The concluding part of the video diary of the 2007 ArLT Summer School in Cambridge.   more »

OEDIPUS coming on at NATIONAL THEATRE next year - dates unspecified as yet. Ralph Fiennes in title role   more »

Antigone, Bacchae and the Odyssey   more »

Trojan Women 20-26 August Their city conquered and their husbands and sons slain, what choices are now left?   more »

The core of the ArLT songbook was the book of songs by our founder, Rouse, which he wrote for his pupils to help them remember their Latin and Greek. Those songs were written for those days. I think we need similar songs for today.   more »

In 2002, there were 1,101 community college students taking Latin, up from 840 students in 1998, and more than double from the 497 students in 1986.   more »

Sir - The Housing Minister Yvette Cooper's stupid - to use her own word - example of the Romans constructing the city of York on a flood plain, to justify her Government's massive building plans, just won't wash   more »

Hadrian’s Wall Heritage Ltd (HWHL) will launch a marketing campaign to inspire people to plan their invasion to the famous Roman frontier this summer.   more »

I pass on this invitation posted on the OCR community site:   more »

More from the 2007 ArLT Summer School in Cambridge   more »

My regular readers will know of my enthusiasm for visiting Roman remains in Germany. I therefore commend this article in Qultures.   more »

Two and a half minutes on the first hours of the 2007 Summer School   more »

So we may welcome OFSTED's report which has been widely covered today.   more »

You may like to know that I was invited to talk about the situation of Latin in schools on yesterday morning's Good Morning Ulster programme.   more »

Back in December I reviewed the second of the Harry Potter books to be published in Latin, and wrote:   more »

Possibly worth downloading for classroom decoration?   more »

BIRMINGHAM Stage Company returns to the Grand Opera House, York, from Monday with more gory stories from Terry Deary's Horrible Histories books.   more »

The touring attraction from the National Museums Liverpool opened at the Museum of Lancashire, in Stanley Street, on Saturday and runs until December.   more »

To add to the list of communities for Classics teachers, I would also add www.latinteach.com, the US version, of which some UK teachers are members. Here there is quite a vibrant community   more »

The following report in The Observer yesterday sent me to my filing cabinet to fish out my own A level papers from 1953:   more »

I would be grateful for any short stories based on Athenaze Book that I could use as reading with beginner students aged 11-14 years.   more »

A most interesting and comprehensive dossier - not at all dodgy, as far as I can see - has been sent to me   more »

Textbooks usually show a photo of those infamous slave chains, and artists' impressions of slaves in Roman Britain. Now you can add pictures ...   more »

The Guardian's report today on curriculum changes includes History and Languages sections that seem to leave some place for the Roman Empire (under History) and perhaps a Classical language   more »

I am planning a series of INSET sessions for strategies to challenge the more able in both Classics and Latin.   more »

Google Books must be a fairly new offering from the rapidly expanding internet giant, because it is still in Beta. But when I put in the word Latin, and asked for books with full text rather that samples or teasers, I was rewarded with over 18,000 results, including many painstakingly digitalised Latin grammars from the 19th century.   more »

Google Docs is designed so that many people can share in creating and editing each document. It strikes me as a good tool for sharing teaching materials, with each teacher able to add to and improve the document.   more »

A great turn-out; there will be nearly 70 of us at the this year's Summer School.   more »

Wilf O'Neill has sent a comment on the topic of CA branch websites. I asked whether the Southampton branch site was the first, and Wilf reminds me that it isn't, quite. He writes:   more »

I have been asked to mention these gatherings, which it may not be too late, even now, to join. Myself, I hope to be in Cambridge at the ArLT Summer School.   more »

British History is to have a place in the new citizenship classes for all in secondary schools. There will no doubt be consultation about the content of this syllabus, and Classicists must be ready to put their oar in.   more »

The exhibition, which I reported in Michigan, has moved on, getting different press coverage. A brief extract:   more »

The view of Roman life purveyed in this piece from This is Hampshire may be excessively lurid, but at least the paper/website is using the interest aroused by 'Rome' on BBC2 to tell its readers about the Romans in their own neck of the woods. Have you got a similar story you could give to your local paper?   more »

Doubts about the Latin Mass - in Latin. Or rather, about the mind-set of the traditionalists.   more »

You can read, in Latin, the Pope's long awaited instruction for liberalising the use of the Latin Mass here.   more »

I am trying to find the Latin for the quote attributed to Cicero that goes like this:    more »

The current CA News (Number 36) came yesterday and is as always a delight to read - I took it with me as I had my bath, and that seems appropriate.   more »

I had just posted the excellent news from Martin at the Cambridge Schools Classics Project when I opened this email. This could be another opportunity to keep the bandwagon moving:   more »

Will here at the Cambridge School Classics Project thought you might be interested to hear how much interest in offering Latin we have had over the last three months.   more »

'Greg Swann, a broker for Bloodhound Realty, specializes in West Valley real estate' and calls Hoplites and Cincinnatus as witnesses in defence of private property. I leave you to decide whether there's anything in the argument. I hae ma doots.   more »

York's popular Roman Festival is being moved from its summer time slot to the autumn school holiday weekend of October 26, 27 and 28.   more »

You may perhaps know my own fondness for the Mosel region of Germany. Is there anyone who has not yet booked up every week of their summer holiday?   more »

A link to these two school-made videos was sent to me this evening. They cover (in English) the events of Aeneid Book II.   more »

I'm sure Will Griffiths won't mind my passing on one sentence from an email for your encouragement:   more »

While visiting the Classics department websites of many schools - I'm trying to use my time well while recuperating from an operation - I came across newsletters from North London Collegiate School Classics department.   more »

If the Department for Education and Skills had been a family, then this week's momentous changes would amount to a divorce, with potentially serious implications for the children.   more »