Unexpected Learning Journey

One of my most anticipated reads of 2025 is available to pre-order!! 👀

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So pleased to have an article out (open access) this week about designing for autistic students! 🎉

Do take a look, if you're a teacher interested in accessibility...

The relaxed tutorial project: designing synchronous online tutorials for autistic students www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The Working Classicists Awards 2025

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Working Classicists Awards 2025
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It's time to announce the winners of #WCA2025!

Our six categories this year:

🎨Creative Classicist
🦸Unsung Classicist
🧑‍🏫Educator Classicist
🤝Community Classicist
🌱Newcomer Classicist
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⭐Working Classicist of the Year

And our winners are...

So excited to hear what you think!! 😍🫶🏻

9/9 I will end here as I do not want to drop any major spoilers! But, in short, you are all in for such a treat when #BoudiccasDaughter hits the bookshops on 28th August!

Huge thanks to @Elodie_Harper and @HoZ_Books for the opportunity to read it early!

#AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky

8/9 It was also fabulous to see some cameos from the wider Elodie Harper Fictional Universe! I adored every scene featuring Senovara (who you may know by another name in #TheWolfDen) and I enjoyed seeing a slightly different side to Pliny through Solina’s eyes…

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7/9 All of the characters are beautifully complex! I especially liked how Elodie handled Paulinus and his dynamic with Solina – my emotions were in knots by the end!

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6/9 Elodie has constructed such an evocative vision of the ancient British and Roman landscapes - I tabbed lots of passages (see below) because they were so beautifully written!

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5/9 Elodie has captured the nature of war in all its messiness and nuance, not shying away from the impact on its victims or those who deliver it, and navigating the more distressing aspects with thought and empathy.

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4/9 #BoudiccasDaughter is also a story about survival - carving out as many pockets of happiness that your circumstances allow and the sacrifices one must sometimes make to do so.

3/9 It enriched the tapestry of the Roman world that Elodie Harper wove in #TheWolfDen trilogy, as well as my understanding of Iceni society and their revolt against Rome, which I have only ever briefly touched on until now.

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2/9 How do I begin to describe how much I loved this book? Through the tale of Boudicca's eldest daughter, Elodie reimagines not a legend but a woman, as we peer into what their lives may have been like and how the idea of “Boudicca” was forged.

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1/9 In #BoudiccasDaughter @elodieharper.bsky.social gives us both a fierce reimagining of one of the most famous conflicts in history and a beautiful exploration of the relationship between a girl and her mother, culture and conflicting desires for love, freedom, justice and revenge.

Happy Pride Month! Here's a sonnet from Wordsworth being a (questionable?) ally - about the Ladies of Llangollen, Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby who were clearly just very 'good friends'...

7/7 I also loved the incorporation of quotes attributed to some of the women who featured in the book - it made them feel more tangible and complemented the idea of handing the narrative back over to them.

#TheMissingThread #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky #bookreview #history

6/7 I am in awe of how much research must have gone into this book! Daisy Dunn has such an accessible, immersive, often witty style of communicating history so all that information trickles out at a great pace.

5/7 There was lots to discover about the more familiar names too! I especially loved learning about an extraordinary letter attributed to Cornelia Gracchus urging her son, Gaius, not to use his tribuneship to take revenge on the senators who had assassinated his brother.

'The Missing Thread' open on the page that recounts the story of Telesilla (pages 114-115)

4/7 A name that really stood out to me was Telesilla, who not only played a crucial role in defending her city when the Spartans invaded in 494 BCE, but was also an accomplished poet, having taken it up on advice from the Oracle at Delphi as a way to cope with chronic illness.

3/7 This book opens up so many new angles from which to understand the ancient world! Each chapter covers a specific segment of time, pulling together both distinct and shadowy evidence to shine a light on a variety of female experiences and their connections to events within it.

'The Missing Thread' open on the first page of the introductory chapter (page 1).

2/7 We decode hidden messages with a Spartan princess, gallop across the Steppe with the Scythian women, and cut through the freezing waters of the Aegean with Hydna, who, along with her father, sabotaged an invading Persian fleet by severing their moorings under the cover of night.

Lorna's outstretched hand in the process of removing a copy of 'The Missing Thread' by Daisy Dunn from a dark wood bookcase. A variety of ancient-world-related books are visible on the shelves.

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.

This brilliant book is publishing in paperback today!

#books #AncientBluesky #ClassicsBluesky

A fantastic opportunity to study an AS level in Ancient Greek ONLINE through @classicsforall.bsky.social 🏺🏛👇

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Spent the afternoon lying in my garden enjoying the sunshine and a new edition of @hellenicsociety.bsky.social ARGO magazine! #ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

So many great people doing great work in Classics, ancient history, archaeology and other related disciplines. 😊

AND WE WANT TO HEAR ABOUT EM! 📣

Nominate someone and share the story of their brilliant work.

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Just a few of the amazing Classicists at the #Mythica launch last night at Daunts Books. The book by Emily Hauser is wonderful & now available to buy in hardback and kindle! www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...

Vaporwave style: Working Classicists Awards 2025 - Six categories - Nominations now open

Our annual awards are now open! Nominate someone who is doing lovely things in Classics.

Maybe you know a teacher, or an enthusiast, or an archaeologist, or an artist, or a podcaster, or...

It takes a minute and can have a huge impact. Go on... click the link! 🖱️

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🏆Working Classicist of the Year🏆

The coveted title of Working Classicist of the Year is for those who succeed across multiple categories or who fully embody the values of a Working Classicist. The criteria is wide open, tell us why they deserve to win and we’ll hear you out.

🌤️Unsung Classicist🌤️

This award is for people who tirelessly promote Classics and inspire others, they might create welcoming spaces or curate content, but never get the recognition they deserve.

🌱Newcomer Classicist🌱

Someone who is new to Classics, but has made significant effort and progress in the field. This is a place for enthusiasm and passion to be rewarded.