Dame Mary Beard said train staff did nothing to “help” her when she was raped while travelling Italy as a graduate student. The renowned classicist said that she went travelling after leaving the ...

Following an extraordinary week in politics, Professor Mary Beard has suggested members of the cabinet “behave like little boys who need their bottoms spanked.” The historian was speaking at Women in ...

Cambridge classics professor Mary Beard's latest book, Confronting the Classics, takes a gleefully contrarian approach to marble-bust greats like... Early on in Confronting the Classics, Mary Beard ...

Professor Mary Beard looks beyond the stories of emperors, armies, guts and gore to meet the everyday people at the heart of Ancient Rome's vast empire.

A Cambridge University professor says she had to strip down to her “scrappy undies” while going through airport security. Classics Professor Mary Beard took to social media on Wednesday to expose the ...

In this four-part series classicist and historian, Professor Mary Beard draws on her immense scholarship, unique viewpoints and myth-busting approach to Roman history, to give her definitive take on ...

Chatting to classicist Dame Mary Beard makes you incredibly jealous of all the students who had her as their professor at Cambridge University. Thoroughly engaging, her hands flying thoughtfully as ...

Dame Mary Beard has claimed that Cambridge University is better off without 'thicko' rugby players from her day. The revered classicist and art historian believes that Cambridge has been 'transformed ...

Classics professor Mary Beard, author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, joins Christopher John Farley for a conversation about her new book, as well as a look at how Roman times speak to today.

This has been my college office for a decade and I’m here most of the week – I love the light and its slightly faded Victorian feel. I keep this pair of photos of me aged about three with my mum and ...

17:28, Mon, Oct 13, 2025 Updated: 17:39, Mon, Oct 13, 2025 Dame Professor Mary Beard has said that the University of Cambridge is smarter now than in previous years after rugby players were "excluded" ...