With no spoilers I LOVED the Celebrity Traitors final.

I wrote about Roman curse tablets in Ancient History Magazine - available now! www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/produc...

🎉 Congratulations to Prof. Polly Low, who has provided the introduction and notes to Robin Waterfield's recently published new translation of Thucydides! 🔗 tinyurl.com/826xpz6n 🔊 Listen to Polly and Robin on the 'Wondery' podcast: tinyurl.com/3xp738a3

Caught up with a friend I hadn’t seen for around 15 years over dinner today and it was fabulous. Major #TinyJoy

This jar stands at an impressive height of 75 cm. The painted decoration depicts an octopus, swimming in an abstract seascape. The jar comes from the Minoan palace at Knossos, on the island of Crete, and was created in the 15th century BCE.

The house is lovely just to visit and the events are wonderful. I went to the gin tasting and Georgian history talk last night and it was terrific. Would recommend!

Enjoying an afternoon with Plutarch today

Here's your annual reminder: whether you received A-level results today, years ago, or never, there's space for you at the @openuniversity.bsky.social!

If you're out in Verulamium Park this summer look out for the 'Tread the Past' trail. At each of the 8 stops scan the QR code to discover the history under your feet 👣 https://www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/tread-past?utm_source=bsky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=bsky_post

Really enjoyed seeing this today. Thanks for chatting with us when we visited.

Oxford looking good this morning

Loved discovering this today #tinyjoys

Today I celebrated my PhD at the Barbican with the rest of the #OUfamily. It was an incredibly joyful atmosphere. Thanks for being there @emmabridges.bsky.social and thanks to @eltonteb.bsky.social and Eleanor Betts, my other fantastic supervisors, and @ougradsch.bsky.social for the opportunities.

Because I'm updating them today, I'd like to remind #AncientBluesky that we have *FREELY ACCESSIBLE* Ancient Greek resources at the Open University! 🏺 First, we have a 16 hour free OpenLearn course, which takes you from learning the alphabet to reading simple sentences: www.open.edu/openlearn/hi...

Triple checking my chapter proofs this evening so Thucydides is back out on the table. It’s my first post PhD thing and I had forgotten that feeling before pressing ‘send’ on the final version of something.

Handily OUP are offering a hefty discount on my book Warriors' Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience as part of their #AIASCS promotion so you can currently get it for £15 (or $21 in the US) global.oup.com/academic/pro...

My article in the FT on state school Classics. It’s not all bad news! Article here: www.ft.com/content/8b93...