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It's publication day for The Roads to Rome, so here's a little thread of what's inside.
Catherine Fletcher
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Catherine Fletcher
@cath_fletcher
History prof & author. Sometimes on your radio. President @SocHistoryWar. New book: THE ROADS TO ROME (US edition out Dec). Also history of guns. Tweets own ๐
- reading this ridiculousness on a train where the only toilets are gender-neutral and it causes exactly zero problemsSingle-sex toilets to be compulsory in new public buildings theguardian.com/world/2022/julโฆ
- It's come to something when using the university library in a normal way gets reported as a personal finance life hack.
How to learn and study in the UK at low (or no) cost theguardian.com/money/2023/aprโฆ - Very disappointed to see the @tate relying on unpaid labour to deliver its queer history programme. This is not a serious approach to diversity.
- Pioneering move by Edinburgh Uni here as they launch the new field of Christianity for Cats
- What is a more formal way of saying "appears to have shagged his way round Rome" please? It's for a history book.
- I see #REF2021 is asking universities for 2.5 pieces of work per full-time staff member which totally solves the problem of what to do with my half-written article.
- The question everyone was asking in sixteenth-century Venice
- Three Egyptian curators refused visas to attend international conference *for Egyptology curators* @SwanseaUni. The @ukhomeoffice is a national embarrassment. museumsassociation.org/museums-journaโฆ
- Might I encourage investigative journalists with an interest in universities to focus on the fact that students won't have time to read anything if they're working all hours to pay the bills.
- I'm in the Guardian talking about why we should remember the 78% of UK undergraduates who don't attend Russell Group universities.
- Replying to @cath_fletcherwhat next? a campaign to segregate train toilets?
- Reading a letter from 1494 in which the duke of Gandia is apologising for being behind with business 'due to the turbulent times of pestilence' and I think we can all relate to this.
