Join @wmarybeard.bsky.social at the British Museum as part of her #TalkingClassics tour as she discusses ancient history and its enduring relevance, from politics to pop culture.
📍 The British Museum
📅 Friday 1st May
🕡 6:30–7:30pm
🎟️ Via link below
My new book #TalkingClassics is 25% off RRP between now & 20 Feb. If you have already ordered, you can cancel & use this offer. Details: www.waterstones.com/book/talking...
Orange promotional poster titled “Mary Beard Talking Classics Book Tour”. Dates and venues listed: 14 March Words by the Water, Keswick (with Raph Cormack); 14 April University Central Hall, York (with Toppings York); 17 April signing at Heffers, Cambridge; 17 April Ely Cathedral (with Toppings Ely); 18 April Gloucester History Festival (with Janina Ramirez); 19 April Royal Geographical Society, London (with Peter Frankopan); 21 April Blake Theatre, Monmouth (with Rossiter Books); 22 April Pamoja Theatre, Kent (with Sevenoaks Bookshop); 23 April Stanwell School Hall, Penarth (with Griffin Books); 24 April Bath Pavilion (with Toppings Bath); 27 April St Mary’s Church, Nottingham (with Waterstones and Dr Mark Bradley); 1 May British Museum (with Tom Harrison). Features the “Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old” book cover, a circular photo of Mary Beard, a decorative Greek key border at the bottom, and Profile Books logo.
⚡️ NEW DATES ADDED! ⚡️
Join @wmarybeard.bsky.social for her #TalkingClassics tour this spring 🏛️ Get your links via the tickets below!
We are delighted to have so many titles included in the FT's guide to reading in 2026. Find out more about #HowAfricaWorks, #Ausländer, #EnoughSaid, #TalkingClassics, #ChildrenOfAbraham, #NoKingInIsrael and #ANimbleHistoryOfShortland at the link below 📚
www.ft.com/content/5de2...
'Our foremost classics scholar [...] casts new light on antiquity by finding parallels with the present day'
#TalkingClassics by @wmarybeard.bsky.social is a @telegraph.co.uk best book of 2026 ✨
A rectangular landscape graphic featuring a background photo of Pompeii. There is a ribbon in the top left corner that says, 'PRIZE DRAW'. The cover for Mary Beard's Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old is in the centre of the graphic, with a photo of Mary Beard in a circle to the right of this. The text in the bottom left-hand corner of the graphic reads, 'Entrants must be aged 18 or over. Entrants must be residents of Great Britain. Full terms and conditions apply'. The Waterstones logo is in the bottom right-hand corner.
Visit Pompeii with the one and only @wmarybeard.bsky.social...!
To celebrate the upcoming publication of #TalkingClassics, we're giving you the chance to win this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Simply pre-order through @waterstones.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/TalkingClassicsWaterstonesComp
An orange promotional graphic titled “MARY BEARD TALKING CLASSICS BOOK TOUR.” Below, tour dates are listed in white text: • 14th March – Words by the Water, Keswick with Raph Cormack • 14th April – University Central Hall, York with Toppings York • 17th April – Ely Cathedral with Toppings Ely • 19th April – Royal Geographical Society, London with FANE • 22nd April – Blake Theatre, Monmouth with Rossiter Books • 23rd April – Stanwell School Hall, Penarth with Griffin Books • 24th April – Bath Pavilion with Toppings Bath On the right, the book cover Mary Beard: Talking Classics – The Shock of the Old is displayed. A small circular photo shows Mary Beard. The Profile Books logo appears at the bottom.
We're pleased to announce that @wmarybeard.bsky.social is going on tour next spring with her brilliant new book #TalkingClassics ⚡️
Get your tickets via the links below! 🧵
What's exciting about a piece of bread 4,000 years old? Or pots of paint abandoned in the eruption at Pompeii? Why should we care about the distant past?
@wmarybeard.bsky.social returns with #TalkingClassics out April 2026.
Pre-order your signed edition here: tinyurl.com/TalkingClassicsWaterstones
I've got a new book out in spring #TalkingClassics: about why it's still worth bothering about ancient Greece and Rome. Now till Friday 17th Oct you can preorder through Waterstones. Enter OCTOBER25 at checkout & get 25% off RRP. #WPreorder tinyurl.com/TalkingClass...
A rectangular ecard with a red background. On the left-hand side is a holding cover for Mary Beard's new book Talking Classics: The Shock of the Old. On the right-hand side is a photo of Mary Beard in a circle frame. The Profile Books logo is in the bottom right-hand corner.
MARY BEARD RETURNS with #TalkingClassics, an exciting look at whether and why the Classics still matter.
Pre-order your signed edition from Waterstones now: tinyurl.com/TalkingClassicsSigned
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