As I made the highly intelligent decision of creating this blog during a period of epic procrastination from essay writing, I am now in a position where I am too busy and frazzled to commit to in-depth posts at the moment. So instead I thought I’d reblog this wonderful article from The British Museum Blog about the Beau Street Hoard of coins discovered in Bath. Being a numismatist in the making, this has really peaked my interest and I’m excited to see that Richard Abdy (Curator of Roman Coins & Medals at BM – see his staff profile here) is involved with the project. I was lucky enough to attend a talk by Richard at The Barber Institute of Fine Arts (lucky as its part of my university) to coincide with their latest numismatics exhibit – Cityscapes: Panoramic Views on Coins and Medals  – and he is a world-leading numismatist and truly interesting man. I may hopefully (fingers, toes and other extremities crossed) be working with him and the department for a few weeks this Summer, so I can question him persistently and annoyingly about the Hoard!

Now back to Nero and the rhetoric of the grotesque!

Helen

First Post!

Hello and welcome to what I hope will be my first (successful) attempt at a history blog! I originally had this on Tumblr but after 3 posts and months of inactivity I somewhat gave up on it but now that summer is approaching I am determined – and I MEAN determined – to get the ball rolling again and actually start writing things that aren’t demanded of me to pass my degree.