I found a few photos of a trip I made back in 2016 to Dorset and thought I may as well post them here. Some research trips just don’t turn out quite how you’d expected. You turn up on a exposed hillside near Swanage expecting a bit of carved Lucretius and… Well, let’s not get ahead … Read More
Meet our crack team of C&C Wales advisors. This photo was taken after our workshop at Swansea University Department of Classics. Over a heady mix of chips, coffee and sandwiches, we talked about avenues of research for the Welsh limb of our C&C project. From the excellent Swansea Classics and History Department we had Ceri … Read More
It all started with Edith’s encounter asking ‘What did Tom Paine really think about the Greek and Roman classics?’Since then at C&C we’ve been haunted by the ghost of Old Tom Paine. On Monday we even found ourselves looking down at the desk upon which he wrote his earth-shaking political pamphlet ‘The Rights of Man’ (1791). Beneath … Read More
More densely populated than the last, this team photo contains classicists from all over Continental Europe, Russia, North America and UK. I’m in it, but I won’t say where. Last weekend – when Edith was in Lublin “upset[ting] devout Poles” – I was in Ljubljana, Slovenia, at an international symposium called: Classics and Class: Teaching … Read More
Look at this photo. You’ll have to fill it out with your imagination. It could sadly never have been taken. In the middle is the clean-cut Borut Pahor, rumoured to have modelled his way through a political science degree at Ljubljana University. He is now the President of the Republic of Slovenia. On his right … Read More
This year’s Spring has finally sprung and the C&C archive now holds a grand total of 40 classical encounters from all over the world and covering no fewer than four centuries. Get your digital pith helmet on and dive back in time through the C&C store! Edith has been unearthing all sorts of class-conscious encounters … Read More
Welcome to Classics and Class. Today the website goes live! C&C is an AHRC-funded project based at King’s College, London, and led by Edith Hall. Its primary aim is to present and amplify the lost voices of British working-class men and women who engaged with ancient Greek and Roman culture throughout the period between the French … Read More