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  • 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

  • Re-reading these childish things

    Again and it seems I’m writing anything but my thesis. Although that’s not quite true – I’ve about double the amount of words I’m allowed for the upgrade hurdle that all PhD candidates must clear to get from MPhil to PhD status.* Until I can sort this out I find I’m bursting with wanting to… Read more

  • A jocular and political tale in which a blogger may be digressing out of her depth

    As I continue to study for a doctorate, I’m uncomfortably aware of how little I know about most things outside my field. So much so that it feels almost wrong to stray away from my subject and write about three stories that have become national news: a Labour MP who disrespected a working-class man; a… Read more