Charles Sturge @CharlesJSturge Twitter profile

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

@ZareerMasani No, why should it be? Unlike other degrees, the basic criterion for a doctorate, whether at Oxford or a "back street poly" remains consistent: an original contribution to knowledge. I see no reason why such at Oxford works be inherently better.

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Today's hot take: The Neolithic is far more important in human history than the 'classical' period.

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@DrStevenCollins Why do you promote looting? You're a foreign archaeologist working as a guest in a foreign country, and you just allow anyone to walk off with artefacts? Just wow.

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@AJRichardsonMP When my father died, I didn't see him or go to the funeral because of the risk to others' lives. Can you an MP tell me why I had to go through that, but Cummings could move as he liked. I challenge you to. Of course you won't because people like you are scared of the question

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Charles Sturge

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@ZareerMasani Could you clarify why your "d.phil" is better? Or are you just relying on "Oxford" to do that work for you? You see, most properly educated people would evaluate research by its content, rather than where it was done. Perhaps you don't?

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4 years

When Classicists suggest that Archaeologists are just failed philologists, my thought is just that philologists are people who limited themselves to less than 1% of the available data. ;)

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2 years

@losingnow @esaagar Lol, American just can't survive without its ice, how cute .

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10 months

@The_Real_Joakim @DalrympleWill @nine_miles_wide Hi Kim, do you extend this logic to the Palestinian victims of the Nakba? How would you react if Palestinians removed Jewish residents in stolen villages by force?

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

@ZareerMasani Zareer, why is yours better?

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Charles Sturge

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6 years

Late Mycenaean fortification walls at Tiryns. Gorgeous stuff....still remarkable 3000 years later. #archaeology #prehistory #wallporn #walls #history #fortification #argolid #greece #masonry #buildings #mycenaean

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@EllStats Hi Ell, so to confirm you think China should invade a sovereign country because of it being founded in a civil war, and that it's wrong to think that's bad?

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Charles Sturge

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11 months

@Ben_Wisden By far the best innings of the tournament. Doubt it will be topped to be honest.

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

@Bushra1Shaikh You choose your religion. You don't choose your sexuality. Thus, you can believe what you like in private, but your religious choice has no place in determining equality law in society. Any society that criminalises homosexuality is backward.

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@RogerSm95261997 @JolyonMaugham Let's be honest mate, you probably didn't go to many museums until 'statchoos' tickled your nationalism.

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1 year

@ZareerMasani How do you know if it is "jumped up" if you haven't read it?

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1 year

@ZareerMasani I see. Do you think such logic would fly in an Oxford examination?

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5 months

@tomhfh Time to withold all weapons to israel.

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3 years

@stelpavlou Probably because grifting hobbyists like you make shows which imply anyone can have a theory and expertise without training.

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Charles Sturge

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9 months

@anon_opin Archaeologist here: wouldn't be had my parents not spent my childhood, from a very young age, taking me to all sorts of interesting sites in the UK and abroad.

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Charles Sturge

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11 months

This is apparently in some sectors of "Classics" a controversial opinion these days. If you can't linguistically access large chunks of the area you propose to research, then it shouldn't be the area you research.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele

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11 months

When supervising MA students at Ghent, I always warned them that they should not do a dissertation in Ancient History if they could not read German. Otherwise they'd be at risk of missing out vast chunks of literature, and might end up reinventing the wheel.

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Charles Sturge

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@CaitlynBBS It's poorly written, but the preceding paragraph adds the nuance that this is not a random opinion, but rather a contrast based on the author's reading of sources in two different time periods. I'd like more citation, but I don't know the audience it's written for.

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

@mualphaxi @X You took one year of Classical Greek in College. OK. Where did that get you to?

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

3 years

Apparently this guy allows looting at his site. That's ethical.

Dr. Steven Collins

@DrStevenCollins

3 years

We have a huge pile of cast-off sherds at the base of our site (the pottery dump). Our volunteers take some as souvenirs. Tourists take some, too. They're free and we have them by the ton. Boslough's comment is just a mean (and stupid) thing to say.

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

Someone let @FlintDibble loose on the grill, here at Knossos, centre of the universe. Feasting awaits, even without conical cups.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

6 years

Early morning light onthe Erechtheion justifies the early start to the day. @ASCSAthens tour of Archaic remains on the Acropolis. (Foundations in foreground) #acropolis #Athens #archaeology #greece #buildings #temple #religion #history #light #mornings

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Charles Sturge

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6 months

@NetanelWorthy @piersmorgan Why should we trust Israel's "Department of Defense"?

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@CorbynistaTeen There are many problems right now, but further division on the left simply lets the Tories in. We need vote reform, and a clear message to rejoin the EU, and punish the Brexiteers for their lies.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

4 years

@UKDemockery @Keir_Starmer - let him play the long game here - Johnson is fucking up big time here, this is the time for us in Labour to be quiet, 'national interest' and let him destroy himself. Keir is a Barrister - he knows exactly when to pounce. Trust him.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

So, can you write a PhD thesis up from scratch in 9 months? Guess I'm about to find out.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

Wouldn't it be nice if 'Classics' didn't just hire 90% of its people from the same 8 or so departments? Or would this threaten the tedious reproduction of the field? All that intellectual and social diversity it throws away. #classicstwitter

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2 years

@WisdenCricket But nor is it obligated to think how the BCCI and its players do.

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2 years

@TommyRobinsonNS @OwenJones84 @HalimaNyomi Oh look it's tommy fake name thicko again. How's it going Tommeh? Jeopardized any other trials recently?

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2 years

@CSMFHT A Classics degree that excludes archaeology, archaeological methods and trainings and overemphasises literary evidence is not worthy of the name.

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2 years

@Graham__Hancock Nobody has said it is racist, or that you are racist. It does, however, enable racists buying into the idea that non-white people couldn't have built things like the pyramids etc and invoking aliens, mystery cultures for which there is no evidence etc.

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Charles Sturge

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4 years

@cricket_kaka @Fancricket12 I'd rather my spearhead took 6-100 in 20 overs than 1-100 in 40

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

@The_W_Coleman @mualphaxi Says a man too stupid to learn Greek, Latin or read any Classical texts themselves. Coleman - get educated, then you can talk, there's a good little boy.

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Charles Sturge

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7 months

@EllStats Anyhow, explain what the relevance of the comparison is, unless somehow to undermine supporting an independent Taiwan? You're supposed to be a historian, so think - if Confederacy = bad, then what's the implication of a Taiwan = Confederacy?

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Charles Sturge

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10 months

@Aamin_Marritza @The_Real_Joakim @DalrympleWill @nine_miles_wide Ok, so what term would we use for Palestinians evicting Jewish residents of former Palestinian villages?

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Charles Sturge

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4 years

@holland_tom Just wait till Johnson suggests things be named after him for how well he's handled the pandemic.

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Charles Sturge

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3 months

The funniest part @Graham__Hancock attacking @FlintDibble with falsities 2 months after being embarrassed in a debate with him is the fact he couldn't prepare all these attacks in the year or so he had to prepare for the debate. What arrogance.

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Charles Sturge

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4 months

@TylerKatzen @UWMadison Why are the paramilitary/fascist looking police using so much force in arresting a very harmless looking man? Are they cowards like so many are in those uniforms?

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

@johnsweeneyroar Are we really posting conspiracy theories on the day the verdict was handed down?

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Charles Sturge

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7 months

@BullyWatchUK So to interpret the ad: 1. Kilo is out of control and lunges at random people. 2. Kilo destroys shit for fun. 3. Kilo is a danger to children. 4. Kilo has a history of fighting. 5. Kilo would kill a cat. 6. Kilo would knoc you over for fun Sounds like an ideal "family pet"

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@nicktolhurst Perhaps he's adding taxpayer funded Ukrainian lessons to those taxpayer funded Polish lessons, despite already speaking Polish (apparently) and needs the extra time.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@LeftieStats Wild hyperbole. Johnson literally left number 10 last year.

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1 year

@mualphaxi Homer wasn't always ancient, and his characters are often petty, mean spirited, violent and unpleasant. I think the idea of heroism in Homer is quite far from most modern views of heroism. But I get the feeling you haven't actually read Homer, just enough to rant on here badly.

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@smartnoggin I love it when pseudos like you have public meltdowns. Looking forward to your encore, how much are tickets?

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2 years

@WisdenCricket @cricbuzz India are free to drop out.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@Shiwon_NZ_Ao @wagamama_uk Well, next time I have norovirus or something else highly infectious and need something to eat I guess @wagamama_uk wouldn't mind if I popped in for a meal. Oh wait, I'm not in the business of infecting other people.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@DrTraceyK @PhDVoice @career_re @PostdocVoice This just reinforces pointless hierarchy. If someone writes to you with their first name, that's an invitation to use it, if they don't want people to, they can sign 'dr x y z.

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@stelpavlou Really it's dropping because of me? I'm just a dude on Twitter, and not some unqualified grifter making crap pseudoarchaeological TV shows. Suffice to say if I grifted into that position I'd make shows about real archaeology and not speculative fictional crap.

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

What is the point of the plagiarism warnings we give undergrad students, when you find out that a PhD candidate you knew a few years back who routinely cheated, was caught and reported, was allowed to continue their studies, but handed material and is on the way to graduation?

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@snb19692 That's because flags are not flown at half mast during the proclamation. Google helps.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@JacquelynGill I think we should make our writing much more accessible, and that all research should be publically accessible. The paywall culture of academia hurts us a lot.

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

@nuktacheenii @willis_macp Yes definitely, it's such a racist agenda against Indians they made the Indian overseas player their captain, and then all deliberately misbehaved specifically so he could miss one match at the end of the season. What a perceptive genius you are.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@welivininhell @badinchase @jackwagner129 @Jomboy_ yes, and only stupid or uneducated people do it. They should get life bans and stop spoiling things for the civilized people.

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Charles Sturge

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11 months

@LeftieStats Hi Ell, Hamas have never lied, is that correct?

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

7 months

@MLS_AfterDark @reformussoccer Which MLS teams are "insanely successful"? I'd rather live in a world where success isn't to do with "brand size", or tht teams weren't viewed as "brands". But then what can one say, the entire US model is based on "franchises" not teams.

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Charles Sturge

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5 years

@jonlansman Perhaps if you hadn't spent the last few months trying to incite a Party civil war we'd be in better shape to oppose this.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@Graham__Hancock Anyhow, when you provide some pottery from your magic culture, I'll listen. But you can't, because it doesn't exist.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@michaelgove How much coke did you take? How much did you offer?

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

4 years

@classicsforall @RoseberysLtd @kallosgallery @stephenfry @profmcscott This is unacceptable. Classics for all has done a lot of good, but you CANNOT be taking profit from dubious antiquities. Perhaps your definition of Classics does not include material objects, but real Classics does. Turn round NOW.

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Charles Sturge

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2 months

@mikeportsmouth This is what happens when our society normalises keeping vicious dogs that are genetically predisposed to aggression.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

11 months

@CricketKaran1 Mainly because 2019 a.) wasn't shambolically organised and b.) not hijacked by a political party handing out free tickets, etc.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

Allegedly, my PhD will be submitted 12 months from today. From where I'm looking, that's the best joke I've heard all week. Still, ambitions, right?

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@mokersel @DrStevenCollins And let's face it, even if this 'Christian' thinks he's above Jordanian law, 'thou shalt not steal' pretty much covers it.

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Charles Sturge

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7 months

@AdrianMark48965 @Jerusalem_Post Ah I see you've discovered the concept of "Lebensraum". Fascinating.

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

@J2000_AB @klockwerkluka @Jeffs_behaviour @UAlberta Yes, actually. Theses and dissertations are a fundamental part of what makes a University a University.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

11 months

@holland_tom Greeks generally dislike colonialism and oppression. Just a thought.

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@CharlesJSturge

1 year

@cfo_antifa @The_W_Coleman @mualphaxi It's odd isn't it. He wouldn't trust a woman's translation, but he is in no position to trust any translation because he can't access the original. Are we really suggesting that a major publisher would publish a translation that was thoroughly incorrect. Or are we just a sexist.

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1 year

@DiopterF3 @JoeBiden @BarackObama Well, the obvious solution is just to get a proper healthcare system like all the better countries have.

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@CharlesJSturge

1 year

@UKLabour As the @BarristerSecret pointed out, while this is a good idea in principle, how do you enforce it in practice? What would you do, for instance, if a murderer, forced into court, spent the entire time mocking, abusing, or threatening the family of their victim?

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@OnTheWoolsack It's because Business graduates and the other sort of people that studied non-academic fields and then go into 'PR' or 'Advertising' or 'Consultancy' etc are scared by things like books or latin.

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1 year

@weirdlilguys Mine would straight up maul me.

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Charles Sturge

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6 months

@CharlotteCGill Hi Charlotte, I'll ask the same two questions again: 1. What % of the UK budget does this represent 2. What kinds of project do you think should be funded. Or do you think all history, archaeology, classical studies, philosophy, social sciences, etc should just be cut?

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

4 years

@ArwenRimmer @PaoloAPalma @TanaDJoseph 100% not the point.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

5 years

Gloomy day at Corinth. Bad for excavators, good for those working in the museum and moody photography. End of first week of @ASCSAthens excavations for 2019. #Greece #ClassicsTwitter #archaeology #corinth #ancienthistory #Temple #photography #mood #Rain #clouds #ancient

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Charles Sturge

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4 years

I wonder if @FlintDibble thinks this is a good method for removing statues of slave traders?

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@wmarybeard It is a pity that people cannot read it because of the paywall...especially if you're quoting people.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

4 years

@AJRichardsonMP Come on @AJRichardsonMP tell me, to my face, how I am going to move on. Happy to DM you my Zoom, Skype etc. You won't of course, because you are a coward.

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

Say it with me slowly The 'Minoans' are not real. Minoan is an invented term to describe a set of stylistic/cultural attributes, and we have no firm idea how the users of these objects related ethnically/culturally to one another. #minoan #prehistory #huntingatlantis #archaeology

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Charles Sturge

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4 years

@GingerGooner @BeckyUlliott @iriselks @europabridge1 So your solution is that instead of going to institutions of learning in some case near 1000 years old people should learn how to kill people and incidentally study stuff? Cool story mate.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

2 years

@CNN Intense nepotism rewards a lack of talent.

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Charles Sturge

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11 months

@wavyphd The Iliad might be fiction. But it's an incredibly valuable source for social history, and wider questions about Greek identity later on, so well worth reading.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

2 years

@Colonus_ @MetalClassicist Most classics courses fail to teach a proper narrative/sequential series, starting with Prehistory through Late Antiquity.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

2 months

No wonder @Graham__Hancock has been salty recently, @FlintDibble ;) Which contient do we think the next series of the griftathon will be filmed on instead?

Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse scraps US filming plans after outcry from Native American groups

Hit show’s British host Graham Hancock has been criticized for promoting fringe beliefs about advanced lost civilization

www.theguardian.com

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@wmarybeard You're not a bad person - you're a brillliant scholar, and your lectures taught me so much when I was an undergraduate. But you - and all the BM trustees - have made a terrible mistake here.

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Charles Sturge

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1 year

Stuff like this is irresponsible - that's a big claim, which - for Greece at least - requires a lot of thought and evaluation of evidence. Throwing it out in a single sentence to a mass audience in an interview which jumps all over the place is really bad form.

History Press Local

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On the Spot: Bettany Hughes. What historical topic have I changed my mind on? I thought the sacrifice of young women in the Bronze Age was a myth. It wasn’t (via @HistoryToday ) #BronzeAge #History

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Charles Sturge

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@SarahEBond @argyris2009 @EgyptianMuseumC For all their faults the disconnect between Roman citizenship and ethnic origin is one of the most important lessons for us today in a world of increasing ethno nationalism.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

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@NadineDorries @icelandrichard HI Nadine, at least he hasn't shamed the country through his dishonesty and poor behaviour in public office that they couldn't give him a peerage. You, drunkenly, did.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@and_cities @PhDVoice My non-teaching calendar is nobody else's business. I will let people know on enquiry what I am up to, if I think they need to know.

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Charles Sturge

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4 years

@Cellularlinks @NateSilver538 The MBA isn't a real degree and should be abolished. Business is not an academic or intellectual field.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@Stas_Wild @PhDVoice @PostdocVoice What leads you to the conclusion that doing non natural science research is not a full time job?

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1 year

@BullyWatchUK @WMPolice Why hasn't the dog been destroyed?

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@shamshi_adad People get 'Classics' degrees *only* engaging with the original texts, and ignoring the material or visual culture of these cultures, yet nobody finds this odd. Perhaps it's time to redress this balance, and have less language and more material/visual culture?

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Charles Sturge

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7 months

@Jacob_Rees_Mogg Rees-Mogged. Pretty much describes your typical performance in the Commons too.

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3 years

@wmarybeard @UllaMR @tellaboutcoins Mary, why would you vote for someone who actively cut funding for UK heritage. It's disgraceful.

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Charles Sturge

@CharlesJSturge

11 months

@andrewnixon79 50% of the comms in this tournament have literally no idea what they're talking about, and just spout platitudes and cliches. It's appalling.

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Charles Sturge

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3 years

@J_Lee_Graves @sentantiq @smartnoggin @FlintDibble @ArchaeoHermes @stelpavlou @Discovery The story is fiction. Plato literally made it up. So no, there is no 'basis' for it. And I'm not sure what 'lost history' searching for Atlantis has revealed.

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Charles Sturge

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2 years

@Jonny_MCFC_7 @amirahayatx Wow, Jonny has it all. Subtle racism, football logo, terrible grammar. It must be hard being Jonny.

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