After going to the Lisa Ross exhibition, I went on to a lecture on Roman history at the British Museum, which started at 3.15 p.m. There was quite a crowd there, but the lecturer had a fairly loud and clear voice, so there was no problem in hearing.
Starting with the beginning of Rome, whether factual or mythical, we moved on through the centuries, looking at statues and pottery, noting how modern the heads of the Romans looked - they could easily have been walking the streets today.
We ended up with the stature of Septimus, who is buried at York - again a figure which would not be out of place on the streets of York today if you changed the clothing to modern dress.
The British Museum have a lot of interesting talks - the problem is getting the time to go to them.
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