Outreach project at Soham Village College
On 20 March 2013, Helen gave a talk to GCSE students at Soham Village College, a specialist Technology and Languages College which gained Academy status in 2011. The event was organised in collaboration with the Cambridge University Museums outreach initiative.
Pupils at Soham Village College recently founded a Classics Society called ‘Plato’s People’, whose members formed the core audience. This inaugural talk to the society touched upon aspects of the Year 10 Classical Civilisation syllabus, illuminating life and education in Ancient Sparta. The ways in which Sparta has been used as a model for military education in later societies was also discussed.