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  • Good days

    I’ve had a spate of good days and am hoping that these continue. This means that last week I was able to give a talk – the first in a year. It was for the Banbury Historical Society and proved to be a really good way of getting back into my PhD. Although doing it… Read more

  • Re. starting this blog

    It’s four years since I last wrote this blog. A lot has happened in those four years and I wanted to get back to blog writing. But one of those things was serious illness* last year – serious to me, in that it’s chronic, and odds-on permanent, even if it will probably not kill me.… Read more

  • Experimental epigraphy: the Greenwich inscription revisited

    Life and PhD and general priorities have interrupted plans to go and properly record the Greenwich riverwall inscription – I’m now thinking that RTI might be the best way to go, although the wooden brace in front of part of the text is somewhat inconvenient, and it also means acquiring some kit. With news that… Read more

  • An original Oresteia?

    A peculiarity in staging classical tragedies is that they are too frequently judged by how close the performance is to how it would have (supposedly) been in antiquity. The risk is that this critique consigns these works to connoisseurship, or encourages lifeless museum pieces, and leads to reviews describing “daring” productions that “take us as… Read more

  • Gathering Momentum

    Originally posted on HARN Weblog: [Just as a by the way, I was going to call this post ‘snowballing’ but on checking the spelling I discovered that while I think of snowballing as meaning either throwing snow around or corporate speak for increasing speed and mass there’s a section of the interwebs that think of… Read more

  • ‘Experimental epigraphy’ at Greenwich riverwall

    There’s an especially fun-sounding area of archaeology termed ‘experimental‘, which pretty much means actually trying things out to see if your ideas about how things might have worked might actually be right. I don’t get to play though, as my PhD research uses epigraphy (I’m looking at some particular Roman inscriptions  to learn about the people who had them… Read more