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1_MARY BEARD

1_MARY BEARD

Beard graduated from Cambridge with a Bachelor of Arts(opens in new tab) (BA) degree. As was traditional, her BA was later promoted to a Master of Arts(opens in new tab) (MA Cantab) degree. She remained at Cambridge for her Doctor of Philosophy (PhD(opens in new tab)) degree, completing it in 1982 with a doctoral thesis(opens in new tab) 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(opens in new tab); 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(opens in new tab), was published the following year.

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

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.