So I am running the London Lea Valley 50km in March and trying to raise some money for Step Forward - a youth centre in Tower Hamlets, Kiddo attends their LGBTQIA+ group and it's been such a brilliant and supportive space for them, which feels so important when trans youth are under constant attack.

I'm in Copenhagen for a conference and it is LOVELY 😍

I vehemently object to Christmas starting the moment bonfire night is over, but I have to admit that the Christmas lights around Seven Dials do enormously cheer up my evening walk to the station

Next time you visit the Pre-Raphaelite galleries at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, keep an eye out for more information about my project, Victorian Art & Design and the Global! More information available at: www.birminghammuseums.org.uk/about/what-w...

Just added to my Etsy shop: 🌿final small print run of my '26 calendars 🪶my handmade recycled silver jewellery designs (incl intricate casts of real flowers) 🌸limited ed'n mounted art prints of my photos 💐tiny posy mental health kits Last orders for📮 in time for🌲: 19 Nov www.etsy.com/uk/shop/silv...

Couple of days leave this week while my daughter's off for half term. Today was a visit to Fashion and Textile Museum to see the "Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop" exhibition. Lots of familiar outfits for me to get excited about and good inspiration for daughter's GCSE textiles

Call for Papers: “Civilizing” the World: Classicism, Neo-Classical Sculpture, and Plaster Casts in the Service of Imperial Powers and Post-Colonial Elites (1780-1945) Papers deadline: 1 December 2025 Conference dates: 22 - 23 October 2026 Full details here: ics.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Revisiting the Ancient Mediterranean World at the British Museum: Nature, the Environment, & Culture 4–6.30pm, Weds 5 Nov In-person at Senate House Full details and registration here: shorturl.at/h76mr 1/2

I've missed many days of #classicstober but I couldn't miss day 21 and Cerberus. Very rough and ready sketch, but I always think this bronze looks like such a good obedient little hellhound

I wrote about what Latin can teach us about toxic nostalgia and the anxieties of the powerful. Thank you @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing. I’m sure many of you might be interested. #STS #HPS #HistSci www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

A week today! - Our first research seminar of the year with Dr Simon Glenn on ‘The Bactrian Mirage: coins and history in Hellenistic Central Asia’ on 16 October, 17:15-18:30 UK time. More details in the thread below. Please note the change of on campus venue to Michael Sadler 1.01. All welcome!

Day 7 of #classicstober and the theme is witch/sorceress. Pressed for time today so here is a 16th-century drawing showing Circe with Odysseus plus crew members transformed into pigs @classicstober.bsky.social #classicstober25 drawing | British Museum share.google/w117nan5PeNJ...

Day 6 of #classicstober and the theme is the Fates (moirai). Here's my quick rendition of the fabulous Fates from Disney's Hercules (a bit of a blend with the Graiai of day 3) #classicstober25 @classicstober.bsky.social

Day 5 of #classicstober and another drawing of a British Museum object for the theme of Hermes Psychopompos: part of a column from Ephesus. Full object details below ##classicstober25 @classicstober.bsky.social

Another Sunday walk in the Kent countryside today. This week I persuaded my daughter to join me, by bribing her with a tea shop visit at the end

Day 4 of #classicstober and no chance to make art today so just sharing an object, or rather a lot of tiny objects! Beads found in a tomb in Vulci, which may have decorated a shroud (today's theme) #classicstober25 @classicstober.bsky.social

Reminder: Regional Conference Grants - next deadline for applications is 1 November 2025 The Hellenic Society Council considers applications from Universities for a grant to assist an academic event in the field of Hellenic Studies. www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/grants #ClassicsBluesky 🏺

Day 3 of #classicstober and I have branched out into photo art. Inspired by the Graiai in Clash of the Titans, recreated using my face and an old paperweight of my husband's. Photo taken by my bewildered 11 year old son @classicstober.bsky.social #classicstober25

Day 2 of #classicstober #classicstober25 and the theme is Thanatos: death. Here he is on a lekythos, gently carrying a warrior from the battlefield. Object link in the reply. @classicstober.bsky.social

This is coming up soon! Free lecture and reception, on Friday 10th October. There are still places left - please come along and/or pass onto your networks

Come work with us!🏺 Together with my brilliant colleague Georgia Barker we are looking for a project curator to research how childhood is represented in the collections of our two departments at the British Museum, Egypt & Sudan and Greece & Rome. 👇👇👇 bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com//templates/C...

Day 1 #classicstober #classicstober25 Hypnos. Very quick sketch before bed. Proportions all wrong but am resolved to post whatever I manage to achieve each day. Some days that will be nothing! @classicstober.bsky.social

Lovely sunny afternoon yesterday for a walk across the big field. It's been a while since I did this walk. Trying to get back into routine of a countryside walk every weekend as it does me a lot of good

#PhD fellowship within the DECADOCS network: ‘Decadent Travellers and the Reception of Classical Antiquity in the Nineteenth Century’ decadocs.blog/research-pro...

#ClassicsTober prompts for October ‘25 #ClassicsTober25

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...

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...