The Lincolnshire Classical Association

 

Branch contact: All enquiries to Jamie Wood (jwood@lincoln.ac.uk)
Branch membership: £10 per year. Talks free to national CA members, students,
teachers, and university staff (visitors: £4).​

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For our final talk of 2025, we are very pleased to welcome Dr James Corke-Webster, a Classicist and Ancient Historian from King's College London, to talk to us about "Fowl Play: An Antique Murder Mystery on the Isle of Wight" on Monday 8th December.  

Further details: This joint talk of to the Historical and Classical Association branches will take place on Monday 8th December 2025 at 6.15pm, with refreshments beforehand and questions afterwards. It will take place on the University of Lincoln’s Brayford Pool campus (MB0302, Cargill Lecture theatre, Minerva Building).

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/3hyt3ycb

Abstract: This talk explores the strangest known mosaic in the Roman world: an image of a man with the head of a chicken at Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight. This image has attracted a dizzying range of explanations since its discovery in 1879 – alas, almost all wrong(-headed). It therefore offers an opportunity for a detective trail that will take us to some of the oddest – and most sinister – corners of the Roman world. 

All welcome - please spread the word!​