text: With things the way they are in the world at the moment, it’s become difficult (to say the least) to explore not only Northumbria, but the wider world too: you just need to ask the Newcastle University Classics Society who were set to visit Rome in April! But all is not lost! Technology has improved […]
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  Joyce Reynolds: A short introduction 26 June, 2020
  The following article was researched and written by Naomi Bloxham, PhD student in History and one of our 2 Classics JobSOC interns for 2019–20. An exceptional teacher during testing moments Dr. Susanna Phillippo and I were set to interview Joyce Reynolds in March to gain an insight on her experience as one of the […]
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  Armchair exploring 4: Holy Island & Bamburgh: By the utmost margin of the loud lone sea 1 June, 2020
  Probably our last trip of 2019/20 was to have been this past weekend, to either Bamburgh or Holy Island (Lindisfarne). Both are reachable by public transport — with careful homework into tide-determined bus timetables for Holy island 🙂 — though not in the same day! (deciding between the two was going to be a challenge…) Both are […]
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  Hadrian’s Wall: Armchair exploring 3: Housesteads Hadrianic hymns, Hotbank hiking and Hipposandals 18 May, 2020
  Yesterday we’d have had our traditional Maytime second trip of the year to Hadrian’s Wall. We’ve done this trip many times with various itineraries — we sometimes include Vindolanda (when the bus remembers to go there 🙂!). Usually this second trip includes the energetic Housesteads to Steel Rigg walk and the tranquil Chesters fort and […]
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  PGF Seminar 3rd March 1-2pm
  We will be hearing from Oded Haim a current student at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Oded gained both his BA in History and English linguistics and MA in History from the Ben-Gurion University. His MA thesis focused on the Second Punic War and the Battle of Zama and he will deliver his paper entitled: ‘From Defeat to Victory: Why did Rome win the Second Punic War?’.
  For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk
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  Posted on 25 February, 2021 25 February, 2021 Author b9026381Categories PGF, Seminar SeriesTags Battle of Cannae, Battle of Zama, Classics, Second Punic WarLeave a comment on PGF Seminar 3rd March 1-2pm
  PGF Seminar 27th January 1-2pm
  We will be hearing from our very own Jerome Ruddick. Jerome is a PhD student working within the subject of Classics. He has a BA in Classics and Archaeology and an MSc in Forensic Archaeology. His PhD focuses on the Hellenistic period in Greece and the relationship between mythology, identity and material culture. Jerome intends on examining how material culture contributes to identity’s evolution and what this informs us about the nature of Greek belief. Jerome will deliver his paper entitled: “The Festival of Despoina: Creating mythological narratives through material culture”.
  For more information please contact Leanne: l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk
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  Posted on 22 January, 2021 22 January, 2021 Author b9026381Categories PGF, Seminar SeriesTags Classics, Festival of Despoina, Hellenistic Greece, Material Culture, MythLeave a comment on PGF Seminar 27th January 1-2pm
  19th January 5pm – Evening of Lightning Talks
  The Postgraduate Forum have organised an evening of lightning talks in which several of our postgraduate students will deliver a five-to-ten-minute paper on their research, followed by a brief Q & A session.
  Everyone is welcome to attend, please join us online on Tuesday 19th January from 5pm to hear about the fascinating research that is going on within our postgraduate community.
  For the Zoom information please email Leanne at l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk
  Speakers (in no particular order)
  Harriet Palin (History) – ‘Educating England, c.1500-1640’
  Harriet is a first year PhD History Candidate whose research looks at religious education in Early Modern England. In particular she is interested in media such as catechisms, hymns and prayerbooks and how such tools interacted as part of the pedagogic experience of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harriet also considers at themes of childhood, educational barriers and aurality and is happy to discuss these topics as part of the wider history of education.
  John Pearson (Archaeology) – ‘Getting Started with Glass Production Practice in Medieval Spain: The Fun and the Frustration’
  John recently returned to higher education after a long absence. He finished a taught MA in Archaeology here at Newcastle in 2019 which catapulted him into research on medieval glass production practice in Islamic Spain. John has had two periods of craft production practice during his working life, from 1985-1991 as a craft bookbinder and from 2008-2017 as a guitar maker. Practical engagement with materials and ‘thinking through making’ are central to his current research archaeological research.
  Alberto Murru (History) – ‘“Le polizie dell’Asse”. Police Collaboration between Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany’
  Alberto I started his PhD in 2017. He previously studied History in Bologna, Italy. His MA dissertation reconstructed the life of an Italian anti-propaganda organisation called ‘Anticommunist Study Centre’, which was created by the Fascist regime in the second half of the 1930s.
  Craig Thomas (History) – ‘Peer Power: Scotland northern England under the 5th and 6th dukes of Buccleuch, c.1820-c.1914’
  Craig is in the first year of his PhD in History. He previously completed his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees at the University of Dundee. Craig’s paper will give a brief overview of his Collaborative PhD between Newcastle University and Buccleuch Living Heritage Trust which will examine the industrial histories of the Buccleuch estates in Scotland and northern England under the 5th and 6th Dukes of Buccleuch, c.1820-c.1914.
  Zoe Ainsworth (Archaeology) – ‘Historic landscape change in Northumberland’s upland valleys (HiLand)’
  Zoe previously studied for both her undergraduate and masters in archaeology at UCLan. She is currently undertaking an Northern Bridge Collaborative PhD in landscape archaeology with the McCord Centre for Landscape and Northumberland National Park.
  Elly Polignano (Classics) – ‘Marcus Argentarius: critical edition, translation and commentary’
  Elly is in the first year of her PhD. Her research focuses on the widespread literary form of the epigram and Elly’s thesis will offer the first critical edition and commentary of Marcus Argentarius’s thirty-seven epigrams.
  Joe Redmayne (History) ‘The British maritime industry, 1914–19: split labour market, white labourism and colonial seafarers’
  Joe Redmayne is a second year History PhD student and is interested in global labour history. His doctoral research situates the location of County Durham during the year 1919 transnationally, and explores the global implications of Empire on British society through regional working-class consciousness. Joe is particularly interested in the category of ‘whiteness’ or ‘white labourism’ to renew our understandings of class consciousness in an age of world empires.
  Kevin Graham- (History) – ‘The Centre Ground of British Politics from 1918’
  Kevin is a lecturer in Politics and Law and he currently works as a part time Associate Lecturer with the Open University. Prior to becoming a lecturer, he worked in Politics as an MPs Researcher and developed an interest in political history. He lives locally and has previously been a parliamentary candidate and a local Councillor. His PhD focuses on the development of centrism in Britain and the role this has played in both addressing and responding to political changes over a one- hundred-year period.
  Posted on 5 January, 2021 5 January, 2021 Author b9026381Categories Events, PGFTags Archaeology, British Politics from 1918, Buccleuch Estate, Classics, Durham 1919, Early Modern, Education, Epigram, Fascism, Glass Making, Global Labour History, Historic lanscape, Islamic Spain, Lightning Talks, Marcus Argentarius, Religious Education, scotland, Working-class consciousnessLeave a comment on 19th January 5pm – Evening of Lightning Talks
  PGF Seminar 9th December 1-2pm
  We will be hearing from Alice Robinson a Northern Bridge funded PhD student in her second year here at Newcastle University. Her research re-evaluates Percy Bysshe Shelley’s relationship with Ancient Rome through text. She has an MA in Classics and a BA in Classical Studies in English and specializes in Latin literature, intertextuality, and Romanticism. She will deliver her paper entitled “Mapping Ancient Rome in Percy Shelley’s Writing”.
  For more information please contact Leanne – l.smith28@newcastle.ac.uk
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  Posted on 3 December, 2020 3 December, 2020 Author b9026381Categories PGF, Seminar SeriesTags Ancients Rome, Classics, English Literature, ShelleyLeave a comment on PGF Seminar 9th December 1-2pm