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Category Archives: Classics
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
Climb Every Mountain
Superficially, Sir Leslie Stephen, author of Sketches from Cambridge, by A Don, Hours in A Library, Essays on Freethinking and Plain Speaking, Social Rights and Duties, etc. etc. etc., would seem to be the most desk-bound author imaginable. But, in … Continue reading
The Two Cultures
Last week, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a series of five programmes about the origin, meaning and significance of the word ‘culture’. The hook on which the series hung was the opposition between the ways in which the word was defined … Continue reading
Posted in Anthropology, Classics, Life Science, Philosophy
Tagged Charles Darwin, E.B. Tylor, Matthew Arnold
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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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