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Sunday 17 March 2024
Day of Drama in Dublin
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Green was everywhere. The elation was palpable. Half the people on the flight from Stansted were dressed as leprechauns and the other half...
Sunday 10 March 2024
Pope Francis on Ukraine: What Has His Holiness been Reading?
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'You've got to be in it to win it' goes the adage cited by academics working overtime to submit lengthy applications to the ...
Sunday 25 February 2024
1772: James Somerset versus Aristotle
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I’m leading a project exploring the ubiquity of Aristotle outside the Academy. He has often been mobilised in progressive causes, but not...
Tuesday 19 December 2023
Nine Questions for the British Library's Chief Executive
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Seven weeks after the British Library was afflicted by a ransomware cyber-attack, its chief executive, Sir Roly Keating, has belatedly iss...
Thursday 8 June 2023
Goodbye to My Father, Man of God
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Like Shakespeare, Raphael and Ingrid Bergman, my father, the Reverend Professor Stuart George Hall, died yesterday on his birthday, 7 June...
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Monday 8 May 2023
Text of TLS Review of 2 Books on 2 Cleopatras
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CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER Egyptian princess, Roman prisoner, African Queen Jane Draycott ( 336pp. Bloomsbury. £27.99). CLEOPATRA He...
Saturday 18 March 2023
The Mystery of Greek Theatre's Use in Ancient Medicine
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The Ancient Theatre of Epidauros One of the reasons I’m so thrilled to be leading a retreat, with an initiative called Travelgems, in th...
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