There may be storms across the SW, but rest assured that Dr Mike’s bar is open as usual. Negronis, anyone?
Dr Mike Beer
@mikebeer.bsky.social
Classicist:likes Elagabalus,cultural hybridisation,Caravaggio & Brutalism.Assoc. Lecturer,OU;Hon Research Fellow,Exeter.Trainer & coordinator, Classics for All.
Social media is reminding me that it was 19 years ago today that I submitted my PhD thesis.
I’ll be doing something ancient history related in London late January. The malign spectre of Cicero will almost certainly make an appearance.
My research on mass poisonings in the Roman Republic has led me to look at moral panics, so I’m currently reading this classic.
Today it's a deep dive into Sulla's lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficis from 81 BC.
I have just formally accepted my third cruise lecture spot on the Sun Princess for next year, again travelling between Rome and Athens, via Naples, Crete,Kusdasi and Mykonos.I’ll be doing two in May/June and one late October.
Trumptonshire Architecture - a quick critical tour of every building seen in Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley. timworthington.org/2022/06/09/t...
Trumptonshire Architecture
An only very slightly academic study of the houses, buildings, shops, sheds, walls, windmills and cider presses that appeared in Camberwick Green, Trumpton and Chigley.
timworthington.org
First teaching session this morning for my new OU module: A340 The Roman Empire.
Some pleasant and unexpected news today will be celebrated in the time honoured way in Dr Mike's bar this evening.
OU Work in Progress seminar date finalised for next month ahead of submitting book proposal to publisher by end of year.
CSCP 60th Birthday Conference Happy birthday CSCP! In January 1965 a meeting took place in the rooms of one Classics don at Gonville and Caius college Cambridge, during which a proposal - two...
CSCP 60th Birthday Conference
Happy birthday CSCP! In January 1965 a meeting took place in the rooms of one Classics don at Gonville and Caius college Cambridge, during which a proposal - two sides...
theclassicslibrary.com
In case anyone was wondering, Dr Mike’s bar will NOT be having a special offer on Tuscan reds this evening. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Thieves in Italy steal 30,000 wine bottles worth €5m, reports say
The heist at the Florence-based winery is believed to be one of the largest thefts of its kind in Italy.
bbc.co.uk
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Hetan Shah@hetanshah.bsky.social · 2w agoArchive of @britishacademy.bsky.social Fellow Stuart Hall is now live. Includes looking at his impact on the history of communication theory, culminating in the architecture of contemporary AI models www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Archive link: stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Recording a version of my Poland paper on poisonings in the Roman imperial court, which lies somewhere between what was delivered at the conference, what will appear in one of my cruise talks and what will go in the book.
The first episode of Chigley (the final series in the Trumptonshire trilogy) was originally broadcast on this day in 1969.
www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...
‘I spat in Sean Connery’s face 16 times’: Ron Perlman on making The Name of the Rose
‘When I couldn’t do the spitting scene, Sean took me aside and said: “Ron, if you don’t actually spit in my face, we’ll be here all day.” So I let one fly – and kept having to redo it’
theguardian.com
Taking on an extra new job with a different university. Something Latin related. May need more hours in the day.