Oliver Thomas
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Back to the Future
February 13, 2015
Katharina Lorenz revisits Percy Gardner’s views on Classics, teaching ancient art, and changing the world. “If anything has been proved in the history of education during the last half century, it is that mere technical instruction in detail does not produce the highest efficiency. It is here that many so-called practical men are mistaken. The …
Classical Consolations
February 9, 2015
Undergraduate Juliet O’Brien finds solace in the classical sections of Hallward Library. Even in an age where we have all sort of comforts at our disposal, we are nowhere near achieving universal happiness. I know I’m not the only one who gets anxious in the face of coursework deadlines and exams. And for those of …
Death at York
February 4, 2015
As part of the Nottingham ‘Anniversaries through Coins’ project, Larissa Ransom describes how on this day, 4 February 211, the Roman emperor Septimius Severus died in York. Lucius Septimius Severus was born in April 145, the son of the equestrian Publius Septimus Geta, in Lepcis Magna, North Africa. In March 193 Pertinax, the successor …
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