A reminder that the British Museum’s Pompeii and Herculaneum exhibition, which I’m pretty sure all of us are going to want to go see, just opened today:
Telling the human story of Pompeii and Herculaneum
As the self-appointed ResGerendae museum reviewer, I will certainly be visiting in the near future and sharing my thoughts, so watch this space!
To celebrate this glorious/inauspicious day (depending on your Roman political stance), some wonderful Victorian and early-20th-century advertisments for how to avoid ending up like Julius Caesar from the British Newspaper Archive:
http://blog.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/2013/03/15/the-ides-of-march-and-scotch-whisky/
If only Caesar had had some Scotch whisky with him, history would have been very different.
