Those of you who’ve been following my blog for a while will know that I don’t need much of an excuse to break out the Lego. And today is International Lego Classicism Day, which is a brilliant excuse – so I’ve spent the past week happily building things and making myself laugh.

This year, because I’ve been talking to students a lot about fragmentary sources, I decided to bring back some of the lost books of the ancient world – and because I always wanted a bookshop of my very own, I built one! Here it is…

…and if you click through to the Bookshop page, you can read about all the lost books I’ve included!

You can also check out my Classics and Lego page, where I’ve finally collected all the projects I’ve done for #ILCD over the years.

But there are, of course, many other things going on for #ILCD25, so do check out the hashtag on social media through the day! This year’s event is hosted by the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at Reading, so they’ll be doing interesting things.

One of my highlights, every year, is the participation of Pippa Steele from the Cambridge VIEWS Project, and this year’s post on “Dead” Languages is no exception.

There are loads of other participants too, from individuals (including Natalie Haynes and Michael Scott) to whole university departments.

And Minimus the mouse (along with creator Helen Forte) has been posting Latin/Lego content all week!

Happy International Lego Classicism Day to all who celebrate!

Cora Beth.