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Historian, University of St Andrews; Executive Chair, AHRC @ahrcpress; International Champion UKRI @UKRI_News All views (but none of the poetry!) my own.
Oct 24, 2021 14 tweets 13 min read
Some thoughts on how to make a better case for what #CreativeIndustries can offer....
@CreativeIndsUK @Creative_Fed

Ministers could limit student numbers on lower-earning arts degrees in England theguardian.com/education/2021… Debate is informed by Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data. But a) this is in flux
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and b) it excludes self-employed graduates
officeforstudents.org.uk/data-and-analy…
:who is not included in LEO data?
May 29, 2020 15 tweets 7 min read
1.Just a few scattered and inconclusive thoughts on @bernard_prof 's super thread. 2. It seems very difficult to exclude the exogenous impact of increased Mediterranean connectivity and resource availability. But we know we cannot think of ‘orientalizing’ in the old sense, esp after Riva and Vella. (PS Naso et al edited vol on this due 2021).
Feb 17, 2020 11 tweets 5 min read
So here is the best account I have seen of the (latest) tomb of Romulus
Roma, straordinaria scoperta al Foro: torna alla luce un ipogeo con sarcofago legato a culto di Rom… roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2020/0… via @repubblica Location is said to be under the stairs which Alfonso Bartoli constructed in front of the surviving Curia Julia, and here are some before and afters. Bartoli described his work in his book Curia Senatus: Lo scavo e il restauro