Had a great time The Classical Association CA2023 today (my first conference!) - I got to speak about Aristophanes and modern political theory with a lovely panel, consulted a VR oracle, and learned about some fascinating perspectives on Plato! #CA2023

Normalise the pronunciation of 'barbeque' like a Latin vocative with a -que suffix

A new GCSE is in the works for 2025… British Sign Language (BSL)! 🙌 This new qualification will be open to all students who will learn how to use signs and the history of BSL. Find out more ⬇️

Congratulations to A E Stallings Alicia E. Stallings who has just been named the next Oxford Professor of Poetry! Here’s our Chair of the Faculty Board, Prof Marion Turner, making the announcement!

Since I’m slowly starting to believe that this wasn’t an email sent by mistake, an oddly specific scam, or a dream: I’m really pleased to share that I will be starting a DPhil Oxford Classics Outreach in October at Christ Church!

@UCML Yay!!!! Brilliant news!!!! Languages: signed, oral, ancient, modern, natural, constructed😊

*Upturns the bestsellers table in frustration* #HiddenBooksGame National Book Tokens

Brilliant bat poetics yesterday with Professor of Poetry Alicia E. Stallings 🦇

Living the true Classics experience today: when you think you have a thought but some German scholar inconveniently thought all your thoughts in 1864 📖

Brilliant time being a magistra at the readingancientschoolroom.com on Thursday (complete with the proper outfit!) Classics@UnivReading Oxford Classics Outreach

Ten months ago, we launched the Vesuvius Challenge to solve the ancient problem of the Herculaneum Papyri, a library of scrolls that were flash-fried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD. Today we are overjoyed to announce that our crazy project has succeeded. After 2000

“My son’s gone ‘woke’” “Oh no, what happened?” “He’s started studying the Early Modern English grain trade”

Tfw you meet your friend’s crush and he’s a walking red flag #Pompeii

Entries now open for our Creative Writing Competition 2024, in collaboration with our friends at the Ashmolean Museum. Details here - clasoutreach.web.ox.ac.uk/creativewritin… Entries close on Sunday 26 May 2024. Good luck!

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

The discontinuation of the Latin Excellence programme leaves pupils high and dry months before their GCSE exams. Proposed cuts to other language specific schemes are concerning at a time we should invest Darren Paffey MP APPG Modern Languages UCFL @ucflangs.bsky.social The British Academy schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-face-s…

This is a sad news and is particularly tough for students sitting exams in a few months. Classics only becomes elite because governments and policy makers make it that way. Classics for All we will help any state school in the UK with Classics with free training and support.

Had a wonderful first time at the #AIASCS conference