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Rome's La Sapienza rated top university in the world for Classics 04 Mar, 2021 La Sapienza University in Rome has been ranked the top university in the world for Classical Studies and Ancient History in the 2021 edition of the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) World University Rankings. The result, which reconfirms rankings held in 2018 and 2019, sees Rome knock Oxford off the podium and also makes La Sapienza the only Italian university to boast an absolute first place at an international level. The Rome university also came 10th in Archaeology (first in Italy) in the 11th ...

The British Museum curator Ian Jenkins and I were unlikely allies. I remember, as a postgraduate student, thinking him terrifying – not just academically conservative (everyone whose heels I was snapping at in those days was liable to that charge) but potentially disapproving. Sixteen years later, he and I were going through the draft of my book Classical Art: a Life History in his tiny office in the British Museum, paper everywhere. He was the only specialist in Greek art, other than my husband, whose (dis)approval I had sought on the whole book – and his advice was invaluable. He was ...

Many would consider Amersham an unlikely place to find the model of ground-breaking British architecture which effectively launched the International Modernist style in Britain. Whilst those of us lucky enough to live here realise we have many architectural gems, few are aware of the international significance of High & Over. The house created a stir when it was designed in 1929 by Amyas Connell. As a student, in 1926 he won a prestigious architecture award for a residency at the British School in Rome. The director at the time was the distinguished archaeologist Bernard Ashmole. He gave ...

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