Steven Hunt

On Saturday, I attended the 60th anniversary celebration of the Cambridge Latin Course, held at the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. I had been invited to give a talk, and I chose to explore the relationship between cognitive science and the Cambridge Latin Course (CLC), particularly in the light of the renewed interest in cognitive science that has accompanied educational reforms since the 2010s. I have long admired the Cambridge Latin Course and taught i

I've been reviewing some of the more recently-issued Latin novellas. A list can be found below. The idea is that for a student to develop reading fluency, they should receive as much input in the target language as possible. Because there are no easy Latin original authors to read at the beginners' level, modern authors have composed easy readers to get them started. Typically, these booklets or novellas are short (achievable), heavily illustrated (think dual-coding), have in

The third instalment in Boyd’s detective trilogy featuring Gabriel Dax, the nonchalant travel writer, British spy and occasional double agent, sends our unlikely hero on yet more unexpected escapades in the service of British intelligence. It's 1964 and more Cambridge spies have been unmasked. From Los Angeles and Moscow to Leningrad and the tiny Greek island of Icarios, Dax travels ostensibly in pursuit of material for his writing, but in reality at the behest of the mysteri