We are delighted to be able to launch our short film on the Advocating Classics Education project, produced in collaboration with Big Face Art. The film highlights our campaign to expand access to the study of the ancient world, and features young people describing their own experiences of studying Classics. It features Prof Edith Hall [...]
Dr Peter Liddel, University of Manchester Hundreds of thousands of inscriptions on stone survive from the ancient Greek world and some 20,000 from Athens alone. They include simple labels and name-tags, public and private monuments to the dead, dedications, and official documents of varying length and detail. A name-tag with the name Timodemides inscribed [...]
We have secured AHRC Follow-on Funding for phase three of the ACE project. In this phase, Dr Holmes-Henderson will act as Principal Investigator and will lead a team of academics, museum curators, outreach co-ordinators and exams professionals on the project ‘Improving access to Classical Studies in museums and schools’. Our new partners include OCR exam [...]
By Lawrence McNally, Teacher of Classics at Impington Village College, Cambridge Over the winter break I decided to take on the task of creating a student workbook for the Greek Religion module for OCR’s A Level in Classical Civilisation. This should hopefully save a lot of time planning throughout the year as I have updated [...]
A journey to Classics teaching by Jack Oliver After a fifteen year weightlifting career, I needed a change. I loved my time in weightlifting. I was able to travel the world, compete at the London Olympic Games in 2012 and win a Commonwealth silver medal. However, after more and more struggles against my own body, [...]
By Natalie Haynes A few months ago, I wrote an adaptation of an Ovid poem (Hypsipyle, from the Heroines) to be performed onstage at Jermyn St Theatre. They had invited fifteen women to adapt fifteen poems and it was an amazing project to be involved in - the plays should be available for students [...]
By David Whitney, Teacher and Writer, Delphi Philosophy One day after school, one of the grandparents of a girl in my class called me over to look at something on his phone. It was a photo of the girl at home, reading with every sign of enjoyment and concentration, an enormous book about Socrates. She [...]
By Dr Philippa Steele, Senior Research Fellow in Classics at the University of Cambridge and Principal Investigator of the ‘Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems’ project The CREWS project at Cambridge University (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems, based at the Faculty of Classics) is pleased to announce the release of [...]
OCR have announced changes to the Ancient History GCSE syllabus in response to the disruption caused by coronavirus. Students will now be examined on both period studies (The Persian Empire, the Foundations of Rome), and a single depth study (from a choice of six). Each period study will account for 36.4% of the overall [...]
The University of Nottingham, an ACE Partner, is offering a new suite of outreach lectures for schools delivered by leading academics from the Department of Classics and Archaeology. Designed to be fully flexible, they can be delivered online or in-person, depending on individual circumstances. Duration and content will be adapted for each school. There [...]