Tag: renaissance

Report from History Trip to Italy

At the end of March, students from History as well as other courses in Humanities visited Rome, Naples and Pompeii over six days. The weather was kind to us as we averaged between twenty to thirty-thousand steps per…

Studying the Renaissance at A-Level and as an Undergraduate

Just a few weeks ago, the students in my first-year survey class were deep into an extract from Niccolò Machiavelli’s famous work, The Prince. First printed in 1532, although available in manuscript much earlier than that, The Prince…