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Classicist at Oxford, currently fully engaged chairing my faculty & coaxing toward publication an annotated text & translation of K.H. Ulrichs’ Latin-language newspaper Alaudae (1889-1895). Blog: https://llewelynmorgan.com. VSIs on Ovid & Horace.
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Ringing endorsement of the subject from David Bowie in 1996 (Telegraph, courtesy of a colleague).

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Tricky family back in the day, the Throckmortons. Best not mess with them www.thetimes.com/uk/society/a...

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This one from my deleted Twitter account got about 9m impressions back in the day so I don't really mind people nicking it for clicks now...

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Very informative piece. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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I have now finished all the things I had to do today. So here are a pair of cormorants on the Thames this morning.

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Two Precious Items Copied by a Sogdian Scribe: blog post by Ursula Sims-Williams, Lead Curator of Persian at the British Library idp.bl.uk/blog/two-pre...

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One of those Saturdays when every one of my teams loses.

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- Did you know Germany is at a crossroads? - No! - It is. (Me for TIME.) time.com/7260451/germ...

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The Entrance Hall of the Regensburg Synagogue 1519 by Albrecht Altdorfer Two Jewish men are shown walking through the entry porch. Altdorfer made this etching just before the synagogue was destroyed #otd Feb 22, 1519 when the city turned on the community.

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This is an excellent speech by the new Chancellor of Oxford University, William Hague. Lots of good jokes, but also a staunch defence of what a university should be. We're going to need a lot of that in the years ahead.

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An article of faith for me is to stand up to bullies. It has caused me trouble throughout my career, and cost me opportunities. But my life is the better for it, and so would the world be, I’m convinced, if it were a principle universally applied.

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Say hi to Mercury, the Roman god of messages and communication, and symbol of the #earlymodern news business. He was supposed to deliver messages and news, but on this very print it looks as if he either was just losing books on purpose or simply stumpled and fell ... So long, crashing #newshistory

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#MosaicMonday - Detail from a fantastic Hercules-themed mosaic from Llíria: ca. 3rd Century AD. His Labours dominate, but the central panel shows the hero with Queen Omphale. #Myth #AncientBluesky 🏺 Image: National Archaeological Museum, Madrid (38315BIS). Link - ceres.mcu.es/pages/Main?i...

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In case it hasn’t been apparent since 2022: Volodymyr Zelensky is the leader of the free world.

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Engagement brooch of Maximilian I of Austria and Mary of Burgundy, 1475. She was born on this day in 1457.

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The Adoration of the Magi, under the thatched canopy of the stable, the three kings clustered together in front of the Virgin and Child. Relief in oak, from an altarpiece. Netherlands, 1520s. (V&A Museum, London)

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If you fancy hearing me talking about my adventures as I travelled along a Roman Road through Scotland, join me for a free illustrated online lecture organised by the Roman Road Research Association on Thursday, 20 Feb 2025 19:30 Book your place here: shorturl.at/hCLPS #RomanFortThursday

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I do approve of all the Latin in Conclave.

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Not, it’s fair to say, the very best day of my life. But very nearly over, so that’s something.

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Don't believe everything you read online. A fake news report that "lost" works of Apollonius of Perga have been newly discovered in Arabic. Actually they were discovered in the 17th century and published again in 1990. #AncientBluesky www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/2025/...

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Book printing. From series of new inventions of modern times, and indeed it was an amazing one! Designed in 1600 by Jan van der Straet aka Stradanus. Today is his day.

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M'learned colleague from Aberdeen here gets it exactly right: the bleak, dark mood of panic on university campuses emanates at root the fact they've lost all sense of their purpose. For me they've lost their *moral* bearings, but other colleagues may differ.

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