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This is the first book to explore the history of ancient Greek and Roman influences and reception in England's North East, topics which have often transcended social boundaries dictated by working identity, class, religion, gender, and ethnicity.
Together, the chapters cover a broad range of themes and topics from architecture, theatre, working-class education, poetry, post-war novels and Hadrian's Wall. Each section, taken as a whole, views the specific topic from complementary social angles encompassing discrete social classes and constituencies but always remaining aware of the experience of non-elites. United in a Classical Reception Studies approach, contributors draw on a variety of materials such as archives, institutional records, oral history, magazines, antiquarian journals, newspapers, video- and audio-recordings, television, photographs, engravings, paintings, drawings, school textbooks, guidebooks, the fabric of buildings, poetry, and fiction to show how modern identities are informed by the Greek and Roman past.
This pioneering and richly illustrated study of Classical Reception from a local-historical perspective is of interest to students and scholars working in Classics and the social, cultural, intellectual, and local history of England.
Contents
1. Introduction - The Editors; I. INSTITUTIONS AND EDUCATION; 2. The Northumberland and Durham Classical Association, from 1912 onwards - Jennifer Ingleheart; 3. Spennymoor Classics: Tales from the Pit University - Henry Stead; 4. Hadrian in hiding? Investigating access to Classics education in the North East of England - Arlene Holmes-Henderson and Laura Hope; II. CLASSICS FOR AND BY THE PEOPLE; 5. Stories of Marsden: Roman Remains, Revolution and the Rights of Man - Lilah Grace Canevaro and Mirko Canevaro; 6. A Historical Pageant, the People's Theatre and the North-East: Amateur Theatre and the Classical World in 1930s Newcastle - Rory McInnes-Gibbons; 7. A Communist on the Wall: Frank Graham in the Days of the Romans - Matthew Kilburn; III. ARCHITECTURE AND ART; 8. Temples of Knowledge: The Classical Architecture of Public Libraries and Mechanics' Institutes in North-East England 1668-1939 - Richard Pears; 9. Keystones and Social Identity in the Classical Architecture of Newcastle and Northumberland - Edmund Thomas; 10. Presenting Claudia: a Roman Princess in Newcastle Cathedral - Cora Beth Fraser; IV. MUSA AELIANA; 11. Teesside Novelists' Ancient Underclass: Barry Unsworth and Pat Barker - Edith Hall; 12. Classics and Identity in Poetry of the North East - Edith Hall; 13. Connecting Things - Maureen Almond; V. WALL STORIES; 14. The Wall and its Saviour; 19th-Century Discovery and Study of Hadrian's Wall by John Clayton - Frances McIntosh; 15. Oxford Classics on the Roman frontier: Eric Birley and the Legacy of Francis Haverfield - Martha Lovell Stewart; 16. The commemoration of Hadrian's Wall in cultural events since 2000 - Richard Hingley.
