Dame Mary Beard's celebrated status as the font of all knowledge on all things ancient Rome is a long way from her roots in a ...

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 ...

Dame Mary Beard has claimed that Cambridge University is better off without 'thicko' rugby players from her day. The revered classicist and art historian believes that Cambridge has been 'transformed ...

A sequence of songs and arias for voice and lute, devised by and featuring soprano Nardus Williams, classicist and historian Dame Mary Beard and lutenist Elizabeth ...