Just heard Kemi Badenoch say that Brits now go on holiday to Rwanda. Does anyone have the figures for British tourism to Rwanda?

Sorry to flog a dead horse here, but just in the interests of accuracy: D Murray appears not to have noticed that I said at length that Clark's Civ had been hugely influential on ME, started my career in a way; & I recommended rewatching! Can't please..! tinyurl.com/28h2ut5z

#Korting ! Nieuwe acties op onze kortingspagina, zoals met het oeuvre van @WMaryBeard (@ProfileBooks) in aanloop naar haar komst naar Amsterdam: 3 boeken voor de prijs van 2! Lees je in voor een goede prijs.

well done indeed

IMPORTANT! Due to a fire at the Crowne Plaza Hotel we have had to relocate all our Festival events. Please see this link for the new locations & share with anyone you know who is coming to the festival. tinyurl.com/mv9zth7r

I’m celebrating my new Collected Poems, reading on 8 May in Cambridge. (More readings to follow…)

'I had fondly imagined the elderly artist in his final years proudly hobbling around a city much of which he had designed. No such luck.'

Mary Beard (mary beard) on Michelangelo in old age
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So delighted to hear mary beard decry Bluey’s Bandit for his infuriatingly – she says “creepy” – perfect parenting. I had to ban the show during lockdown. Couldn’t take it.

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⚔Join the nation’s favourite classicist (and Museum Trustee!) mary beard as she explores the often-overlooked ways in which women contributed to – and were impacted by – Rome’s imperial expansion…
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My lecture on 'unlocking the cases' that I did at Stanford earlier in the week is now available online tinyurl.com/2p9fv8nu

What, or whom, is the past for? 💭

Come along to this year's Rede Lecture delivered by @WMaryBeard, as she uses the image and reality of the museum as a way of exploring how we approach the past and why we study it.

Free event, open to all.

Tickets are going fast – book now 👇

mary beard Antigone Journal Michael McNeil I watched it, and I didn't think you were attacking him.

In fact, I thought your point that he was able to 'tell a story' was a good one and explains why a 1969 series is still compelling where later efforts have not been.

Same goes for Robert Hughes on modern art.

Here is a little blog, reflecting on the strength of feeling 'Civilisation' arouses (written before Douglas Murray's fulminations... which wd otherwise get a mention).

K Bezier The Spectator Kenneth Clark also wrote: 'I am, quite irrationally, in favour of returning the Elgin marbles to #Greece , not to be put back on the #Parthenon , but to be installed in a beautiful building on the far side of the #Acropolis .' But you are wrong about mary beard, #respect

mary beard K Bezier is wrong about you Mary but we thank Kenneth Clark for 'quite irrationally' being in favour in 1943 of returning the #ParthenonMarbles to be 'installed in a beautiful building on the far side of the Acropolis' paid for by 'the British Government ' - here's to #respect

Everyone has their own K Clark... Mine is the Scottish socialist, pioneering democratiser, brilliant scholar, enthralling writer, traiblazer for a new museum age, advocate for the contemporary, scourge of aristocracy & academia alike, and also prob a very irritating snob!

See you in Shrewsbury!👇

If people would like to see what I said in a few minutes to provoke the ire of some cuture warriors, here it is tinyurl.com/mu7x3aee I think that K Clark himself would have engaged more constructively and politely!

Looks like I'm facing the greatest ever test of 'How many Latin quotations did I learn from Asterix?'

An Evening With Mary Beard, hosted by Kieran Hodgson (!) (?), Glasgow City Halls, 9th July.

Tix available, Alea Iacta Est.
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?????👇or should many flowers bloom