Ben White

@zoe_s_fox Amazing, Zoe. Hope you settle in well and that this persistent grey sky clears for you. I’m back next week :)

New thread! Now that I’m IN ROME, I’ll tweet a photo per day of my trip! Day #1: in the BSR library- my first library access since March 12th, 2020!!!!!!!❤️📚❤️📚❤️📚 (I did NOT play it cool when I walked in)

Got very excited thinking about Spartacus, cipollino porticoes and venationes today. We had the arena completely to ourselves! Dinner with a (much longed for) sea breeze in Napoli topped it off 🌅 Sleepy train ride home now. Won’t be forgetting this one fast!

@ChrysaGallou Congrats, Chrysanthi 👏🎉😃

really pleased and honoured 🥰

My most difficult creative challenge, I present the #polychrome version of this ca. 50 AD Roman funerary relief, showing the deceased's pillow shop. *Many* thanks to @DrNWillburger for all her time and help on research and for the original image! #Uffizi #polychromy 1/

@zoe_s_fox Fingers crossed for you, Zoe 🤞

I’m going to start posting a photo of Rome every day until I get to go back in order to ~manifest~ my trip. Here is photo #1- my favorite corner ❤️

A falta de turistas, Via della Conciliazione se convierte en un fabuloso campo de fútbol para los más pequeños. #Roma #Vaticano #Italia #COVIDー19

Humbled and honoured to be a part of this excellent series. It was not long ago that I was a student on it! Do come along tomorrow if you’re free 😊

Auguri Roma! This morning I was treated to this wonderful perspective from the hanging door of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, now San Lorenzo in Miranda. Helpful for appreciating the sheer amount of earth uncovered over the centuries. It’s also a nice view.

@HelenLovatt2 Thanking you, Helen! Hope you are keeping well too : )

@benwhite9112 Sorry you’ve had a rough patch, glad you are feeling better!

I’ve taken some time away from here for reasons we all understand too well. Important to ensure you’re well in yourself first. Lots of exciting things coming up! Very happy to be back and in a better place to share them. Here’s a snap reflecting some of those feelings 😊

These Roman columns inside a supermarket in Split, Croatia. (Photo Credit: @WhoaInteresting) More: atlasobscura.com/places/spar-su…

The Roman house the mullet 🤝 "business in the front, party in the back"

Yesterday’s dinner was delightful. Love our little Roman family: a flat comprising a Colombian filmmaker/photographer, a Brazilian opera pianist, an Italian biologist and myself, a British ancient historian. We laughed at just how fantastic that sounds when said out loud...

@ChrisRouse1212 Same same, but different. My grades were poor in 2013 so I re-took year 13. It felt horrible. But, that year taught me so much - I was not ready to go to uni at that stage!

Having an awful year in 2013, consequently messing up my A2 exams and not getting the required grades for my Cambridge offer. Felt like the worst possible thing at the time, but with hindsight it was a good thing to happen for soooo many reasons

La primavera sta arrivando 🙂

Trying to get a physical sense of the space in the Saepta’s porticoes this evening. If we believe the Plan, they were c.14m wide. Compared to the 6m portico here today, and the c.9.5m of Pompey and Octavia, they were extraordinarily spacious. Pretty sure this counts as research.

From the #BSRArchives. An insight into Ashby's acquisition of his collections: he gratefully accepts the 318 drawings by James Hakewill in exchange for guiding the donor's large (!) family around Rome. Here are some @the_bsr today, and all browsable here: bsrdigitalcollections.it/hakewill-colle…

@TheRomanSoc collection update #1 with a survey on glass negatives to determine their extent and physical condition - unwrap & rearrange @the_bsr @ale_jeee @benwhite9112 #BSRArchives #historyofphotography #Archives #Rome

I have used this lovely note from @Sapphiet as a bookmark in my journal for a year or so now. The positive energy and little chuckle it prompts each day is genuinely massive in keeping me going. Missing friends and colleagues! I wanted to extend the sentiment to you all as well.

@Witchy_Nat I feel seen... Sending all the positive energy I can muster (I need it myself), we’ve got this!

What I needed to do today: ❗️Mid-year review research statement What I have done: ✅PPT presentation for a talk I'm not doing until end of Feb ✅Painted some white card white (for bf's model-making) What I have not done today: ❌Mid-year review research statement 🤦‍♀️