Dr Victoria Leonard

St Fagans: Bronze Age gold jewellery stolen from musuem Police are investigating a burglary at St Fagans museum in the early hours of Monday morning.

Awful news from Wales, the St Fagan's Museum has been broken into and prehistoric goldwork has been taken. Its painful to think what objects might now be at risk. Thoughts with the museum team who must be devastated, all speed to the police and a curse on the crooks.
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My book, out now! On migration law's treatment of women, gender-based violence, and the legal challenges that migrant women have brought to the rules that determine their status. I have links if you want to review a copy or read a free chapter....

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That's standard, surely

Also Sarah, I *think* you'll find there's this sceptre. Or fruit knife. At the MET.

Panella's book on this find is very detailed: C. Panella (ed.), I segni del potere: realtà e immaginario della sovranità nella Roma imperiale
(Bari: Edipuglia, 2011). The standards are fascinating!

Welcome to our new Bluesky account!

Herbert Art Gallery & Museum is based in Coventry city centre since opening on 9th March 1960.

We aim to host world-class exhibitions, events for all ages and ever-changing displays.

Follow us on here to keep up to date with our latest news.

📸 Garry Jones

Great to see the #CultureCoventry #museums are here:
The wonderful #Coventry Transport Museum @covtm.bsky.social
The equally fab Herbert Art Gallery and Museum @the-herbert.bsky.social, currently home to Dippy the Diplodocus and
Hidden wonder, Lunt Roman Fort @luntromanfort.bsky.social
#culture

A black and white photo of a large protest for peace and justice down a residential street.

A graphic with the words 'Grant awarded!' It features a confetti illustration background and a badge with the Lottery Heritage Fund logo.

We’re thrilled to announce £131,350 support from The National Lottery Heritage Fund for Stories That Made Us: Roots, Resilience, Representation, an exhibition co-curated by Hardish Virk [Create-Showcase] and the Herbert.

A huge thanks to #NationalLottery!

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#StoriesThatMadeUs

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Ha!

It is so needed Liz! Nevermind Seneca 😆

Yes!! It's so interesting

Francesca Wade would do such a good job!! @francescawade.bsky.social

Francesca Wade · Why waste time hot airing? The Best-Paid Woman in NYC In​ her twenties, Belle da Costa Greene was one of the best-paid women in New York City. As J.P. Morgan’s personal...

‘As J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, she criss-crossed the Atlantic in pursuit of rare manuscripts to add to his collection, outbidding and outsmarting rivals wherever she went.’

Francesca Wade on Belle da Costa Greene:
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

#WCCWiki yesterday reminded me that there really needs to be some good new book on the history and women of Bedford College, which feels quite ignored compared to, say, histories of women at Oxbridge. Hope someone can get on that soon...!

#WCCWiki is today!

"not only have I gained experience of photogrammetry, but I have also gained a much deeper understanding of it through the errors and challenges faced in using the technology"

Aimée Wilkinson reflects on a summer internship at the ICS supported by the Roman Society: ics.sas.ac.uk/blog/ehrenbe...

#WCCWiki is back on Wed 24 Sept 2025, 13.00-15.00 GMT. All warmly welcome. Online editing session with Zoom meeting: us02web.zoom.us/j/81829924385. Email womensclassicalcommittee@gmail.com for more information

Equal pay – a long time coming. Reflections on the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act

Last chance to book for this evening’s special online seminar @ihr.bsky.social at 5.30pm BST. It will reflect on what we can learn from the history of equal pay legislation, with the help of Sally Brett and Megan Fisher. Please register below to join us. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

Zoom details to follow! Keep an eye out here or on our Events page: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

#WCCWiki is back after the summer break!!

For your calendars, the next #WCCWiki online meetup & editing session is 13.00-15.00 GMT, Wed 25 September.

We'll be editing together to improve the gendered rep of classicists (broadly conceived) on #Wikipedia, & we can provide training to start editing

I'm looking for researchers on crime/punishment in Britain, particularly Cheshire. I'm in touch with CRO, but access is limited due to the move. I've also spoken with Cheshire Policing Museum (records are mostly at CRO). Any time period, but esp Victorian! There may be a freelance research opp here.

This call for submissions states that the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association seeks submissions of scholarly articles on the early medieval period and late antiquity, from anywhere around the globe, between the fall of the Roman Empire and the end of the eleventh century. The Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association publishes articles that appeal to those interested in our period, whether these are focused on the historical, political, social, literary, cultural, religious, ethnic, geographic, and interpretive crossovers between.

While the Call for Papers for our annual conference may be closed, we are still open to submissions for our Journal!

JAEMA publishes scholarly articles on the Late Antique and Early Medieval world, see our website for details: aema.org.au/journal/

Cold spots: Mapping inequality in SHAPE provision in UK higher education This British Academy report reveals that many parts of the UK are becoming subject cold spots – areas with no provision in a subject within a commutable distance. These are often in rural, coastal or ...

Hot off the press, the British Academy's Cold Spots: Mapping Inequality in SHAPE Provision in UK Higher Education report. Read it if you care about universities or access to the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences for the rising generation. 1/5

Humanities and arts degrees disappearing in parts of UK Students from rural and disadvantaged areas disproportionally affected by subject cuts, British Academy warns

'As universities close courses and departments in response to financial pressures...students in parts of the North, South West and East of England, as well as large areas of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, are losing access to social sciences, humanities and arts (SHAPE) courses.' 1/2

Front Cover: Portrait of Constantius II in his consular finery, distributing largesse. Chronograph of 354, Romanus 1, ms. Barb. lat. 2154B, 13r. Rome, Biblioteca Vaticana. The Picture Art Collection / Alamy Stock Photo.

New issue of Journal of Late Antiquity Vol. 18, No. (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/55589 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social @jmrcolvin.bsky.social

This looks brilliant Ellen!

Volume 9 Issue 3 | Studies in Late Antiquity | University of California Press

the new issues of Studies in Late Antiquity has our SBL forum on the 20th anniversary of THE WAYS THAT NEVER PARTED (co-ed @annetteyreed.bsky.social): ft. me, @simchagross.bsky.social, Heidi Wendt, and Jae Han's intro!

online.ucpress.edu/SLA/issue/9/3

Fantastic!!

No cover image yet, but look what's coming from CUP 🤓

Veiling in the Late Antique World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment share.google/LTK0QdIDGuWF...