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Of childbirth and curses – a trip to Norwich museum | The word muses
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8216;Made in translation’ (or gloomily lamenting lost languages). Kenwood House’s dairy →. Of childbirth and curses – a trip to Norwich museum. March 23, 2014. A short while back I met up with my Granny to go to ‘Roman Empire: Power and People’, a much-publicised exhibition that is stopping off at Norwich Castle Museum as part of its UK tour. These were sheets of thin gold inscribed with magical writing that had been rolled up like a little scroll to be worn around the neck. This one. Now curse tablets w...
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Gathering Momentum | The word muses
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8216;Experimental epigraphy’ at Greenwich riverwall. June 10, 2015. Just as a by the way, I was going to call this post ‘snowballing’ but on checking the spelling I discovered that while. Think of snowballing as meaning either throwing snow around or corporate speak for increasing speed and mass there’s a section of the interwebs that think of it. Moving swiftly on I had an email from Claire. This week. Remember her Wikipedia editathon. Following on from her involvement with the TrowelBlazers editathon.
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Escaping the heat? Kenwood House’s dairy | The word muses
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Of childbirth and curses – a trip to Norwich museum. Edit-on dudes: #ClassicsWomen are into Wikipedia →. Kenwood House’s dairy. July 22, 2014. On Sunday, wanting to escape both research and the furnace-blast of London’s heat-wave, I walked through the woods at Kenwood House, recently of Hollywood fame as home to Dido Belle, daughter of a slave, Maria – and niece of the house’s owner, thus making more than usually visible the slavery that funded such colonial mansions. This woman’s (or women’s...This is t...
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Trig Lane trip | The word muses
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Confessions of an archaeology volunteer →. June 9, 2013. Another FROG trip today, less formal than Greenwich, just three of us catching the early low tide to see what the foreshore by Trig Lane riverstairs was up to. This stretch of the river is quite different to Greenwich – there’s a good account of it on the Thames Discovery Programme website. Also scattered about are quite a quantity of clay pipes – some with makers marks on them. The Museum of London has a user-friendly database. And to remind us th...
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‘Experimental epigraphy’ at Greenwich riverwall | The word muses
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Re-reading these childish things. Gathering Momentum →. 8216;Experimental epigraphy’ at Greenwich riverwall. April 28, 2015. There’s an especially fun-sounding area of archaeology termed ‘ experimental. At Greenwich however, carved into the riverwall here by the ruined steps* below the Trinity Hospital. Squeezes also function as back-up copies of actual inscriptions and can be studied away from the site – helpful in this case, as the inscription spends much time submerged in the Thames and is slowl...
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Author Archives: Claire M. Experimental epigraphy: the Greenwich inscription revisited. November 29, 2015. This gallery contains 6 photos. Life and PhD and general priorities have interrupted plans to go and properly record the Greenwich riverwall inscription – I’m now thinking that RTI might be the best way to go, although the wooden brace in front of part of … Continue reading →. September 21, 2015. This gallery contains 1 photo. June 10, 2015. Originally posted on HARN Weblog. April 28, 2015. Again an...
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Re-reading these childish things | The word muses
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A jocular and political tale in which a blogger may be digressing out of her depth. 8216;Experimental epigraphy’ at Greenwich riverwall →. Re-reading these childish things. February 15, 2015. It would be banal to say that I don’t read these books as I did as a child; in the trollish misunderstanding that is the internet, such disclaimers seem needed. Yet their enchantment is still there, thread worn in places, but magic carpet enough for an occasional foray into the past. Re-reading these childish things.
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Edit-on dudes: #ClassicsWomen are into Wikipedia | The word muses
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Kenwood House’s dairy. A jocular and political tale in which a blogger may be digressing out of her depth →. Edit-on dudes: #ClassicsWomen are into Wikipedia. September 28, 2014. This week, after a lot of planning and persuading people to get involved, I ran a Wikipedia editathon. The idea came about after I went to a conference. About over a dozen women in modern history who have made astounding contributions to classics – but who I’d never heard of! We started editing the pages selected, people express...
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‘Made in translation’ (or gloomily lamenting lost languages) | The word muses
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Archaeology, women and Wikipedia. Of childbirth and curses – a trip to Norwich museum →. 8216;Made in translation’ (or gloomily lamenting lost languages). November 1, 2013. Went last night to the excellent ‘Sappho in the City’ came home to a pile of catch-up editing for Wikipedia.*. In an odd coincidence, translation was at the heart of both these activities. (Even if Josephine Balmer’s. From the Aeolic Greek is to my bashing out a Wikipedia summary. Only the simplest of words mean exactly the same thing...
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