100 Historical Things, Number 30

I didn't actually have a plan for a historical post today, but then I saw an interesting article and thought it merited a post of its own:

Britishness and the sharing of common landIt's by a Cambridge archaeologist (not someone I know personally, I'm afraid), and is really about social history - how the sharing of ( Read more... )

100 Historical Things, Number 21

Today is International Museum Day, and I just wanted to give it a brief mention because in my opinion museums are wonderful things. Not that I think I really need to persuade most of my f'listers of that ( Read more... )

Sainsbury won. See here.

I can't say this got me very excited at all really. I wish there had been a serious alternative to Sainsbury who might have stood a chance of being accepted by a decent proportion of the Regent House. Oh well! If he gives Nectar points to people working for the university, I might just decide he's a good thing...

As you probably know, I'm starting out as a DoS, and I just wanted to get a quick survey of what Cambridge undergraduates in Classics experienced in their first and second years. I'd be very grateful if you could spare five minutes to answer a few questions!

( The questions )

I don't like the new look Hermes Webmail has changed to today :( Things like this always make me feel all unsettled, dammit.

ETA: But you can change it back! Just go to Preferences > General Preferences > Template Set > Traditional :) I am now officially a happy Pippa!

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I'm just here to pimp a community I run called camwriters. The idea is that people based in Cambridge who write (whatever they write - prose, poetry, etc.) can get together online for discussions, and so on. I hope the community is currently undergoing a revival, so please do come over and join if you're interested!
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X-posted everywhere!

This is a review of Elizabeth: The Golden Age, which my wonderful James took me to see last night (*squeee*). I'm not cutting it for spoilers, because it's *historical ( Read more... )

Aaaargh! I'm sick of being in the middle of typing something and suddenly realising I've entered it into the password box for FB because the window just popped up!)

Well, this is just another post where I try to promote camwriters again!If you don't know, it's a community I set up for people who like writing (anything fictional, fanfictional, slashy, ( Read more... )

(I just posted this to cantabrigiensis so might as well post it here too!)

A while ago, I started a community called camwriters, with the aim of providing an LJ group of Cambridge-based writers who could then share stories/poems/fanfic/etc they've written with others ( Read more... )