Tonight on PBS in the US we go in search of female #gladiators for a special edition of #Secretsofthedead The episode is reviewed in today’s Wall Street Journal #queensofcombat www.instagram.com/reel/DUDOGRN...

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Today, 9am BST on BBC Radio 4! The brilliant Roman love poet Catullus is the poster boy for teen angst. He feels everything intensely, from the stealing of his favourite napkin to the death of his lover's pet sparrow… My guests are his biographer, Dr @daisydunn.bsky.social, and Prof Llewelyn Morgan!

1/7 Spanning three thousand years, from the first stirrings of Minoan Crete to the fall of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, #TheMissingThread by @daisydunn.bsky.social is a fantastic guide to ancient (especially Greco-Roman) history through an incredible cast of women who inhabited and often shaped it.

“We can trust these male writers” Thoughtful and serious discussion bwt @mathewlyons.bsky.social & @daisydunn.bsky.social on the challenges of ancient history - balancing contemporary questions about women's roles with understanding the past as a foreign place. open.substack.com/pub/mathewly...

Interview: Daisy Dunn

Recovering the forgotten histories of women in the Ancient World

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Great interview with @daisydunn.bsky.social about writing about women in antiquity

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I think this is the best interview I’ve done so far. @daisydunn.bsky.social had so many thoughtful & illuminating things to say about how women have been erased from history, the challenges of restoring them to life, and writing histories of the ancient world mathewlyons.substack.com/p/interview-...

Thanks to @peoplemag.bsky.social for inviting me to write about my fave women's history books and include my own. Featuring @marthasjones.bsky.social @thefrankiedlc.news @melissasevigny.bsky.social @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social @daisydunn.bsky.social

10 Nonfiction Women's History Books for When You Need Some Real-Life Inspiration

If you loved "Hidden Figures" and "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks," check out these other great books on women doing amazing things throughout history.

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#TheMissingThread is out in UK paperback in 6 weeks with a regal new cover! A new history of the ancient world foregrounded by women: 3,000 years, 500 pages, £12.99. I'd be so grateful if you'd consider pre-ordering a copy from anywhere you like waterstones.com/book/the-mis...

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Buy The Missing Thread by Daisy Dunn from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

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Brilliant Alice Loxton asking James May, @thehistoryguy.bsky.social, @daisydunn.bsky.social @tomowolade.bsky.social & Ash Bhardwaj for their tips for 18-year-olds at the Festival last year 👇 We’re thrilled to have @historyalice.bsky.social back this year to discuss her book Eighteen - & much more!

Look how happy I was to see you! Thanks for continuing to be the best audience in radio last night. Extra thanks to my amazing guests, @daisydunn.bsky.social & @llewelynmorgan.bsky.social, brilliant Beth the producer, & the Broadcasting House team ✨🏛️ These will be hitting the airwaves this summer!

For years arguments have been made for dating the eruption of #Vesuvius in AD 79 to some time in autumn. Now, the pendulum is swinging back towards the 'official' date of 24 August. I'm happy to weigh in with some scepticism over this revision www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/s...

Vesuvius Erupted, but When Exactly?

Two thousand years on, scholars still don’t agree on the day the destruction of Pompeii began. Two new studies only fan the fire.

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Fascinating new study of teeth from the Roman Empire suggests that babies living in cities were breastfed until they were about 2 years old, whereas rural babies were typically weaned later, up to the age of 5 www.science.org/content/arti...

Ancient Roman breastfeeding guidelines were followed closely in the cities—but not the hinterlands

Tooth chemistry shines a light on weaning practices across urban and rural communities in the Roman Empire

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Thrilling discovery of a #Pompeii bathhouse! I'm also enthusiastic about the earrings which are of a style called 'crotalia'. They were v fashionable in the 1st century and made little rattling noises as the pearls swung together. Moralist Pliny hated them www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Is the study of Latin in peril? And what does the future hold for the ancient inheritance? 🗣️ @alastairbenn.bsky.social is joined by @daisydunn.bsky.social, @armanddangour.bsky.social, and @paullay.bsky.social to discuss the value of ancient languages. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/e...

EI Talks... the case for Classics

Podcast Episode · Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts · 16/01/2025 · 43m

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Archaeologists uncover Roman ‘service station’ during roadworks in Gloucester www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Archaeologists uncover Roman ‘service station’ during roadworks in Gloucester

The mutatio, on Ermin Street linking Silchester and Gloucester, would have provided a place for travellers to rest or change horses

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'Husbands moved to join their wives’ communities upon marriage, with land potentially passed down through the female line' - fascinating new research into ancient genetics pointing to the prominence of women (at least) in Celtic Britain www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

Women held the power in Celtic Britain, archaeologists suggest

Groundbreaking study indicates that land in the Iron Age was passed through the female line in a society that astonished the invading Romans

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📽️ I’m part of the Gloucester History Festival Winter Warmer Digital Festival! Enjoy my conversations with: @susiedent.com @rentravailer.bsky.social @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social @corinnefowler.bsky.social @daisydunn.bsky.social + many more! www.gloucesterhistoryfestival.co.uk/winter-warme...

I met #NoreenRiols, who has died aged 98, in 2011 after going to hear her talk about her work in the SOE (for which my late grandfather was also an agent). I was completely captivated by her and her eloquence. Fascinating obituary of her here: t.co/0NeKbPCQSw

What better to listen to in the morning than the latest research into the social competence of pigs? My paean to #FarmingToday in this week's Spectator plus Simon Armitage on the poetry of slugs with penis-like antennae on BBC Radio 4 www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-...

Finally made it to #VanGogh #Poetsandlovers at the National Gallery (tickets are gold dust but obtainable like the Golden Fleece) and while I can't choose a favourite painting, I did admire these olive trees on a sunny January day. I suppose as a classicist I would.

My well-thumbed lexicon has saved my ass on many occasion. How can I not be excited to read this?

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‘I am improving immensely in water transactions...& at cricket dare look at the ball without shutting mine eyes' – Henry Liddell, co-compiler of the Greek-English lexicon, was no sportsman, but boy did he live an interesting life. My review for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

Our December book club read is The Missing Thread by @daisydunn.bsky.social & we meet on Sunday 29th December at 7pm (GMT). For the Zoom link, join the mailing list here: subscribepage.com/classicsacademy The programme for January-April is here: helenmcveigh.co.uk/book-club #Ancientbluesky

‘I am improving immensely in water transactions...& at cricket dare look at the ball without shutting mine eyes' – Henry Liddell, co-compiler of the Greek-English lexicon, was no sportsman, but boy did he live an interesting life. My review for @thetls.bsky.social www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-feat...

Alice's Father by John Witheridge | Book review | The TLS

To classicists, Henry Liddell’s name is synonymous with the Greek-English lexicon he compiled with Robert Scott, his colleague at Oxford. Between 1834 and

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Io, #Saturnalia! I'm off to indulge in some delicious feasting and a spot of festive gambling. Have a lovely Roman holiday everyone

Very nice to find #TheMissingThread in this ace selection of books of the year in @the-independent.com ! www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

The 20 best books of the year, ranked

Our chief books critic Martin Chilton chooses his very best reads of the year, from state-of-the-nation novels to surprising memoirs

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The questions you google about #Pompeii answered for @history-hit.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFA...

Historian Answers Google's Most Popular Questions About Pompeii

YouTube video by History Hit

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'Certain publishers and booksellers...have shoals of telegrams from women before Christmas for new medical books to be sent to their doctors — for lack of any other ideas on the subject' - The Times, December 9, 1924 www.thetimes.com/comment/regi...

Gift books for Christmas

Om this day 100 years ago

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If anyone's looking for some historical non-fiction for Christmas, my women's history of the ancient world #TheMissingThread comes with a glamorous recommendation!

I heard you were saucy at my gates

In this week's @thetls.bsky.social I've reviewed a biography of one of the most notorious #womenoftheancientworld. Phryne could be quite funny. To a client who presented her with a diminutive flask of 10-year-old wine, she quipped, 'It's small, considering its age'! www.the-tls.co.uk/classics/gre...

Phryne of Thespiae by Laura McClure | Book review

Phryne achieved fame as a hetaera (“companion” or courtesan) in Athens in the fourth century BCE. She was rumoured to have inspired not only Praxiteles’ Knidian Aphrodite, a sculpture so sexy that a m...

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James Baldwin at 100; the real Reagan; growing up in a commune; George Smiley returns; philosophy and mysticism; Sherlock Holmes in the pub – and much more