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Edith Hall (KCL) and Henry Stead (St Andrews) in conversation about their book, A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 (2020).

A digital Q&A with Edith Hall and Henry Stead about the publication of their new book ‘A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 … Read More

As part of the 2015 Gaisford Lecture at University of Oxford, Prof. Edith Hall (KCL) takes the opportunity to champion the subject of Classical Civilisation. “Greek is now a pedagogical … Read More

Prof. Sara Monoson talks to Henry Stead about the American graphic artist Hugo Gellert and two of his illustrated books in which he turns to the ancient Greek and Roman … Read More

Edith and Henry take a trip to Wakefield to examine the relationship between classical culture and coal mining in West Yorkshire. Discover more: National Coal Mining Museum for England Nostell … Read More

At the first London workshop of ‘Classics in Communities’ Zanna Wing-Davey (Executive Director of The Latin Programme, Via Facilis) and Emily Pillinger (King’s College London) talk to Henry Stead about … Read More

Christopher Pelling, Regius Professor of Classics at the University of Oxford, speaks to Henry Stead about social division in Plutarch’s and Shakespeare’s Coriolanus. The video was filmed in University of … Read More

Evelien Bracke, Mai Musie and Lorna Robinson launch ‘Classics in Communities’. The University of Oxford, the Iris Project, and Swansea University are delighted to announce an exciting new project which … Read More

Dr Lorna Robinson (Iris & EOCCC) tells us about the newly opened East Oxford Community Classics Centre at Cheney School, Oxford. We attended the launch of this wonderful new centre … Read More

Dr. Anthony Ellis joins Henry Stead in his search for the world famous Victorian strongman Eugen Sandow. They visit his London town house house in Holland Park, his final resting … Read More