Month: December 2020

Hi all, hope you had a good Christmas. Over the past few days our student-staff liaison officer has been in touch with many of the department to collect some tips for you all. Hope this is helpful! Dr Polly Stoker: Set yourself realistic/achievable targets i.e., ones that you know you can/will achieve – and perhaps even … Continue reading “Essay Writing Tips!”

Inspired by the study ‘Children as Learners and Producers in Ancient Greece’ by Susan Langdon, we (Laura and Ellen) have been exploring underrepresented voices in Ancient Greece. With a focus on child producers, we have been studying the ways in which these voices can be identified within the archaeological record and within our archaeology collection. … Continue reading “Child Potters in Ancient Greece: Final Thoughts and Reflections”

  Last week we visited CAHA’s archaeology museum to study the miniature votive objects. We assessed the votives using Langdon’s methodologies, as discussed further in Blog 4, in the hopes of identifying the work of inexperienced craftspeople, and even the work of children. Here we present the results of our analysis of the key items … Continue reading “Child Potters in Ancient Greece: Evidence in the CAHA Museum”

I graduated from the University of Birmingham this July, aged twenty-one. With an undergraduate English and Classical Civilisation and Literature degree in hand, I turn to the world and I plan my next adventure in museum work. But picture me a seventeen-year-old school student, sitting in one of several UCAS meetings in which I shyly … Continue reading “‘Classical Creativity: How My Classical Civilisation Degree Inspired My Art’ By Izzie Heis”