I'm Cora Beth and this is my personal website, set up to entertain my Classics students at The Open University. Other visitors are very welcome too! You'll find archived articles in the Library, and resources on the Subject Pages. You can 'follow' this website for weekly ramblings delivered to your inbox.
Dr Cora Beth Knowles
This week I managed to contrive a child-free morning to visit the Hancock Museum in Newcastle. (Its name these days, of course, is The Great North Museum: but I’ve been visiting it since I was a kid, and the new name may never stick in my head.) I should add that I did … More Weekend Reading: The Life of Brian
It’s been a peculiar week on the internet, with all kinds of odd things popping up: like this article from The Telegraph, which bounces bizarrely from British Museum acquisitions to recreational trepanning. Then of course there are the 30-50 feral hogs who have broken the internet this week. Nobody can quite pin down exactly why this no doubt … More Weekend Reading: Raining, Cats and Hogs
Something very strange has happened to me this week. A curious concatenation of circumstances – like an eclipse, but without all the telescopes. Yes, you guessed it. I’m having a day off. Starting right about … now. I have a whole 36 hours of complete freedom from responsibility. I’m on my own, with no absolutely … More Weekend Reading: On Leisure and Libraries
