Just before I flew to London, I read Under Another Sky: Journeys Through Roman Britain, in which Charlotte Higgins documents her Grand Tour of Roman monuments in the UK. When I arrived, I enthusiastically followed in her footsteps, searching a car park for remnants of the Roman wall, visiting the amphitheatre’s ruins underneath the Guildhall,… Continue reading Under Another Sky by Charlotte Higgins
Month: January 2016
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard
Last year I set myself two goals for the year. To only read books by women, more on which here. To blog about each one. The first was a great success, and the latter an abysmal failure. One of the unexpected oddities of my year of gendered reading was a surprisingly large volume of histories… Continue reading SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard