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Gopal is a relatively minor academic, and her opinion is irrelevant in comparison to Mary Beard's notoriety. Are we just quoting any old Tom Dick or Mohammad these days? It's also terribly sourced! Sort it out. Call your selves encaeclopaedians?! This led to widespread criticism, in which Mary Beard
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There's no doubt they are different people, just from their vital stats: iirc, their years alive don't even overlap, and the earlier one would presumably have to have passed the surname via a chain of male Beards, constituting one or more generations, one of whom immigrated ("back") to the UK. And
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archive - class lists were published in the national newspapers in those days - she achieved a First in both parts of the classics tripos, Part I in 1975 and Part II in 1977 (one year Part I and two year Part II then, I guess; these days there are Parts IA, IB and II). In the main, batchelors
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It says she remained in Cambridge till 1982. Then says she was in London from 1979. I guess she graduated in 1976, spend 3 yrs in Cambridge studying for her PhD then 3 years working in London while writing it up in her spare time. Please clarify.
863:-oriented Latin studies. Her writing a book about the Roman republic with Crawford (who had serious credentials of his own in this field) at age 30, to begin there, would not have happened if she had not been a certified classical scholar. 877:
I realise that this is 2 1/2 years late, but in case anyone else is confused by this and comes to the talkpage looking for clarity, Beard presumably studied classics for both Part I and II of Tripos, but she didn't get a BA
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degrees at Cambridge are not "in" a subject (with a few exceptions, such as the BTh and MB, and the old BEd), and almost everyone gets a BA, but you could say that she read classics at Cambridge, achieved a
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a genetic (or adoptive) relationship is foolish, but it sure would be nice to have a (not necessarily bibliographic) note tracing the Brit, via a chain of male Beards, back to one who was a contemporary of
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Which all-female direct grant school? Beard commented that she was not keen on the boys from Shrewsbury School, when interviewed on Radio4's Desert Island Discs. Why Shrewsbury School? Was it nearby?
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anything. Cambridge University's bizarre system only offers one Bachelor's degree: everybody graduates with simply a "BA (Hons)" (or, rarely, a "BA (Ordinary)" – no subject is specified.
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It can pretty much be taken for granted that it was; she has pursued the field of classics in academic and popularizing writing ever since, and she's clearly not specializing in
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and graduated with a BA(Hons) in 1977. I've not checked, but no doubt she moved up to an MA three or so years later.
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both are historians, consciously concerned about the status of women, and married to academics in history. Anyone who
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Include material on extensive American and Italian connections. How many languages does she speak - etc
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can be presumed to be in the right place. The only redirect is currently from
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It says in the article that, "Beard attended an all-female direct grant school"
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I was initially confused as to what relation Mary Beard had to
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This was interesting. I didn't know about her before.
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The article has since been edited to include details.
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