✨ICYMI✨ We have released a textbook for National 5 Classical Studies, the first book of its kind, and it’s FREE to download. Please share! www.workingclassicists.com/national-5-c...

Giving our latest Zine article another push here because it is absolutely great. Get your eyes on it tout suite! www.workingclassicists.com/zine/eleusis...

I believe @rikworth.bsky.social wrote this thinking it'd make for a quick double page spread, but my inner kid started to fixate on it and it ended up taking me twice as much time.

✨NEW ARTICLE ✨ Ever wondered what happened to Eleusis, town of mystery and mysteries? Neil Middleton has had a look at the town today, and the art its history has inspired. www.workingclassicists.com/zine/eleusis...

The first Scottish textbook in 20 years: Guide to National 5 Classical Studies ##AncientBluesky ⚱️🦋

Excellent work

✨ We are SO delighted to release our guide to National 5 Classical Studies. ✨ It's completely free (unless you'd like to make a donation) and is the first Classics textbook written for the Scottish education system in two generations! ✊⚡ www.workingclassicists.com/national-5-c...

I finished writing this tonight. It’s a textbook for National 5 Classical Studies, the first of its kind. I’m not sure but I think the last Scotland-specific Classics textbook for schools came out in 1983. Anyway, it’s 220 pages long and will be available for free/donation from tomorrow.

Students in Gaza are still studying, and right now are taking their exams—and YOU can help them do that! The youth volunteers behind Spark Space are providing electricity for these electronic exams. Help cover the electricity costs! FINAL 4 HOURS—231/350 chuffed.org/project/spar...

George has been working SO hard on this. There hasn’t ever been a textbook for National 5 Classical Studies, let alone one that is freely available and accessible. So proud of him, and this, and Working Classicists in general. 🥹

We've been busy with this for a while but it's very close to launch 👀

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Check out some of @contubernales.bsky.social offerings, as suggested by our book reviewer!

Looking for recommendations... I want to do some reading on infanticide in antiquity - exposure, sacrifice, and abortion /murder of infants. Any book recommendations? @theclassicslibrary.bsky.social @workingclassicists.bsky.social @chrissieplastow.bsky.social @corabeth.bsky.social

One of the key points I make in "Heritage and Healing in Syria and Iraq" is about the roles and ethical responsibilities of archaeological and heritage organisations in conflict areas. In the following skeets is the text of my acceptance speech 1/n

✨Pre-orders of You Are Odysseus are now open! ✨ Search for it wherever you order your books! (My favourite links are up in a mailing list post on my personal site.)

Don’t forget we have a conference coming up - a good place to present work that is explicitly pro-Palestine, anti-occupation and anti-colonial more generally - especially if you are tired of the apathy of existing subject organisations! 🍉 For more details: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Why do we need a new Society for the Study of the Past? The brilliant George Connor of @workingclassicists.bsky.social explains!

This is excellent! All great advice & information. We tried a lot of this at the Our Voices in Classics conference at Columbia back in Feb of 2020. We didn’t get everything right, but I like to think we helped show what was possible. Thank you @workingclassicists.bsky.social for doing this work! ❤️

New book! Φερδινάνδος ὁ Ταῦρος: An Ancient Greek Version of The Story of Ferdinand. 🐂 contubernalesbooks.com/ferdinand-th...

SWAG! Thank you @workingclassicists.bsky.social 🙏🏻 I will treasure these 🥰

This is a fantastic guide and well worth a read!

ICYMI: I won the Creative Classicist award for my work on The Afrodyssey. bsky.app/profile/work...

we would be in a much better state in this country if we stopped focusing on anointing a chosen few working class students into Oxbridge, and instead properly funded all the different sorts of universities that attract students from a wide range of backgrounds already

Absolutely get your eyes on this! Great work. 👀

Seriously, We Transfer has just said they'll scrape anything you send through them for AI.

I wish there had been something like this when I began going to conferences! Brilliant work as usual.

This is a great set of recommendations and I can guarantee that the Accessibility and Diversity Committees for Feminism & Classics 2026 will be looking closely at them!

I also make some recommendations about inclusivity at conferences/events in this article (free to read and download). Many of these overlap with those from @workingclassicists.bsky.social , so meeting these needs is even simpler & easier for event organisers: traj.openlibhums.org/article/id/4...

This is something we've been working on for a long time and its great to finally put it out there. Although we are primarily concerned with access to Classics-related events, there's plenty in here more generally for providing access for working class people to events in any industry. 👇

Read it. Use it!

After announcing it at the Classical Association Conference over the weekend, today we launch our Working Classicists Guide to Event Accessibility. In it, we suggest ways to equalise access and eliminate anxieties around event attendance. Read more: www.workingclassicists.com/zine/working...

We need to see the law changed, so that employers and workers know when action must be taken to keep workers cooler and safer. Add your name. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/we...

We love to see it!

Some photos from our panel today! Thanks so much to Jordan, Alex, and Sam for their wonderfully engaging papers! And to everyone who came to listen and speak to us ☺️ If you dropped us a business card we’ll be in touch next week 📧

We’re on our way to St Andrews for the CA Conference! Looks like it’s going to be a beautiful day 🌞

✨ Come and see us tomorrow at the Classical Association Conference 2025! #ancientsky #classicssky Here’s some more info on our panel:

"If you want to understand why the west hates Persia, first you must understand why it worships Greece." A really sound look at the weaponisation of racist history. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej4b...

I have a list of hundreds of reasons why private schools should be abolished and are a detriment to society, spanning a range of diverse political and social issues but I fear this leaflet goes right to the top of the list.

This seems to have resonated on here too (I cannot tell you how happy this makes me) so I'll add some of the reasoning: I asked a lot of friends & family who are not academics (often not readers of non-fiction what they would do if they wanted to know more about a topic they were interested in). 🧵

Whoop... got an amazing parcel of goodies from @workingclassicists.bsky.social ... thank you so much!!!

Our emergency meeting was a beautiful, and powerful, success. We've recorded it so watch out Everyday Orientalism's post on the event for the recording 💚 and make sure to join the @socstudyofthepast.bsky.social (it's free!) everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/07/03/a...

On today’s #PeoplingPodcast, we are joined by @zenakamash.bsky.social to discuss her work with Iraqi communities and how she uses craftwork to bring the public together with cultural heritage and to foster wellbeing: peoplingthepast.com/2025/07/08/p...

Oh yeah, it’s our 4th birthday today! Very grateful for all the support and love over the years - we couldn’t do any of it without you all 🥳

Who is going to the Classical Association Conference on the weekend in St Andrews? We’ll both be there on Saturday (11.30am, Younger Hall, Room 4), hosting a panel about - you guessed it - working class opportunities in Classics and class as accessibility. Would be lovely to meet some of you!

Online version of my book will be available July 23rd, just three weeks away!

If you’ve not given this demo a go, you really should!

After the circus in the study of the ancient world this week a few people have been asking what I think a better discipline would look like. 🤓 This completely open-access book, written by what Professor Pomeroy calls my “cabal” (aka our research collective) has some ideas: tinyurl.com/cawsbook

Thank you to @workingclassicists.bsky.social for awarding @aothenmagazine.bsky.social with the community classicist award! To receive recognition like this is both encouraging and energising. Thank you. And thank you Samantha 🌹.

I can finally talk about it WHEEEEEE Thank you to everyone who nominated me!!!