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Looking forward to be in London next week for this event BILNAS🏺📜📚🇱🇾 with amazing
Josephine Quinn & Cori Fenwick, to discuss David Mattingly's groundbreaking new book. Come along if you are around! bilnas.org/event/between-…

Come hang out with me and mary beard at Jaipur on Thames British Library jaipurlitfest

Well hello Denmark

In this week's The TLS , you can read Emily Gowers on a Life of Virgil tinyurl.com/5h49ar3w Don't miss it!

The atrocity in Rafah, like atrocity after atrocity already committed in Gaza, is indefensible. The footage is so horrifying that I struggle for words. Leaders of Western states who declared Rafah a red line: where is your spine? Your conscience? Action is long past overdue.

This was so much fun: thanks Steph Merritt/S J Parris and Hay Festival!

Enjoyed coffee talking to students at their Gaza protest camp this morning, then some ginger honey at Jewish cultural fair nearby. Tour groups circulating, rowers buying panadol, students preparing exams.

Contrary to view in parts of media, Oxford is not tearing itself apart.

I have had the great privilege of reading Carol Atack's new book on Plato and let me tell you it is a TREAT. Everything you need to know about Plato himself, about Socrates, and about Classical Athens, and still a page-turner! I didn't even mind the philosophy.

Prehistoric maritime trade routes for #NationalMaritimeDay ⛵
Artefacts from Early Bronze Age Kalba show influence from both Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley, indicating exchange across the Gulf of Oman as early as 4500 years ago.

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historically, men in this situation used a folding canopy called an umbrella

The tragic irony of this appalling act won’t be lost on the readers of my #Burningthebooks

Brilliant news from home.

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On a train to Paddington and multiple people in this carriage are having FaceTime conversations from their seats, full volume both sides. Trying to work out how exactly to blame the Tories.

A win for the weirdos who think that HE institutions have no business investing in arms companies (attn William Dalrymple)

Join us for an eye-opening discussion with Josephine Quinn, as she challenges the traditional narrative of Western civilization with Nick Spencer of the Reading Our Times podcast.

Prepare to rethink everything you thought you knew about the history of the West.

Theos Think Tank

Woo-hoo! JLF International London! Cannot wait for June and a weekend of books and fun at the British Library

Thanks mary beard: this was a lovely surprise, and so glad to be sharing the stage @thetls with @digikabri and his splendid tome.

Jericho from the roof of the new Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities #topping out

I didn’t share this because I was waiting for American Academy of Arts & Sciences to realize their mistake. I am astonished and humbled by this enormous honor.

Candida Moss elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences birmingham.ac.uk/news/2024/cand… via Uni of Birmingham ISAW NYU Little, Brown and Co