Born on New Year’s Day in 1955 in Much Wenlock, Shropshire, Dame Mary Beard began her academic career studying classics at ...

Bust of roman emperor Domitian in the Louvre Museum in Paris (Wikimedia Commons). As much historiography as it is history, Mary Beard’s Emperor of Rome is monumental: intricately detailed, ...

It’s fun – I like it,” says Dame Mary Beard of Taylor Swift’s “Cassandra”. The world’s most famous classicist may not be a Swiftie, but she is delighted that one of today’s biggest pop stars has named ...

The classicist Mary Beard examines the excesses and tedium of imperial rule, sorting fact from gossip and tall tales. By Jennifer Szalai When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our ...

‘Pax’ is the third book from historian Tom Holland’s extensive bibliography to receive an exclusive luxury edition courtesy ...