Mary Beard is an everyday sort of heroine ... I’m a professor of classics at the University of Cambridge who does some telly on the side’. And that is quite different.” ...

Mary Beard, described as the most famous classicist in Britain, presented her lecture titled “The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum” on ...

Mary Beard is everybody’s favourite poster girl. A classics don from Cambridge, Beard is revered for rescuing Roman history from a dusty discipline, elevating it to a primer on personality and ...

Film director Martin Scorsese was one of seven to receive the degrees this year The Hollywood film maker Martin Scorsese and classics historian Mary Beard have received honorary degrees from the ...

Members of the men-only Garrick Club have sparked a rebellion by nominating seven prominent women including Dame Mary Beard and Amber ... presenter and professor of classics at Cambridge ...

Beginning in San Francisco in 1981, the era of punk and nascent gay pride, Rebecca Solnit’s latest book 'Recollections of My Non-Existence' (Granta) is a powerful memoir of growing both as a woman and ...