This tag: Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time
The Lives and Importance of women in Republican and Imperial Ancient Rome and Roman Britain including the importance of the worship of goddesses. This course was run at the City Lit and British Museum on Saturday 2nd March 2019. It covered the contrasting roles of women in different parts of Roman society in the Republic… Read more »
- Posted on: March 16, 2020
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- Also tagged Ancient History, Ancient Rome, Art History, British Museum, Etruscans, European History, In Our Time, Melvyn Bragg, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Women's history
This tag: Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time
Ancient Rome and its encounters with Celtic Britain This course ran at the British Museum and City Lit on Saturday 8th December 2018. Britain was part of the Roman Empire for nearly 400 years from AD 43 to 410 but the association of the two civilisations went back a further century to Julius Caesar’s invasion… Read more »
This tag: Melvyn Bragg’s In Our Time
This course ran at the City Lit and the British Museum on Saturday 15th October 2016. I also ran it as a three day course between Saturday 3rd and Saturday 17th November 2018. During the pandemic I ran the course twice online over three evenings: 15th, 22nd and 29th January 2021 and 16th, 23rd and 30th… Read more »
- Posted on: November 24, 2018
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- Also tagged Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient Rome, British Museum, Colossus of Rhodes, European History, Hanging Gardens of Babylon, Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, Melvyn Bragg's In Our Time, Pharos of Alexandria, Pyramids, Seven Wonders of the World, Seven Wonders of the World and the British Museum, Temple of Artemis, Zeus