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,” ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beard is a classicist and the author, most recently, of Twelve Caesars: Images of Power from the Ancient World to the Modern Artists have failed to depict a complete set of Roman empresses, but we can ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...