Latin works well with children who are not strong academically, he said. “It’s very organized, very transparent,” he said. “There’s a rule for everything.”   more »

Unfortunately she has entered into the elitist world of Harry Mount, and chooses to talk, not just to the author, but also to a teacher from St Francis College, Letchworth, one of the top achieving schools in The Times list, who turns up her nose at Latin as it is taught to the majority of Latin students in the country.   more »

An article in The Herald about growth in interest in Latin in Great Britain   more »

An optimist, listing for me the reasons that the deplorable state of the world is not quite as bad as we think, cited, as one of them, ‘the Latin revival’. Oh, is there one? I haven’t heard anyone saying anything in Latin recently, have you?   more »

Will Griffiths offers to send a DVD on request. Revised broadcast dates as well.   more »

Visitors to the Latin and Greek for All stand at the Language Show went away with a goody bag including a DVD of a Teachers' TV programme yet to be broadcast.   more »

"The Roman rite has Latin as its official language," he said. The great religions of the world all "hold on" to their founding languages: Judaism to Hebrew and Aramaic, Islam to Arabic, Hindu to Sanskrit and Buddhism to Pali, he said.   more »

Can't remember if I've mentioned the site www.latinandgreekforall.co.uk . It has been set up to accompany the stand at the Language Show, and at first has just the text of the handouts from the Show. Eventually, however, the plan is to make it a comprehensive guide to all the ways of learning Latin and Greek in the UK.   more »

This email from Will Griffiths pleased me a lot, and I'm sure he's over the moon.   more »

I went to my parish church this morning, armed with flyers advertising the next of our monthly concerts, only to find a class of 18 University of the Third Age (U3A) members acting out the trial of Hermogenes, with a retired lawyer taking the part of iudex.   more »

Er ... that's it, really. Watch it!   more »

We tried to get ahead with the folders, but it was sometimes a close thing, as the stand began to run out.   more »

A few pictures of the work done by Anna, from JACT, and Will, from the Cambridge Schools Classics Project in setting up the stand at Olympia.   more »

A 6 minute video of the stall at The Language Show in Olympia   more »

Latin might be stagnant in some parts of the world, but the Indian Hill middle school and high school embrace it.   more »