Please see the invitation to the memorial service for Charles Craddock.   more »

I pass on this further message from Charles Craddock's son Charlie. I had asked whether the funeral would be a public one:   more »

I wanted to let you know that my father Charles Craddock, one of your vice-presidents, passed away on Sept 11 after a long illness. He loved Latin and was a great admirer and supporter of your society. I am asking that donations at the funeral are made to ARLT.   more »

From Robert West:

I was sorry to see the announcement of Charles Craddock’s death in The Times today.

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I am grateful for this correction from Daphne Stevenson.   more »

The JACT/ARLT publication The Journal of Classics Teaching smiled up at me from my doormat this morning - four comic masks decorate the front cover.

But what's inside is serious and important.   more »

This email from the ARLT President arrived today:   more »

David Swift has been busy putting a wonderful selection of high quality pictures of the ARLT Summer School on his website,   more »

Some photos from the ARLT Summer School are on the ARLT website.   more »

Barbara lectured to the ARLT Durham Summer School on Homer. As soon as I unearth my notes on the lecture I shall post them alongside this picture.   more »

The Rector, he said, visited Liz in hospital recently and found her apparently asleep. He prayed aloud for her, asking God to bless Elizabeth. One eye opened and a voice came from the bed: "I think that by now He knows me as Liz!"   more »

At the ARLT AGM during the Summer School we said a hearty thank you to Dr Alison Henshaw for her three years leading the Association as President, and welcomed Linda Soames as our new President.   more »

There is a group photo here ...   more »

It is with great sadness that ARLT heard of the death of a faithful member and former Summer School Secretary, Liz Teague.   more »

A few pictures taken on Wednesday 26th July 2006   more »

In what sense is Ovid's Metamorphoses an epic?

Peter Jones took time off from teaching the JACT Classics Course, which ...   more »

Here is a bit of video of the reconstructed commandant's house at the fort of Arbeia in South Shields.   more »

Annals Book 1 is an A level text, but JP wanted to change our way of thinking about what it was really like when Augustus died and Tiberius took over the reins of power.   more »

Given the nature of our sources, retrospective psychoanalysis of Alexander is impossible. Arrian tells us nothing about his childhood, his relations with his parents. Plutarch devotes only a few chapters to the first two thirds of Alexander's life. This is enough for the novelist Mary Renault to write an excellent novel, Fire from Heaven, but not enough for the historian.   more »

ARLT Summer School members have been arriving this afternoon at St John's, College, Durham.   more »

Following your bit about coin images, you might like to let the world know that I've just added pictures of one of the ARLT coin sets to the website   more »

Almost 60 of us gathered in a university building in Russell Square for this annual INSET Day, and everyone I talked to or overheard was saying what a good day it was. I've set up a website specially for following up the day.   more »

Steve Llewellyn, the Director, has sent me the final mailing about Saturday's ARLT Refresher Day, which is available as a Word document (sorry about that, but Open Office will read it).   more »

By the end of the Summer School each year, people have made new friends and perhaps renewed old friendships, and, what is more, they have got used to sharing ideas about teaching. The same happens to a lesser extent after the single day in March, the Refresher Day. How can we maintain those links and carry on the exchange of ideas?   more »

I have been sent the programme for the Manchester Classical Association A Level Latin Texts day, which is on February 15th.   more »

Five ARLT members gathered yesterday in Loughborough to record Latin and Greek texts set for the current year's A level and GCSE exams.   more »

This report should have been posted earlier, when a 'place-holder' appeared on the blog. I have only now put made my notes into readable form.
Lena Rubenstein and her husband Jonathan Powell were not only our academic hosts at Royal Holloway, as it were, but also both gave cutting-edge lectures.   more »

David Swift has just sent me the web address of his photos from the 2005 Summer School.   more »

Both the most unpromising title of the Summer School and the most innovative and gripping lecture belonged to Professor Jonathan Powell.   more »

These are almost entirely my jottings taken during the lecture. They should really be read in conjunction with the handout which gives many quotations. It is not on line, I'm afraid. Still, these jottings give some flavour of the lively and humorous nature of the lecture.
Stephen Harrison's commentary on Book 10 is likely to be required reading for those teaching the book over the next two years.   more »

These are the notes that I made during Dr March's lecture, tidied up as best I can.   more »

Heat. OTT central building. Wandering meal venues. Great company. Great lectures. Excellent food.

We have had one and a half days so far, with only another one and a half to go.   more »

The official topic of the lecture was to be: ICT Print paper and mind - best practice in ICT in ...   more »

Dr Nick Lowe took the difficult after-dinner slot on our first evening; difficult, because a lecturer needs to be fast-moving ...   more »

I was very pleased to find myself on the guest list of 120 or so to represent ARLT at a reception hosted by the Friends of Classics in the Members' Dining Room of the House of Commons just before Easter. Note to others who find themselves in this position ~ leave a good twenty minutes to get through the security check at the gate.   more »

Lovely Linda was slightly overawed by the majesty of the Palace of Westminster. It was her first visit, and she wondered if others at the grand reception were feeling the same. They all looked so cool and self-possessed. Could it be that under those confident exteriors ...   more »

If you have attended one of the wondrous ARLT Summer Schools, you will have heard the words "O Arelates" at the opening of the Director's farewell speech on the last night.   more »

There may be one or two people in the Classics world who still are unaware of JACT, the Joint Association of Classics Teachers, that excellent body set up by ARLT along with the Classical Association and the now defunct Orbilian Society way back in 1963.

The JACT logo shows the three founding organisations as interlacing circles within the enfolding JACT circle.   more »

I have just come across publicity for a course (now in the recent past) to help teachers in teaching Latin GCSE. It was to run for one day between 10 a.m. and 3.50 p.m. with two good speakers. And I quote:   more »

The 2005 ARLT/CA Refresher Day has come and gone, and one participant tells me "York went really well .... Peter Jones was hilarious. There was a very good feel to the day." On a practical note, some of the Option Group leaders are providing notes on their topics to go on the web.   more »