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The Roman Society at the Senate House History Day, 2019. The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies (The Roman Society) was founded in 1910 [1] as the sister society to the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies. The Society is the leading organisation in the United Kingdom for those interested in the study of Rome and the Roman Empire.
Journal of Roman Studies 83 (1993): 48–74." ‘The contagion of the throng’: absorbing violence in the Roman world." The European Review 5 (1997): 401–17, reprinted with additional plates in Hermathena 164 (1998): 65–88. "Martial Book 8 and the politics of AD 93." Proceedings of the Leeds International Latin Seminar 10 (1998): 337–57.
Britannia is an annual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.It was established in 1970 and the first editor-in-chief was Sheppard Frere. [1]
The Society maintains the Joint Library, in conjunction with the Roman Society, which is integrated into a Combined Library with that of the Institute of Classical Studies. The Society arranges an annual lecture series in London, conferences, receptions and other meetings, and helps to arrange other lectures all around the UK in collaboration ...
Adrian Nicolas Sherwin-White, FBA (10 August 1911 – 1 November 1993) was a British academic and ancient historian.He was a fellow of St John's College, University of Oxford and President of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies.
He gave the Rhind Lectures in 1905 and 1907, on Roman Britain. [citation needed] Haverfield is credited as playing a prominent role in creation of both the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies and the British School at Rome. [10] He was on the governing body of Abingdon School from 1907 to 1919 and was a supporter of the school. [11]
He was a member of the American Philosophical Society, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honorary member of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute and a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Three universities awarded him honorary LL.D. degrees ...
His research was primarily in Roman History. [5] In 1940, he was elected Junior Proctor of Oxford University; serving from March 1940 to March 1941. [6] In 1956, he was a candidate for the Rectorship of Exeter College, but lost out to Kenneth Wheare. [1] He served as president of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies from 1968 to 1971. [1]