Author: Cora Beth
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I’ve been reading a lot of abstracts lately, and thinking about what makes a good one. So here are my thoughts, for those times when…
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As I explained last week, I’ll be trying to publish, every Friday evening, a set of links to the week’s interesting news, views and silliness…
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This is the first in what I hope will be an ongoing series of weekly (or weekend-ly) posts, rounding up the interesting classical news and…
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You’ve come to the end of your module, or even your degree: and that was a great feeling for a couple of weeks. But now…
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You’ll no doubt have noticed, on the module website, a link to the Open University’s undergraduate Classics essay-writing contest for the Kassman Prize. Should you enter?…
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I’ve been hearing a lot lately – with final assessments nearly due and exams looming – about luck. ‘Good luck!’ ‘Fingers crossed!’ ‘Touch wood!’ But…
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Every academic website out there has “10 tips for exam success”, or “8 exam don’ts” or “7 last-minute revision tricks”. So as exam season approaches,…
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Being the sophisticated classicist wot I am, I’ve recently taken an interest in the Playmobil Roman range. But why? I hear you ask. Well, I…
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In The Universe in a Nutshell, Professor Stephen Hawking’s sequel to the immensely popular A Brief History of Time, Hawking pauses in his explanation…
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I’ll be doing some editing work on the OU’s own Classical Reception journal over the next few weeks, so Reception is on my mind.…
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