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1_MARY BEARD

1_MARY BEARD

Beard graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree. As was traditional, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts (MA Cantab) degree. She remained at Cambridge for her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree, completing it in 1982 with a doctoral thesis titled The State Religion in the Late Roman Republic: A Study Based on the Works of Cicero.

Between 1979 and 1983, Beard lectured in classics at King’s College, London; she returned to Cambridge in 1984 as a Fellow of Newnham College and the only female lecturer in the classics faculty. The  book Rome in the Late Republic, which she co-wrote with Cambridge historian Michael Crawford, was published the following year.

John Sturrock, classics editor of The Times Literary Supplement, approached her for a review and brought her into literary journalism. Beard took over his role in 1992 at the request of Ferdinand Mount.

The above examples show that I research my sources. I trust them because they do exactly what I do. They research their sources and their sources are all listed in their works.

There are a multitude of other sources that I trust, including: societies, foundations, bloggers, u-tubers, researchers, historians, scientists and others.

History Time, The Histocrat, World of antiquity, History for granite, Made in history,  Fall of civilizations.