Steven Hunt

Recently, I got on at Mornington Crescent Underground Station in London, and I paused to show my daughter one of the small labyrinth plaques that now adorn every station on the Underground network. They were designed by artist Mark Wallinger (he of the London Olympics 'Cauldron') and installed to mark the 150th anniversary of the London Underground, and they depict a winding path leading towards a centre. 270 of them were originally made, one for each station; with the additi

Each year I keep a record of the number, type and location of posts for Classics teachers, basing the figures on published adverts in the Times Educational Supplement, the Teacher Vacancies website run by the Department for Education and (occasionally) other sources, such as direct communication from a school. My key words are Classics, Latin and Greek. Details are collected from 1st September to 31st August. Most of the schools which advertise in this way are secondary; a fe

A Summer Journey from Zagreb to Split I’d never been to Croatia before, and so my daughter and I decided that this summer was the moment to put that right. Flying into Zagreb, the capital, we settled into a lovely apartment right in the centre of town, just outside one of its main squares. Zagreb has two principal squares: one where all the tramlines meet (what good organisation!), and another where people gather in the evenings to sit, drink, talk and watch the world go by.