St Edward's Super Curriculum

FOR THE HISTORIANS, CLASSICISTS AND POLITICIANS

Budding historians and politicians also enjoyed a rich variety of talks. The Lyne Society, run by the Classics Department, welcomed Dr Ed Bispham from Oxford University and Professor Paul Cartledge from Cambridge University for lectures on the ancient world, while the History Department hosted Professor David Carpenter from King’s College London In residence during the spring, Dr Christopher Burden-Strevens from the University of Kent led a series of sessions on Classics. Drawing thought provoking links to modern politics, his keynote lecture on immigration and xenophobia in Julius Caesar’s Rome ‘was a great opportunity for us to reflect on the parallels we can find in societies separated across millennia’ said Bay Sherwood, Lower Sixth pupil. Further highlights included a lecture during which politics pupils were challenged by Professor Freya Baetens from the University of Oxford, who discussed the growing backlash to the European Convention on Human Rights. who spoke on the Magna Carta’s historical and legal significance.

‘ A great

opportunity for us to reflect on the parallels we can find in societies separated across millennia ’ Bay Sherwood, Lower Sixth pupil

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