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Around the UK in eighty days!
It’s been a busy start to the new academic year as CA branches across England and Wales have welcomed audiences to a variety of events this autumn – from podcaster Tristan Hughes’ visit to the...
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Maximum Classics
Latin and Greek for English vocabulary – an inclusive approach for all students and teachers Charlie Andrew, Director, Maximum Classics CIC Based on my experience of teaching Classical languages, one...
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Sardis – A Classical Wonder
In our latest blog, Year 12 student Altan Mardin, who has a keen interest in archaeology, tells us all about his recent trip to Sardis. Atop the Acropolis, looking out at the expansive city before me,...
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Autism Awareness Day: Myth and Reality
by Cora Beth Fraser This Sunday is World Autism Awareness Day, which sounds like a magical day of celebration for autistic people like me. But like everything else in life, the reality is not that...
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Artefacts in Action
by Chloe Lewis Classics teacher Chloe Lewis explains how her passion for teaching classics in interesting ways, with a focus on ancient objects, led her to start a new venture… Artefacts in Action is...
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A brand new branch!
By Graham Barrett On 11 May 2023 the Classical Studies programme at the University of Lincoln was delighted to host Professor Thomas Harrison, recently appointed Keeper of the Department of Greece and...
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A Special Recognition
We are delighted that our very own Outreach Officer and Chair of the Classics Development Group, Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, has been made an MBE by King Charles III for Services to Education in the...
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Celebrating in Cambridge
Our Engagement Co-ordinator Katrina Kelly reflects on CA 2023 and the range of events we enjoyed across the weekend. This Spring, more than 450 of us came together in person and online from across the...
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What does the CA mean to you?
2023 marks 120 years of the Classical Association and we’re taking this opportunity to reflect upon some of our work to widen access to classical subjects over the past century: we created an...
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Ancient Greek Alive – Frogs on Film!
Athens, 405 B.C. The city finds itself devoid of talented poets. Consequently, the god Dionysus, accompanied by his slave Xanthias, embarks on a journey to the Underworld to retrieve the renowned...
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Reading Ancient Schoolroom
By Eleanor Dickey What were Roman schools really like? Of course we know a lot about them in an abstract sense: children worked individually at their own pace, they wrote on wax tablets and read from...
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Croeso i Caerdydd: Classics past, present and future
In December, the Cardiff and District CA celebrated the revival of the branch with a relaunch event attended by a hundred guests, speakers, students and supporters in the Welsh capital. Our Branches...
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In Memory: Prof. Richard Seaford
It was with great sadness that the Association learned of the death of Richard Seaford, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Richard was President of the...
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Classical Texts in the KS3 English Curriculum
By Claire Woozley Early January in a busy, urban school and I’m lucky enough to be watching lessons centred around Simon Armitage’s earthy translation of The Odyssey. Having worked closely with our...
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Nabataean Coins: A Royal Rebrand
Our Expert in Residence, Hannah Parker (@historical_han), shares some of her latest research in a CA Member exclusive by exploring the shift in the way in which Nabataean kings appeared on coinage....
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Wild Visions in Sheffield
In January, thanks to a grant from the Classical Association and organisation from Sarah Fryer (Sheffield High School for Girls) and Gina Johnson (High Storrs School), the Sheffield and District CA...
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A Weekend in Warwick
This April, we headed to the University of Warwick for the 2024 CA Conference, where hundreds of delegates from across the world came to share their research, exchange ideas and build friendship and...
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Athena Society: using history to tackle misogyny in schools
by Laura Aitken-Burt As much as we all love Classics, with all its fantastic mythology, literature and art, there is no escaping the fact that it is a subject that is infused with misogyny. It is the...
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