I had an email on a Classics list today about funding cuts to the National Museums Liverpool. As a child of the north-west Merseyside area, I have many fond memories of the Liverpool museums, which include a fantastic central museum (v good collection of mummies and sculpture, and many many many other things), a maritime museum in the Albert Dock ( ( Read more... )

I posted a while ago about the OCR examining board's plans to amalgamate Latin, Greek and Classical Civ A Levels into a single Classics A Level. This would be a considerable blow to the study of Classics in this country.

There is now an online petition to the government to try to prevent this from happening. You can sign it hereIf you have even ( Read more... )