Operation Wisbech Ceramics!
The University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) are working in partnership with Wisbech and Fenland Museum (W&FM) to highlight its remarkable but little known collections and to develop projects of mutual interest. Following discussions between the Fitzwilliam Museum (the largest of the UCMs), it was decided to embark on a pilot documentation project – code name ‘Operation Wisbech Ceramics’ – to…
The First World War in Print: propaganda and the revival of ‘artistic’ lithography
On Remembrance Sunday 2018 it will be one hundred years since the signing of the Armistice agreement, at the 11th hour, on the 11th day, of the 11th month, which effectively brought an end to the First World War. To mark the occasion, this blog explores the making and meaning of a portfolio of lithographic prints which were commissioned by…
Amo, amas, amat… and so much more than that: the Minimus Primary Latin Project
When I joined the Museum of Classical Archaeology as Education and Outreach Coordinator back in 2013, one of my first actions was to set up a project to offer after-school Latin clubs in couple of local state-maintained primary schools. Hot on the heels of having left behind a career as a Latin teacher, it seemed like an easy first project…
