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The story of a tweet 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
A few days ago I spotted one of the new M&S ads, with Helen Mirren, Tracey Emin et al. I thought it was interesting and a bit funny, especially given the clientele of M&S (to judge from my local branc...
A Season in the Congo at the Young Vic 20 Aug 2013 | 02:30 pm
I think that it was only about ten years ago that I quite caught up with what happened to Patrice Lumumba, who was the first Prime Minister of independent Congo, after the Belgians had been more or le...
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Latin – The Big Debate at British Museum donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com 16 Jun 2013 | 07:04 am
The venerable Mary Beard, whom I love, not only for her books but also her television programmes, and the fact that all that bullshit about presenters having to be groomed clones, is beneath her, invi...
Was Caligula as mad and bad as he's portrayed? The jury's still out. dougsbookblog.blogspot.com 30 Jul 2013 | 01:43 pm
The excellent and entertaining historian Mary Beard's BBC 2 documentary on the bad (possibly), but not necessarily mad Roman Emperor Caligula was great TV, despite the paucity of evidence available to...
Ancient Rome Comes to London – Catch It While You Can 59steps.wordpress.com 9 Aug 2013 | 05:38 pm
There is nowhere like Pompeii and Herculaneum. Mary Beard, one of the subjects of my last post, who has done much in recent years to educate us about the two Roman towns buried under a cataclysmic vol...
What can you do about Internet Trolls? ifalife.com 31 Jul 2013 | 01:22 pm
Professor Mary Beard from the University of Cambridge put former public schoolboy Oliver Rawlings firmly in his place after he abused her on Twitter. He triggered a war of words after Tweeting that sh...
Review – Cybersexism by Laurie Penny socialistunity.com 27 Aug 2013 | 02:04 pm
Misogyny. No other word can capture the avalanche of abuse that was heaped upon Caroline Criado-Perez, Stella Creasy, Mary Beard and other women just under a month ago. It was frightening and disturbi...
Mary Beard’s always worth reading… philobiblon.co.uk 13 May 2013 | 03:17 am
A shorter version was originally published on Blogcritics Mary Beard is pretty well public intellectual of the year, after her spirited performance on Question Time, and strong-minded reaction to the ...
Twitter turns on itself as bomb threat victim Mary Beard criticised for breaking boycott tfa.net 5 Aug 2013 | 04:19 am
Freedom of Speech Abuse row continues to blight social network as day-long silence descends into arguments – The Independent GCHQ Data Row Phone firms reject GCHQ data claims – The Daily Express Fra...
Mary Beard outs Oliver Eric Rawlings over Twitter abuse madamearcati.blogspot.com 29 Jul 2013 | 11:04 pm
Cambridge classicist Mary Beard has once again been trolled on Twitter - this time by some bearded twat called Oliver Eric Rawlings. He looks the sort of man who scratches his scrotal sac in public pl...
Ancient History on TV jostamon.blogspot.com 7 Aug 2013 | 04:56 pm
There's been a veritable spate of TV programmes on Ancient Rome lately. Just a week or so ago was Caligula by the lovely Mary Beard. This overlapped historically (and a little bit thematically) with C...
Cambridge Legend Mary Beard Faces Twitter Bomb Threats cambridgetab.co.uk 6 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm
Cambridge Fellow Mary Beard received multiple bomb threats through Twitter after speaking out against violent threats made towards women on the social media site. These threats came just hours after ...
