Podcast on Chatham High Street made me think of you, @bandages.bsky.social! youtube.com/watch?v=NO2r...

Rather excited to be going to Gloucester today for the #GloucesterHistoryFestival with talks today and tomorrow.

On my way to Bath to see @nataliehaynes.bsky.social

Given the news about Melvyn Bragg stepping down from In Our Time, now might be a good time to share this list (thanks to Paul Cartledge for the reminder!) keenerclassics.wordpress.com/classics-in-...

“auferre, trucidare, rapere, falsis nominibus imperium, atque, ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.” - Tacitus www.bbc.com/news/article...

New podcast from two women with a shared intellectual project: classics from the ancient world to now…theatre, architecture, history, film, you name it

An excellent @coriniummuseum.bsky.social beer!

We have come to Dunham Massey with family. Beautiful day and wonderful gardens. Getting peckish. Do they do scones @nationaltrust.org.uk?! 😂

Just booked tickets for Gloucester History Festival in September: Lyse Doucet, cider tasting, Islam Issa, @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social, @gregjenner.bsky.social, and @davidolusoga.bsky.social! 20-21 Sep. www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/autumn-2025/

What perfect album came out when you were 16? These were four of my favourites at the time.

Very exciting news: pre-order is available for You Are Odysseus by @lejenksbrown.bsky.social (aka @greekmythcomix.bsky.social). www.waterstones.com/book/you-are... You Are Odysseus by L Jenkinson-Brown, Homer | Waterstones

A quick classical crossword. keenerclassics.wordpress.com/2025/07/20/k...

Sri Lanka keenerclassics.wordpress.com/2025/07/19/s...

Quote with a picture of you from the 80s.

Arrived back in Bristol after a lovely #CA2025 in St Andrews. Some great inspiring talks, brilliant people to talk to, and a lot of fun in a beautiful location! Here’s to Manchester #CA2026 next April!

Off to the CA conference on Friday in St Andrew’s! Presenting a paper on our new Y7 Classics curriculum (cuneiform, Egyptian, Greek, Latin).

A puzzle for you. Four groups of four. Carey, Chain, Foot, Furlong, Kandinsky, Mondrian, Moore, Pole, Pollock, Popper, Rawls, Rothko, Runcie, Russell, Welby, Williams

What's a book — or series of books — that you loved as a kid that almost nobody seems to read or even remember nowadays?

Bristol Latin Play Competition was a great success on Thursday. Congrats to winners Sefton Park (juniors) and Royal High School Bath (seniors). Next for me: going to St Andrews for the CA conference to talk about teaching cuneiform to 11 year olds!

Huge Roman 'jigsaw' reveals 2,000-year-old wall paintings www.bbc.com/news/article...

Four magnificent Ganapati / Ganesh figures from the Ancient India exhibition at the British Museum

Went to the @britishmuseum.bsky.social at the weekend and had a look at the room that was closed the last two times I was there! #Theseuskylix #AthenaNike

Looking forward to trying this out! 😋

Spent the afternoon cataloguing some old Greece and Rome volumes. And when I say old…

"The people finding these things, it can make their year just to pull something out of the ground." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Over the past few months I’ve been continuing our BGS Classics podcast by inviting special guests to speak with us. First was poet and English teacher David Briggs, who has written a book called The Odyssey Complex: open.spotify.com/episode/7851...

Just amused myself by thinking of what "of this ballet skirt" would be in Classical Greek...! 😀 τουτου του τυτυ (toutou tou tutu)

The verdict is in! Iliad and Ichor have both earned The Dice Tower Seal of Excellence! ⚡

My list of classical In Our Time podcasts has been updated, with the brilliant programme on the Gracchi added: keenerclassics.wordpress.com/classics-in-...

The latest episode of the BGS Classics podcast: Charlie Pearson on the Persian Wars, the Crusades, and the role of conflict in shaping cultural identity. www.buzzsprout.com/869239/episo...

‘At 60, the bulk of your life is lived. What’s left now?’ Ralph Fiennes and Uberto Pasolini on their ripped and radical take on The Odyssey www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ma...

In the latest episode of the BGS Classics podcast, we are joined by Colin Wadey, BGS Philosophy and Ethics teacher, to talk about myth and religion, from Classical Greece to the New Testament and beyond! www.buzzsprout.com/869239/episo...

In Our Time classics podcasts page now updated to include the one on #Cyrus the Great: keenerclassics.wordpress.com/classics-in-...

In the latest episode of the BGS Classics podcast, we are joined by Eva Yemenakis, BGS English teacher, to talk about Sappho, Ovid, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare and lots more! www.buzzsprout.com/869239/episo...

Another episode, but this time with a special guest: David Briggs, who speaks about his poetry collection The Odyssey Complex, discussing themes of xenia, storge, enantiodromia, nostos, and identity. There's also an opportunity to hear David reading his poetry. www.buzzsprout.com/869239/episo...

Great day ahead: recording a podcast on the Odyssey with poet and author of The Odyssey Complex, Dr David Briggs; then Bristol quizbowl final at QEH; then Bristol Classical Association talk by Shaun Tougher about eunuchs.

Going round the Roman Baths in Bath. Never listened to the “kids” audio guide before. It’s @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social! Brilliant. Love it.

Amazing effort by one of our Year 10s today for World Book Day!

😮 🧠 Man's brain turned to glass by hot #Vesuvius ash cloud www.bbc.com/news/article...

The BGS Classics Podcast now has episodes on: 1. GCSE Class Civ: Myth and Religion 2. GCSE Class Civ: Homeric World 3. A level Class Civ: Invention of the Barbarian 4. A level Class Civ: Love and Relationships Available wherever you get your podcasts! Search BGS Classics classcivgcse.buzzsprout.com

Archaeologists may have found pharaoh's second tomb www.bbc.com/news/article...

First pharaoh's tomb found in Egypt since Tutankhamun's www.bbc.com/news/article...

Thankfully, the child did not pop fully formed out of her head, like its namesake…: “Princess Beatrice gives birth to second baby, named Athena” www.bbc.com/news/article...

The King has vetoed the naming of a new submarine “Agincourt” it seems, to avoid offending French people, instead opting for “Achilles”. What about the Trojans?!

The latest In Our Time podcast: a list of discussion points, including the Beverage Report… keenerclassics.wordpress.com/2025/01/27/c...

Hi Simon. I thought you might like to know I’ve brought this project up to date: feelinglistless.blogspot.com/2022/02/cata...

I’ve updated my Classics In Our Time page to include Thursday’s episode on Socrates in Prison (Crito and Phaedo) - with Angie Hobbs, Fiona Leigh, and James Warren (23 January 2025) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Archaeologists in #Pompeii have discovered a sumptuous private bathhouse - potentially the largest ever found there - complete with hot, warm and cold rooms, exquisite artwork, and a huge plunge pool. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

At the cinema to see A Complete Unknown (the Bob Dylan movie with Timothy Chalamet). Great opportunity to bring out this cartoon.

Two new BGS Classics Podcast episodes have landed, on Greek Identity and Greek (Dis)Unity - especially for those studying A Level Classical Civilisation (the Invention of the Barbarian component)... Available on all the usual podcast media, and also in the next couple of posts: