mary beard Along the way from Stromness museum, another reminder of different times, too.

some exemplary decolonising has been going on in Stromness Museum, collaborative and sharing. worth a look tinyurl.com/2z338p28

Very chuffed to be reviewed side-by-side with clare mulley in this month's Military History Matters

In just 2 months time Sathnam Sanghera and I will be talking empire and emperors at the Barbican tickets.artist-tix.com/tickets/series… A good meeting.. I hope. Do come along

'I can guarantee that you will never have seen a more complex Neolithic site, or, for that matter, a more massive Neolithic wall' (mary beard) the-tls.co.uk/articles/museu…

If you order a copy of the paperback of my Emperor book by the end of June, you can enter a draw for a weekend in Rome (on the Saturday afternoon we'll go round the Capitoline Museums together, then have dinner) Shd be fun! Details & order info here tinyurl.com/4w3fwcwn

Win a trip to Rome for two, including a stay at a luxury hotel and tour around the Capitoline museums with mary beard, followed by dinner together! Details here: bit.ly/44CS9OU

In just 2 months time Sathnam Sanghera and I will be talking empire and emperors at the Barbican tickets.artist-tix.com/tickets/series… A good meeting.. I hope. Do come along

The Sapphic poet Julia Balbilla is in the spotlight this week thanks to mary beard “Being Roman” Ep 8 on BBC Radio 4. Here’s where I first (1998) tried to set out what could be known. Since then, Patricia Rosenmeyer has explicated the literary aspects scholarship.libraries.rutgers.edu/esploro/output…

2nd episode of new series of Being Roman is Tues at 9.00 BBC Radio 4 & here tinyurl.com/5n94defn Emperor Hadrian's boyfriend Antinous has cameo role, but real hero of our programme is poet Julia Balbilla (whose poems have been found carved into the leg of a statue near Luxor)

I may be a bit dumb, but folks in Cambridge... how are you doing with the new Panther app? It has messed my postcode, it keeps asking me for an OTP (that might be my own bank, but even for the tip??).. I want to use a local company but this is pushing me to Uber.

One for me in St Magnus cathedral, Kirkwall !

This was tremendous 👇👇 My first visit to Neolithic Orkney. Thank you everyuone!

Listen live on BBC Radio 4 at 9.00 on Tuesday or on Sounds👇👇

'For the many' podcast on evening of 15 June, live in Cambridge -- with Iain Dale, Jacqui Smith and little old me. Do come along tinyurl.com/t427e2n8

Fewer than 20 tickets now left for my conversation with Alan Johnson in York on 13 July. Hope to see York friends there fane.co.uk/mary-beard

Last chance to buy tickets for our 2024 Arete Award Gala, Tuesday May 14 in NYC! We are looking forward to honoring mary beard (to be introduced by Dr. Shadi Bartsch!) and Dr. Thomas Sculco, Surgeon-in-Chief Emeritus at the Hospital for Special Surgery. paideiainstitute.org/gala

When you have Professor Dame Mary Beard in your triforium playing the harmonium 😎

We had a lovely visit from Professor Dame Mary Beard yesterday while she is in the county to open the Ness of Brodgar exhibition at Orkney Museum

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#PierArtsCentre #Orkney #archaeology

Do you know about the Cambridge VC who went into the Fitzwilliam in the 1850s and rehung the nudes (to make them less visible? See here 👇