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The Language Crisis HEPI Report
In August 2025, the Higher Education Policy Institute published a report; The Language Crisis: Arresting decline, authored by classicist Megan Bowler. You can read the HEPI report in full here This report found that just...
A Trip to Parliament
Sophie Johns, CA intern, describes attending the CA’s #CelebratingClassics reception at the Houses of Parliament this September. For a recent graduate juggling job applications and the prospect of living with her parents again after...
Mythology Competition 2025
We received so many wonderful entries in our 2025 Mythology Competition. Previously known as the Minimus Mythology Competition run by the Primary Latin Project, this year, it was brought under the aegis of the Classical...
A Manifesto for Today
Paige Dewbrey Winner of our 2025 Write | Speak | Design Competition, Paige is a student from the US, who delivered the following manifesto in response to the question ‘Why is Classics important?’ Against...
In Memoriam: Barbara Finney
Author: Lindsey Davis We are saddened to report the death of Barbara Finney (1941-2024), former Vice President and Officer of the Classical Association. Barbara was a secondary school teacher, an examiner and a...
Persephone’s Poets
The winners in our 2024 Poetry Competition certainly brought their A game in translation and delighted us with their creative flair for original compositions. Writers took us on an emotional rollercoaster from the...
In Memory: Prof. Richard Seaford
AUTHOR: Lorem Ipsum It was with great sadness that the Association learned of the death of Richard Seaford, Professor Emeritus of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Richard was President of...
A Special Recognition
READ TIME: 10 MINS We are delighted that our very own Outreach Officer and Chair of the Classics Development Group, Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson, has been made an MBE by King Charles III for Services...
What does the CA mean to you?
READ TIME: 10 MINS 2023 marks 120 years of the Classical Association and we’re taking this opportunity to reflect upon some of our work to widen access to classical subjects over the past century:...
Around the UK in eighty days!
It’s been a busy start to the new academic year as CA branches across England and Wales have welcomed audiences to a variety of events this autumn – from podcaster Tristan Hughes’ visit...