This is another in my occasional series of posts on stuff you might not be told but you will not in fact learn by osmotic immersion in the Academic Ether. (See also my posts on writing job applications, giving a job presentation and what to expect in a job interview.) This time: how to chair a conference session. As always, these are my thoughts - cross-check them with your peers, mentors, supervisors, best academic mates.

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, generally known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the…

Does anybody know who is running roman-britain.co.uk these days? There's no attribution pages anymore I can find and old http URIs are being incorrectly redirected to URIs beginning with "localhost" p...

This is the second 'Odyssey' popcorn bucket to be announced, joining the gloriously geeky IMAX camera.

With speakers invited to look at recent and future projects on the numerous notebooks documenting the travels and research of William Gell (1777-1836), the well-known English antiquary and topographer...

Good academic writing means sitting with a discomfort that never entirely goes away. It’s not a discomfort that comes from having nothing to say. Most of us have more than enough ideas crowding the…

This book offers a new history of women's integral contribution to archaeology, history, and heritage in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain and beyond. Born out of the Beyond Notability project...

Help Ellie Mackin Roberts raise money to support Step Forward (Tower Hamlets)

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My father does not like to give unsolicited advice, and when I was going off to college, he gave me no warnings about drugs, drinking, or boys. He did, however, give me one tip: “Don’t study Latin.…

LSE Collaborative Studentship with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Ulysses and Circe; Ulysses in a boat with companions (in the form of pigs), Circe standing on the shore, offering him a vessel Pen and black ink, with red, blue, grey and brown wash, sheet cut down

The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, generally known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the…

Project Curator: Hidden Stories of Childhood Greece and Rome; Egypt and Sudan Full-time: 41 hours per week (including one hour paid lunch break) Fixed term for 12 months £36,396 per annum Application deadline: 12pm (midday) on 17 October 2025

This project, Decadent Travellers and the Reception of Classical Antiquity, will investigate the development of a decadent version of the Grand Tour in the late-nineteenth century, informed by the …