September 2010
3 posts
Emperors' first speeches: Nero to Miliband →
I’m sure you knew this post was coming. But any classicist reading Ed Miliband’s first speech to conference will have instantly gone back to some good Roman precedents.
There was the…
Ed Miliband: the police caution →
The husband and I were out at the Faculty this afternoon (preparing a party for returning alumni) when the result of the Labour leadership election was announced. I’m not sure how…
Museum parties: balls, dances, conferences and the... →
I have been doing some work in the archives of the Fitzwilliam Museum, and particularly the nineteenth-century history of the place (on which more later). But a very quick trawl…