Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town

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A gripping account of the twilight of the Roman Republic and its bloody transformation into empire , Tom Holland’s Rubicon is reimagined as a stunning Folio edition. The book that made me a feminist". The Guardian. 16 December 2017. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 6 January 2018.

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Religions of Rome (with John North and Simon Price, 1998); ISBN 0-521-30401-6 (vol. 1), ISBN 0-521-45015-2 (vol. 2) Opening in 1963 New York, to Renaissance Florence, to the birth of theatre in fifth-century Athens, and the Sex Pistols shattering Thatcherite Britain - take your seat for the history of performance. a b c d McCrum, Robert (24 August 2008). "Up Pompeii with the roguish don". The Guardian . Retrieved 29 July 2015.In August 2014, Beard was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in September's referendum on that issue. [102] She was a member of the Labour Party until Tony Blair became leader. [103] In July 2015, Beard endorsed Jeremy Corbyn's campaign in the Labour Party leadership election. She said: "If I were a member of the Labour Party, I would vote for Corbyn. He actually seems to have some ideological commitment, which could get the Labour Party to think about what it actually stands for." [104] For the 12 December 2019 general election, she was a proposer for the successful Cambridge Labour candidate Daniel Zeichner. [105] Books [ edit ]

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Pompeii: one of the most famous volcanic eruptions in history. We know how its victims died, but this film sets out to answer another question - how did they live? Gleaning evidence from an extraordinary find, Cambridge professor and Pompeii expert Mary Beard provides new insight into the lives of the people who lived in the shadow of Mount Vesuvius before its cataclysmic eruption. Mary Beard will be in conversation with Charlotte Higgins at a Guardian Live event at the Shaw Theatre in London on Friday 16 March. Details: theguardian.com/guardianlive Lego model of Cambridge classicist Prof Mary Beard created". BBC News. 27 January 2018 . Retrieved 2 December 2020. a b c d e f "BEARD, Prof (Winifred) Mary". Debrett's People of Today. 2008 . Retrieved 16 July 2008.

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The first adventure in the Folio Society editions of ‘The Magic Faraway Tree’ series, Enid Blyton’s The Enchanted Wood features Jonathan Burton’s enchanting illustrations and a new introduction by Michael Morpurgo.

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The scepticism that defines Beard’s intellectual approach – so clearly on display in Pompeii – was drummed into her early, when she was a student. Her tutor was Joyce Reynolds, who is now 99 years old. “She is probably working in the library right now,” said Beard. Reynolds would say to her: “Do you really know that, Miss Beard? Is that the only way you can interpret the evidence?” Beard, Mary (8 September 2000). "The story of my rape". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 25 April 2019. He'd probably be arrested nowadays but it was wonderful stuff. You had to stand on a chair - the Magic Chair - repeat the spell, "Beware, beware, the magic chair" - and recite poetry. Anything from Eliot to Bob Dylan.' Another volcanic laugh. 'I did so little science it's an embarrassment.' What else did she read? 'Loads of poetry and the novels of Margaret Drabble. You know: How we were going to go to Cambridge, and get pregnant and go into the BBC.' DisobedientBodies explores society’s patriarchal and capitalist beauty standards and calls on us to rebel against them! This is a powerful and inspiring new way of looking at beauty.At 18 she sat the then-compulsory entrance exam and interview for Cambridge University, to win a place at Newnham College, a single-sex college. [7] She had considered King's, but rejected it when she learned the college did not offer scholarships to women. [7]

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Beard is the classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, where she also writes a regular blog, "A Don's Life". [3] [4] Her frequent media appearances and sometimes controversial public statements have led to her being described as "Britain's best-known classicist". [5] The New Yorker characterises her as "learned but accessible". [6] Early life and education [ edit ] Cambridge professor under fire for Boston immigration comments on BBC Question Time". Boston Standard. 21 January 2013. Archived from the original on 11 January 2014 . Retrieved 24 January 2013. I read a lot of this. I carry it everywhere. I really like Mary Beard. But I can't finish it. I'm not sure if it is the repetition of details in a different way time and again or what, because I really did enjoy it and one day I will finish it. I WILL. Pompeii and ancient Greek and Roman culture interest me a lot. For most people, this would be a cautionary tale; for Beard, it was evidence that such battles cannot be shirked. Embedded in her refusal to be silenced, in her endless online engagement, is a kind of optimism: the idealistic, perhaps totally unrealistic, notion that if only we listened to each other, if only we argued more cogently, more tolerantly and with better grace, then we could make public discourse something better than it is.As time has passed, her writing style, compared with the early, careful academic articles, has become more like her spoken voice. The Beard of the first Vestals article of 1980 would never have used, as an epigraph, a quote from a Procol Harum lyric – as did the Beard of the later Vestals paper repudiating her earlier ideas. “I saw eventually that you could write ‘scholarly articles’ in a style that felt right for you and didn’t feel significantly different from the way you wrote a review,” she told me. HowTheTricolorGotItsStripes is a highly entertaining and likeable history of flags by Ukrainian ex-cabinet Minister Dmytro Dubilet and was originally published in Ukrainian 🇺🇦 Confronting the Classics: Traditions, Adventures and Innovations (Profile Books, 2013 / Liveright Publishing, 2013); ISBN 1-78125-048-0 For cost savings, you can change your plan at any time online in the “Settings & Account” section. If you’d like to retain your premium access and save 20%, you can opt to pay annually at the end of the trial.