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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I love Belfast. 1) it has my lovely friend Emma there 2) awesome pub quizzes with fellow millennial tattooed people 3) I get to geeking out at the Belfast Summer School with the Classics Academy 4) an amazing rescue cat cafe which helps to foster and then find forever homes for cats

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Comrade on my A-level quest…or I’m being micromanaged

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Summer time = redesign the classroom and purge it from everything we don’t really need! Today, I actually picked a lock with a bobby pin and a paper clip! Fallout style! Take that missing C8 filing cabinet key!

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When your Year 12 Historians see Metallica and bring you back merch! My students are awesome!!!

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Year 11 prom to AQA HQ this morning, Sports Day and Y13 prom tomorrow - this week is 🤩🥳

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

This week at #LCSagora we explored the Thirty Tyrants and started reading Lysias’ Against Eratosthenes! I’m SO proud of these amazing students! Ranging from ages 11-16, today they read Attic Oratory that most undergraduates don’t even study! #TeamRhetoric #Oratory #speeches #teaching #UK #school

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Session 1 @histassoc.bsky.social amazing paper on addressing gender bias in the history curriculum #haconf26

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

My dear friend Emma is on her book tour! She’s awesome so if she’s at an event near you, go and hear about Servus, how slavery made the Roman Empire @emmasouthon.bsky.social #rome #ancienthistory #slavery #romanempire #book

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

When your Year 11 historians surprise you for the last lesson before exams 🥹 and got cinnamon rolls for everyone 🥹

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

#TeamRhetoric It’s brilliant to launch our new Oratory and Rhetoric Club at Lichfield Cathedral School: AGORA The LCS Agora will be a space to explore rhetoric, oratory, and persuasion from the origins of democracy in Classical Athens to modernity! #democracy #oratory #rhetoric #teaching #debates

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

First term as the new HoD of History and Politics at LCS ✅ #teaching

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

One of the best versions of Macbeth I’ve ever seen. Truly Scottish and what a brilliant setting for it #Macbeth #RSC #Shakespeare #TheOtherPlace

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Well behind (HoD in a new school - autumn caught up with me!) but here’s my latest @classicstober.bsky.social for yesterday. Day 14 Cocytus, the river that flows to Acheron, of wailing and lamentation. οιμοι φεύ φεύ

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

An early start, but what a beautiful morning singing on BBC Radio 4 this morning for Sunday Worship with Lichfield Cathedral Chamber Choir

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Very excited to get my hands on the new book by Rachel Ball and Alex Fairlamb ‘The Scaffolding Effect’. I LOVE their ‘What is History Teaching Now’ so cannot wait to read this and put it into action in my department!

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Supporting the Bham Lit Fest 2025 with the awesome #punksandchancers x #blackcountrytype collab. Support our libraries! #BooksBab #LibrariesGiveUsPower www.birminghamliteraturefestival.org

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Thank you to the brilliant @emmasouthon.bsky.social for recommending @gregjenner.bsky.social You’re Dead to Me and @jonathanhealey.bsky.social new book. That’s my summer reading sorted on causes of the civil war for my Alevel history students.

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Beautiful Musica Deo Sacra Matins service at Tewkesbury Abbey yesterday, with a sunbeam streaming through. I also thought, Margaret of Anjou was here! In 1471 a defeated Somerset & some Lancastrians sought Sanctuary here, but it was broken by the Yorkists. The abbey was purified & reconsecrated

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My last day at the educake office, so I obvs was a total tourist. Ta’ra a bit Oxford (and can you be a classicist and not go to the Loebs in Blackwells??)

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Also, to my fellow #classicists in the normal 9-5 world, it’s never too late to come back to our research. I’ve been working on versions of my #CA2025 paper since 2017 (the world keeps giving me more populist material…) but here’s proof that we’re still academics even if we’re outside of academia

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Thank you to everyone who came to my #CA2025 talk on the reception of Demosthenes’ use of identity, the past and parrhesia in modern populist discourse! It was brilliant to receive such positive feedback and engaging questions! Huge thanks to the brilliant @lottieparkyn.bsky.social for capturing it

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

May you find someone who gazes at you like I do a statue of Demosthenes or a map of the Ancient Greek World (thank you @lottieparkyn.bsky.social for capturing!)

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Good morning from ‘A Declaration of Classics: Classical Reception under Fascism’ panel at #CA2025

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Excited to be presenting on the Reception III panel at #CA2025 conference this weekend in St Andrews on #Demosthenes. If you’re there, please come and say hi! See you at the ceilidh ca2025.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/programme/se... #ClassicalAssociation

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Here’s Flo in a heatwave with her little ice cube

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

📣 Calling all little Ancient Historians and their grown ups! The BMCA’s Athena’s Owls 🦉 will be a Greek Myth Forest School for May, June and July! Oonagh has created a brilliant set of sessions to explore ancient myths in Birmingham’s Cotteridge Park #teachancient #myth #greekmyth #forestschool

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Brilliant day at @classicsshrewsbury.bsky.social exploring Plato, Aristophanes & fear of Demagogues with Democracy & the Athenians students! Had a great chat with Freddie & Kaitlyn on Titan Talks podcasts, then visited Wroxeter #teachClassics #democracy open.spotify.com/episode/0o7u...

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

#YESBAB to seeing @newsagents.bsky.social live yesterday in Brum! Thank you so much for your podcast, you’re a constant is this time of uncertainty and chaos! #brum #thenewsagents #politics

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

@lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social Cincinnatus was made dictator to save the Ancient Rome (Boris compared himself to him…) but the key point is that he stepped down when the job was done, went off to be a farmer. But a key point was made by my late professor Niall Livingstone on citizens in Athens:

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

First time since 2020 I’ve not been to Jan INSET. It’s been a weird one, had a little cry, but also no Sunday Scaries. New job means I’m an ally to my teacher friends and colleagues making resources to support their workload. Still used this mug though #teacherlife #exteacher #careerchange #teaching

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

For people not taking Christmas leave and saving it for 2025, we’ve got this. Oh and here’s Flo:

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Really hoping she’s not staring at a spider 👀😅 #Flo

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

To those who’ve known me over a decade, you’ll also know our beautiful giant soft girl Milly. We had to say goodbye to her today: she had very aggressive cancer. We were lucky to have 12 amazing years with her, but we couldn’t let her suffer. Our sweetest little floof girl

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

If anyone else has had a week where life has spent their cognitive bandwidth, here’s Flo:

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Dr Sarah Bremner @brummieclassicist.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

She took her new job of watching me work very seriously

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