Richard Ashdowne
@RKAshdowne
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Linguist, classicist, lexicographer, aviator
Oxford
Joined July 2012
A breathtakingly talentless American 'musical' contribution to the Olympics closing ceremony. Unbelievable.
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RT @BritishAcademy_: Are you a researcher at a UK-based university? Language Acts and Worldmaking, based at King’s College London, is looki….
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RT @mrianleslie: The Ruffian has LANDED. This week's is about academic historians who are destroying their own discipline. .
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Academic historians are destroying their own discipline
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.@Stagecoach_Ox Second time this week that the 2110 s3 from Oxford has failed to show up, without any explanation or apology. Care to offer either?.
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The answer is in the question!
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The verdict is clear: Vietnamese people love coffee, but they don’t really seem to like Starbucks.
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RT @ProfKarolSikora: Many of those right at the top of Government designing and imposing lockdown policies had clearly made a judgement on….
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Taking advantage of the fine weather (at last!) for a brief sortie to Halfpenny Green
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RT @BritishAcademy_: 🧵(1/8) This new report from @HEPI_news adds to the growing bank of evidence demonstrating the enormous value of educat….
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A new report published today by the Higher Education Policy Institute and the Russell Group’s Pro-Vice-Chancellors / Deans of Arts and Humanities Network shows Humanities subjects are playing a major...
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Another delightful evening, this time in Univ welcoming back some of our students who finished their courses during the summer 2020 lockdown.
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RT @oxfordclassics: IN OUR TIME: SOLON THE LAWGIVER. 23 March 2023. Professor Bill Allan joins Melvyn Bragg and guests to discuss the state….
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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the statesman who transformed Athens in the 6th century BC
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RT @KPW1453: 12th century wall painting of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne in the Galilee Chapel at Durham Cathedral. Today is St. Cuthbert’s f….
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RT @AntigoneJournal: A question: the Ancient Greeks and Romans spoke Greek and Latin, so how important is it for Classicists to know Greek….
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WOLFGANG DE MELO On the value of translation.
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RT @LeVostreGC: Spydere Man, Spydere Man.Doth al things a spydere kan.Sondry webbes he kan weaven.Thieves lyke flyes he kan cacchen.Lo! ano….
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