Mary Beard and Jarvis Cocker join judging panel of 2026 Booker prize - Raymond Antrobus, Rebecca Liu, and Booker ...

On this episode of “The Archive Project,” we feature renowned author, Mary Beard. Probably the most famous classicist in the world, Mary Beard is best known for her international bestsellers “SPQR,” ...

Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker and BBC history and arts broadcaster Dame Mary Beard are among the judges for the 2026 Booker ...

The historian is set to lead a ‘stellar’ 2026 panel featuring the Pulp frontman and other acclaimed writers, as the search begins for next year’s standout work of fiction ...

When Mary Beard’s broadcasting career took off in her mid-50s, she became one of Great Britain’s best-known and most beloved academics thanks to her candor, knowledge about the ancient world and ...

Adapting a lecture into a book is difficult. A good lecture, even one that lasts an hour, should only cycle through a single full idea. The lecturer should introduce some supporting concepts, and ...

In her newest book, “Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient World,” Mary Beard renders a group portrait of the men who led the ancient empire, from their personal quirks to how they governed. Beard, who ...

Speaking with the studied understatement of a Cambridge professor, classics scholar Mary Beard says of Plato, “if he was here, I’d want to give him a good talking to," noting that his Republic has ...

The way women operate today in the public sphere is not too different from how they did in the literature of Homer or the Middle Ages, says Mary Beard, a leading feminist and expert in ancient history ...

Mary Louise Carrington Beard, 83, died on February 11, 2012 after a seven-month battle with pancreatic cancer. Mary Lou was born in Newark, New Jersey, on March 11, 1928 to Kenneth E. and Louise ...

I thought that I would celebrate the BBC repeating the old 1970s series of I, Claudius (with Derek Jacobi and Sian Phillips etc) by re-reading Robert Graves’s original novels — I, Claudius and ...

Historian Mary Beard is to fund scholarships for two disadvantaged students to study classics at Cambridge University, as a "retirement present". The Cambridge professor is stepping down next year ...