Tactual Museum of Athens
Since International Museum Day (18 May) has just passed, I am taking the opportunity to talk about my visit to the Tactual Museum of Athens in September 2022.
Posted on: 12 June 2023
Ancient Athenian Women and the issue of abortion
What was abortion perceived in Ancient Greece? PhD Candidate, Sofia Giapantzali, gives us an introduction into her findings.
Posted on: 19 May 2023
ACE & Creativity: The Muses Sang Not of Us
In this ACE & Creativity blog, Helena Czaykowski explains how she retells Book 22 of the Odyssey with a different perspective. 'If you look at a great hero through the eyes of the innocent girls he murdered, what do you see?'\n
Posted on: 25 April 2023
Brick Club
Brick club is a new extra-curricular experience for students and staff in Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology to enhance our sense of community and belonging through serious play. Brick club provides a space in which we use LEGO to create models and art, but it is much more than this.
Posted on: 19 April 2023
Lulu Bennett's trip to Rome
CLAH263 The Roman Experience: History, Archaeology and Heritage is a new second year module that provides students with detailed, first-hand knowledge of key sites and monuments in and around Rome. One of the students, Lulu Bennett, has written about their experiences in Rome.
Posted on: 19 April 2023
ACE & Creativity: Colours, Watercolours
It was the twilight of The Bronze Age and The Dawn of The Iron Age when this story began. In fact, The Bronze Age was already past, remained only in memories of some people. And it was like a fairytale, as twilight colours mixed with the dawn of new age, so our fairytale layed watercolours, picture of love between young ladies and Prince or King, gods and goddess, roses...
Posted on: 10 March 2023
ACE & Creativity: Goodbye For Now
The second 2023 instalment of the ACE & Creativity series is a one-act drama written by Phyllis Brighouse.
Posted on: 14 February 2023
British Library Exhibition - Alexander The Great: The Making of a Myth
Dear ACE & Creativity blog readers,\n\nIt is my great pleasure to write the first blog for 2023, in which I will discuss a topic dear to my heart: Alexander the Great and his reception(s). \n
Posted on: 19 January 2023
Exploring Historic Mortuary Culture - Part two
This is the second part of Eloise and Naomi Dark's report on their Graduate Internship Scheme placements.
Posted on: 22 December 2022
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Tactual Museum of Athens
Since International Museum Day (18 May) has just passed, I am taking the opportunity to talk about my visit to the Tactual Museum of Athens in September 2022.
Posted on: 12 June 2023