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Friday, 8 March 2024

On how much I've found out about the Headlams and why I need to return to Durham to find out more

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Yesterday (Tuesday 5th March), I drafted the talk I'm going to be giving tomorrow to the Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies on what ...
Thursday, 7 March 2024

Lovely goddess...talk of Demosthenes: my paper at the Durham Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies on March 7th, 2024

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I'm writing this posting having just got back to Newcastle after an eventful day in Durham where I finally visited the Cathedral (and wa...
Wednesday, 6 March 2024

On my most Classically-relevant day with the Headlam papers including in poems by several of them as children

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I have said previously in this blog that some days spent with the Headlam papers take on their own character. Today's - that's Thurs...
Tuesday, 5 March 2024

Shameful profligacy and disappointment at Cambridge, school reports, and an insult suffered at the hands of two Headlam young men

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Over the last couple of weeks, I've increasingly enjoyed the glimpses I've had into the lives and interests of the Headlam young peo...
Monday, 4 March 2024

Gearing up to talk elite schooling, Classics and young people's enculturation in the Nineteenth Century via a case study of the Headlam family

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This week is my final one as a Barker Fellow at Durham. I started off wondering what I'd find, if much, if anything even. As it is, I...
Saturday, 2 March 2024

Finding an 'Ancient Place...where future grows and shakes its wings' en route to Seven Stories: The National Centre for Children's Books

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Today - Monday 26th February - I had planned to start the week with a day in the Palace Green Library. However, I didn't get there. As I...
Friday, 1 March 2024

'How can I appreciate the historic importance of the Nile valley if I do no know where it is': what Arthur Cayley Headlam's adult self thought about the education of young people - likewise his sister Rose Gladys

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What a day (I'm referring here to Tuesday 27th February). After doing what I do every Tuesday morning, namely go jogging, I spent a chun...