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Category Archives: Archaeology
Two Roving Englishwomen
Even in these days of avalanches of instant information, the CLC team occasionally comes across an author about whom we cannot find out anything except that s/he wrote a particular book and therefore may be presumed to have flourished at … Continue reading
Do You Like Kipling?
The wrong (and excruciating) answer to this is: ‘I don’t know, I’ve never kippled’ (this joke is courtesy of my father, more than 50 years ago, and it works a tiny bit better if spoken rather than read). I haven’t … Continue reading
A Meeting of Civilisations
In the last few days, a British government delegation, headed by the Prime Minister, has been in India, talking trade, visas, and, inevitably, the colonial past.
Posted in Anthropology, Archaeology, Art and architecture, Astronomy, Biography, History, Language and Linguistics, Mathematical Sciences, Philosophy, Printing and Publishing History, Religious Studies, Spiritualism and Esoteric Knowledge, Travel and Exploration
Tagged British Empire, India, Royal Asiatic Society
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Classical Journals
We are in the process of reissuing seven classical journals from the period when the scholarly journal (in the humanities at any rate) was a relatively new phenomenon. The eighteenth century saw the rise of the periodical – though I … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Cambridge, Classics, Education, History, Religious Studies
Tagged classical journals, classical studies
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Eton and King’s
Christmas, a few years ago now, wouldn’t have been Christmas without an M.R. James ghost story for Christmas Eve, courtesy of the BBC. Looking up exactly what was transmitted when, I was interested to see that the first of the … Continue reading
Posted in Archaeology, Cambridge, Classics, History, Literary Studies, Printing and Publishing History
Tagged Cambridge, Eton College, King's College, M.R. James
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