Richard Ashdowne @RKAshdowne
Linguist, classicist, lexicographer, aviator Oxford Joined July 2012-
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A breathtakingly talentless American 'musical' contribution to the Olympics closing ceremony. Unbelievable.
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Are you a researcher at a UK-based university? Language Acts and Worldmaking, based at King’s College London, is looking for researchers to complete their survey for a British Academy-funded project on the role language skills play in academic research: app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/kings/ba-pro…
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Your words are the seeds, we just shake the branches 🌱 Happy #ALCSDay to all writers!
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The Ruffian has LANDED. This week's is about academic historians who are destroying their own discipline. ian-leslie.com/p/the-end-of-h…
.@Stagecoach_Ox Second time this week that the 2110 s3 from Oxford has failed to show up, without any explanation or apology. Care to offer either?
The answer is in the question! bbc.co.uk/news/world-asi…
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Many of those right at the top of Government designing and imposing lockdown policies had clearly made a judgement on their own level of risk, acting accordingly - why couldn't we?
Taking advantage of the fine weather (at last!) for a brief sortie to Halfpenny Green
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🧵(1/8) This new report from @HEPI_news adds to the growing bank of evidence demonstrating the enormous value of education and training in the humanities: hepi.ac.uk/2023/03/30/hum…
Another delightful evening, this time in Univ welcoming back some of our students who finished their courses during the summer 2020 lockdown.
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IN OUR TIME: SOLON THE LAWGIVER 23 March 2023 Professor Bill Allan joins Melvyn Bragg and guests to discuss the statesman and poet whose political and legal reforms transformed Athens in the 6th century BC. The episode will be available here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
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Pure gold!
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12th century wall painting of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne in the Galilee Chapel at Durham Cathedral. Today is St. Cuthbert’s feast day. #MedievalMonday
Well, that was utterly delightful!
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A question: the Ancient Greeks and Romans spoke Greek and Latin, so how important is it for Classicists to know Greek and Latin? This issue now divides opinion. Today, Wolfgang de Melo of @oxfordclassics offers a 2-part defence for teaching the languages: antigonejournal.com/2023/03/classi…
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Spydere Man, Spydere Man Doth al things a spydere kan Sondry webbes he kan weaven Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen Lo! anon cometh Spydere Man
.@OxfordBusCo taking the racing line?
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Hallelujah for The Chord.
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