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Some good news from the Telegraph: Some 160 pupils in three schools will be given lessons in the native tongue of Archimedes and Herodotus from September. The move follows the successful introduction of Latin to dozens of state primaries in England. The Iris Project, a charity campaigning for the teaching of the Classics, which is…
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Of course, he has another gig: He came, he saw, he got told off for not paying attention in class and then he was heckled by binmen. It was all in a morning’s work for the supply teacher at St Saviour’s and St Olave’s Church of England secondary girls’ school – or, as he is…
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Not sure how long this one from BBC4 will be available … here’s the description; audio file after the jump: How were Roman political techniques for getting elected similar to those of today? The Romans produced their first handbook on electioneering 2000 years ago, written by Cicero’s brother Quintus in the first century BC. London…
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