Mary Beard

2 weeks ago | audiobooks.com | Mary Beard

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn her international bestseller SPQR, Mary Beard told the thousand-year story of ancient Rome, from its slightly shabby Iron Age origins to its reign as the undisputed hegemon of the Mediterranean.

2 weeks ago | nationalgeographic.fr | Mary Beard

Alors que ses représentations sont nombreuses, les experts peinent à déterminer le réel portrait du plus célèbre des généraux romains. Publication 11 juin 2025, 10:00 CESTEn septembre 2007, un archéologue français a fait une heureuse découverte. Il plongeait dans les eaux troubles du Rhône, à Arles, en quête de vestiges antiques conservés dans le lit du fleuve. Il en a remonté une tête de marbre grandeur nature délicatement sculptée.

2 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Mary Beard

Andy Haldane (previously of the Bank of England, and soon to be “previously of the Royal Society of Arts”) has just compared Nigel Farage to a tribune: “What is certainly true is Nigel Farage is as close to what the country has to a tribune for the working classes.” His message is that the Prime Minister needs to watch out for the growth of Reform, and its appeal to his working-class base.

3 weeks ago | the-tls.co.uk | Mary Beard

Manmohan Singh and Prince Philip, Chancellor of Cambridge University, at a ceremony in London, 2006 | © Prime Minister's Office, GODL-India, via Wikimedia Commons

3 weeks ago | observer.co.uk | Mary Beard

A lifelong Mrs Thatcher fan’s study offers some notable correctives, but won’t convert those who think she did far more harm than good A couple of decades is a very long time in politics. Twenty years ago, I seethed with rage at the “crimes” of George W Bush. These days, compared with the current occupant of the Oval Office, he comes across more like an old-school politician with whom I merely had some differences of opinion.