Valerie Hope

Introducing... The Roman Mourner - a comprehensive analysis of the customs and rituals associated with mourning and death in ancient Rome.

Find out more: bit.ly/4lMdRI6

22.07.2025 17:21 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Time for unboxing. Exciting to have my own copy at last! @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social.

15.07.2025 14:18 — 👍 10    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Check out this fab new book from our member @valmhope.bsky.social on Romans' funeral rites and mourning. #deathstudies

14.07.2025 09:04 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Publication day! Just in time for essential summer reading (preferably by a pool with a cool drink). @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @openthanatology.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...

10.07.2025 08:48 — 👍 39    🔁 10    💬 1    📌 1

A thing of beauty, & it’s in our garden #bloomscrolling #tinyjoys

17.06.2025 08:33 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

See the recent short article added to our Open Thanatology Hub? If not, you can read about this #ThanatologyThursday. "Grief and the body: mourning in ancient Rome" by Valerie Hope
shorturl.at/3eLgx

05.06.2025 09:17 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

A book cover with a black background and yellow edging. The title is: The Roman Mourner. Funeral Rites, Gender and the Body. Beneath the title is a sculptured panel showing a laid-out body surrounded by mourners.

Not long til publication (10/07/25) @bloomsburyclass.bsky.social @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social. Appendices are already available online. So if you're desperate to know (and who wouldn't be!) how often Roman mourners pulled their hair, groaned and so forth, see www.bloomsbury.com/uk/roman-mou...

03.06.2025 12:50 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Great to see this out. Thanks due to the editors. And its Open Access, with a full PDF on the publisher's website: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

21.05.2025 10:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Reminder that the call for these scholarships is open! Deadline 4pm on 3rd June!

20.05.2025 11:39 — 👍 2    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Dandelion seed head against a green grass background dotted with small white flowers

The head of a white rabbit against green grass, with a yellow dandelion just visible by the rabbit's mouth.

Trying to embrace the beauty of dandelions for no-mow-May.....or alternatively feeding them to the rabbits. Timmy loves a dandelion feast. #tinyjoys #weedscrolling rather than #bloomscrolling

06.05.2025 15:29 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Funded MA Studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University | Classical Studies

Applications are open for MA studentships in Classical Studies at the Open University! Open to:
- teachers in state schools/sixth-form colleges looking to develop provision of classical subjects
- students from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic background
More info: www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classi...

02.05.2025 13:27 — 👍 28    🔁 29    💬 2    📌 6

White & pink petals of apple blossom

A round cake with multi-coloured icing with a Happy Birthday banner. Behind a cake stand with cupcakes.

Apple blossom in the orchard & mass cake consumption with a relative #tinyjoys

29.04.2025 18:15 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

And don't forget you can also explore the guided, interactive tour of Pompeii that we made to accompany the series, and learn more about studying Classical Studies with @openuniversity.bsky.social connect.open.ac.uk/history-and-...

20.01.2025 09:05 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0