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New Novel

Edith has written her first work of fiction, provisionally entitled Survivors’ Septet, which explores how the younger generation of the House of Atreus tried to recover from the…

 

Prison Education Fundraiser

Edith has launched a campaign to raise £20,000 to fund the continuation of her initiative to teach ancient thought and civilisation in UK prisons: https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/ace-in-prisons

 

International Hellenic Prize

Edith’s 2024 monograph Facing down the Furies: Suicide, the Ancient Greeks, and Me won the International Hellenic Prize, awarded in Athens in February 2026.

 

Edith Hall was Principal Investigator on the research project Classics and Class in Great Britain and Ireland with Dr Henry Stead.

www.routledge.com

 Their prizewinning monograph, A People’s History of Classics, is now available free on the Routledge Taylor Francis platform at https://www.routledge.com/A-Peoples-History-of-Classics-Class-and-Greco-Roman-Antiquity-in-Britain/Hall-Stead/p/book/9780367432362 The project website contains arresting accounts of working-class struggles to…