Off to the Citz this afternoon for Othello, which bizarrely I don't think I've ever seen on stage before. Aiming to get home before the anthropophagi, and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, start to turn out for Saturday night.

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Doing some belated homework, I came across this portait of the actor and abolitionist Ira Aldridge in the title role in 1826, which I hadn't encountered but does make me want to see his take on the part.

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nice light at Stonehenge this afternoon

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We had a full @uclarchaeology.bsky.social lecture theatre last night when we welcomed @chrisbstringer.bsky.social with the brilliant @radicalanthro.bsky.social. Chris revisited his 1993 book, with Clive Gamble, In search of the Neanderthals. Now 30 years on things are so much more complex. 🦣🏺

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They also span half a century in time. Each book reflects language then widely considered appropriate for the time and the age group. No more narrow or particular than anything else …

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