) rmblf.be/2025/08/31/a...

Well. It’s official. You can now submit your proposals to the New Perspectives on Ancient Greek Religion book series, published by Edinburgh University Press! #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Still a few places left for the Classical Collections Network's event on Friday 19th September, at the Great North Museum in Newcastle. A great programme of speakers! Grateful for funding from Hellenic Society. Colour, Texture and Sound: Experiencing the Ancient World share.google/gP5MtTh7N7LJ...

It’s an event! Delighted to be giving a lecture on ‘Ideas of Cyprus in British-made ceramics, 1809 - 1920’ at the Centre for Visual Arts Research in Nicosia later this month - drawing on objects from the wonderful CVAR collection.

Well this is excellent news. My 14yo certainly loves going to Waterstones and buying books. I am not convinced she actually READS them though. But then who am I to talk, I have stacks of unread books lying around the place

A horse struggles to exist #art #animation #indieanimationday #horse

I have been so busy recently I've failed to post about a load of brilliant museums I've visited over the last few weeks. Catching up time! First, the Museum of Making in Derby.

Amazing clouds, and this post just made me look out the window and notice we have them here now too

If you want to hear the latest news from one of Iraq's most iconic sites, and how excavations work, episode 77 is for you

I love these two photographs of the King’s Library with proposed designs for new lighting drawn on them from the 1950s. Originally built in the 1820s - big glass chandeliers might have been a step too far! #BritishMuseum #archive

This time yesterday I was watching Totoro with my son. It really was as magical as I had heard. A wonderful experience, do go if you get the chance

Launching the Humanist Heritage digital collection! A new resource beautifully uncovering 130 yrs of our movement's story. Testament to the enduring power of humanist ideas & the people who've championed them. humanists.uk/2025/07/18/h...

Join the excellent @madeleineog.bsky.social on 19 October for a guided humanist history walk! bloomsburyfestival.org.uk/events/human...

We have had a weekend in Coventry, coming back via Hanbury Hall, mainly to see the Ridiculous Classical Reception Staircase that @aimeehindsscott.bsky.social told me about a couple of years ago. And it is *ridiculous*, and #puer had a wonderful time spotting which Greek god was which in the ceiling.

Posting about about "Why Don't Things Fall Up" because I want people to read it. I don't think anyone else could have written a book quite like it - it as been described as "a great idea, beautifully executed" Sold for £3 so you know this isn't about the money (I'll make pennies per copy sold).

Are you a provenance researcher with no coding experience but curious about computational techniques? In collaboration with the Getty Provenance Index, we’re launching Coding Provenance, a workshop series specially designed for provenance researchers. Dec 18-21 in Lüneburg Germany.

Gateway at the edge of the empire: looking out from the west gate of Housteads Roman fort towards Hadrian's Wall Incredible to think how many people, from how many different places, have crossed this threshold over the years 🤯 #RomanFortThursday 📷 My own, May 2025

Herne Bay looking good in the sunshine yesterday 🌞

So pleased that we have MA funding available this year for our MA Archaeology & Heritage Programme. Please spread the word (or get in touch if you have questions)! www.bbk.ac.uk/student-serv...

This organza dress from Iris Van Herpen’s couture show yesterday is amazing Video via Vanessa Friedman at the NYT (Twitter handle VVFriedman)

Some Kent countryside from yesterday as a counterpoint to all the grimness I have just been reading

The sprawling lavender on our patio is bee heaven today #TinyJoys

Please help us understand what experts expect from digital reconstructions of ancient color! We're running a short (10 min) anon survey for professionals in archaeology, art history, architecture, conservation/restoration, museums, and digital humanities. 👉 forms.gle/aEhYwGiveiNi... Please Share!

Today has, obviously, been too hot. But Covent Garden was looking particularly beautiful this morning. Hats off to whoever made this display

🚨 CALL FOR POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS ON 'OTTOMAN MOBILITIES AND INTERACTIONS' ⏱ Deadline for applications: 14 July 2025 ➖ The British International Research Institutes (BIRI) invite applications for postdoctoral research fellowships: biaa.ac.uk/grants/postd...

Fancied coffee and walnut cake. Made coffee and walnut cake. Ate a slice #TinyJoys

June 16 deadline #CFP The Ancient Mediterranean and the British Museum: Pasts and Futures - London (Senate House), in person - Feb 25-27, 2026 ics.sas.ac.uk/events/call-...

Making the most of the light June evenings, just went for a walk. I thought the wildflowers on this particular path by the A20 would be looking good, and I was not disappointed

Worried about AI, misinformation or political misuse of archaeological ideas? Work in cultural heritage, museums, archaeology or allied trades? Come and join us in York this December for a session on archaeological integrity!

I also put up a Digital Classics #DigiClass starter pack: go.bsky.app/3ZkX6k2 Find new people to follow, or trust me and follow all!

Today we went for a wander in Tunbridge Wells. Impressed by the Amelia Scott mixed library/museum/archive facility, with attractive open storage area

🏛Just ONE week to go until the BILNAS Summer Lecture & Reception at ‪@britishacademy.bsky.social‬, London, on the illegal trafficking of antiquities in Cyrenaica. – with Louvre researcher Dr Morgan Belzic. 📆 Thursday 12 June at 6.30pm For tickets: bilnas-summer-lecture-reception.eventbrite.co.uk

In today’s #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by @hardeepdhindsa.bsky.social to discuss the relationship between classical culture and imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries. Listen in to find out more about Classics, the Grand Tour, and Invented Legacies here: peoplingthepast.com/2025/06/03/p...

Perfectly beautiful rose, cathedral and castle on a day out to Rochester today

Last year I ended my project about Roman stylus tablets, which was funded by the @gerda-henkel-stiftung.de, early – for my dream job. But before I did, we filmed a series of short videos about the project, and the first episode is now live. (English Version available) ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #ancientbluesky🏺 1/3

Calling all makers resident in Scotland and Northern Ireland! NMS and Ulster Museum are looking for up to 15 makers to create new contemporary work inspired by the Museums’ collections from the Mesolithic to the medieval period, for a new collaborative exhibition. Apply by 31 July!

Things are about to get a bit ancient. I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

Pottering in our little garden just now, there's lots of little bursts of prettiness. Honeysuckle coming into its full glory, rogue love-in-the-mist I never planted, lovely two-toned nemesia, and the pansies and violas just keeping on going

Combined Classics Library Bursaries now open In partnership with the Hellenic Society and the Roman Society, the ICS is offering small grants (up to £300) to assist unfunded scholars to visit the Combined Classics Library in summer 2025. Full details: https://bit.ly/4kL2GP1

Came home to find a copy of this in the post. That feeling of joy when first holding a physical book I’ve worked on never gets stale. Lucy Rose is an amazing artist and the designers at DK have done an awesome job.