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Reminder that Old English had a word for a tree that gives you joy: wyntrēo, or ‘joy-tree’.

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, wearing the uniform of the Life Hussars Regiment (Leib Husaren Regt Nr 2) as she was their Colonel in Chief. Photographed in 1910.

Wisteria season in Rome

A tile that once decorated the villa of the Roman Emperor Lucius Verus (161-169 AD) on the Via Cassia. Now part of the collections at the Palazzo Altemps in Rome. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #Rome

Next #WCCWiki online #Wikipedia editing session on Friday 25 April 2025, 12.00-14.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/81829924385. Email [email protected] for more information

It's that time of year again... Time to discuss Jesus's vagina in medieval art and religious visions.

The last time the roles of Pope and Archbishop of Canterbury were both vacant at the same time was 333 years ago in 1691.

The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore, or St Mary Major, where Pope Francis will be buried.

#WCCWiki is online now!

The medieval nun and writer Hildegard von Bingen advised any male who had ‘uncontrollable lust’ to sit in a sauna bath with lettuce wrapped around his genitals.

As astonishing Roman marble statue depicting a Julio-Claudian emperor, notable for the remarkable amount of ancient pigment preserved on the ruler's draped crimson cloak. From the theatre of Corinth, c.10-35 AD.

See the latest Australasian Women in Ancient World Studies blog by Tom Hillard on Margaret Hallo Beattie, an inspirational teacher who taught Greek & Roman History & Latin at Macquarie University from 1973 until 1992. awaws.org/history-of-wom… Women's Classical Caucus--US ASCS Macquarie University #WCCWiki Res_Australes: Ancient World Studies, Australasia

Rome has reopened the 19th-century Casina del Salvi as a coffee house, serving its original function, in an archaeological park near the Colosseum. The renovated venue has an outdoor terrace and a study room open to the public for free every day from 09.00 to 19.00.

I am humbled and honored to have received the British Academy’s Global Professorship at the Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford! And very excited about this new chapter in my academic life classics.ox.ac.uk/article/congra…

Please consider signing this petition to retain Bangor University Archives and Special Collections as an essential part of the cultural and intellectual life of Wales: change.org/p/save-your-ar…

Final news of the week: #WCCWiki next Monday!! Mon 19 March, 12.00-14.00 GMT+1. All warmly welcome. Online editing session with Zoom meeting. Join Zoom Meeting us02web.zoom.us/j/81829924385. Email [email protected] for more information

Reminder that #WCCWiki is this afternoon

Harriet recently spent time with award-winning photographer @oliviahemingway who has created our new portrait exhibition 'Visions, Voices, Vocations: Celebrating Women in York Minster'.