Activities

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

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 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…

 

Edith is Leader of the campaign Advocating Classics Education, based at Durham University, which promotes the teaching of Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in the UK secondary state school sector.

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Edith is a regular TV and radio broadcaster, here interviewed by Margaret Mountford for the BBC in Athens Archaeological Museum

 

Edith is Honorary Patron of Northern Broadsides Theatre Company

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Edith is a Member of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles

 

Edith is Trustee and Former Chair (2006-2019) of the Gilbert Murray Trust.

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Edith is the recipient of a Goodwin Award of Merit (2015) from the American Classical Society for her book Adventures with Iphigenia in Tauris.

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It was shortlisted for the Criticos Prize and reviewed by Marina Warner in TLS 6/09/2013: Hall ‘calls us to rethink the very character and scope of tragedy’ https://classicalstudies.org/  

 

Edith is the Recipient of the 2015 Erasmus Prize of the European Academy in recognition of her contribution to international research

 

Edith is the recipient of a Humboldt Award 2012 for outstanding research

 

Edith nominated Prof. Froma Zeitlin in the RHUL ‘The Woman Who Inspired Her’ series 2011.

 

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