Free Books Offered

Reading School Classics Department has gone through a massive clearout of old text books (Cambridge CLC 1+2, amongst a variety of older text books, Latin set texts, primers and grammar books, dictionaries) which might be of interest to any teacher/person willing to come to Reading School to pick them out before Thursday 20th July 2006. After this they are destined for charity shops or possibly the bin. CLC text books are mostly in good condition, as the reason they are being disposed of is that we are changing text book.

I dont know whether you put up notices on your website re such things, but perhaps you could forward this to any interested parties because it would be an absolute shame for hundreds of books to have such a sad end.

If anyone is interested in coming, they need to email either

rwilkin@readingschool.reading.sch.uk
srogers@readingschool.reading.sch.uk
mrc@readingschool.reading.sch.uk

Reading School telephone number 01189015600 ask for Classics Office - Mr Cooper/Miss Rogers/Miss Wilkin

LACTORs

LACTORs are a series of translations of source material for the study of Ancient History and Classical Civilisation. They were initially published under the aegis of the London Association of Classical Teachers (L.A.C.T.), starting in 1968, but are now published by the LACTOR Committee, an independent, non-profit-making body.
LACTORs bring before the student, who may have no knowledge of Classical Greek or Latin, a wide range of Greek and Roman literary texts, documents, inscriptions and coins. These illuminate the history and civilisation of Greece betwee 478 and 323 B.C., and of Rome between 133B.C. and A.D. 117 (or, in the case of Roman Britain, down to A.D. 410).
For a list of titles and an order form please visit http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/lactor

Hellenic Bookservice

Monica Williams of the Hellenic Bookservice offers course and text books, historical novels, videos and many other practical resources, including software. You can visit the shop on line at http://www.hellenicbookservice.com
Email info@hellenicbooks.co.uk, or the full address is
91, Fortess Road,
London NW5 IAG,
Tel 020 7267 9499,
Fax 020 7267 9498

Ancient World Books

We are a scholarly bookstore specializing in out-of-print scholarly and quality used titles dealing primarily in classical studies and other aspects of the ancient world.

Visit our website at: http://www.ancientworldbooks.com/
Contact us at: info@ancientworldbooks.com

Classics Bookshop

The Classics Bookshop
23 Sheep Street
Burford
OX18 4LS

Tel: +44 (0) 1993 822969
http://www.classicsbookshop.co.uk

Publishers

Aris and Phillips
Cambridge University Press
Duckworths
Oxford University Press
Penguin Books
Routledge
Bristol Phoenix Press
Rhinegold Publishing

Grant Awarding Bodies in Classics

Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Contact: The Secretary, Roman Society, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Tel: 020 7862 8727; Fax: 020 7862 8728; email:office@romansociety.org

The Society’s Schools Committee makes grants to schools to help promote the teaching Latin and Roman studies. Most of the grants are awarded for the purchase of text books and other books on Roman topics, but the Committee also makes awards to groups and schools organising lectures or study days on Roman themes. Applications from schools planning to start courses in Latin are particularly welcome.
The annual budget is c. £6000, and the usual level of award is £50 to £500. The Committee meets three times a year. Applications should arrive by 1 February, 1 July or 1 November in any year. There is no special application form, but applicants should provide information about the level of their departmental budget, the type of course taught, and in the case of applications for books, a list of the books wanted with their prices.

Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
Contact: The Secretary, SPHS, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Tel: 020 8762 8730; Fax: 020 7862 8731; email office@hellenicsociety.org.uk

The Hellenic Society Schools Sub-Committee makes grants to schools to assist projects concerned with the teaching of Greek or Greek Civilisation. In recent years the Committee has been able to be particularly munificent in its awarding of grants, thanks to the great generosity of the Leventis Foundation. Typically, grants are for books and other teaching materials, setting up Classical Societies, Classics days or conferences and Summer Schools. Applications on behalf of individual pupils or teachers are not normally considered. Applications from schools planning to start courses in Greek are especially welcome. The Committee regrets that it is unable to make awards to cover travelling expenses for school trips. Most grants are in the region of £50 to £350, but larger awards are occasionally made. The Committee meets through the year.

The Classical Association
Contact: Clare Roberts, the Classical Association, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

The Classical Association (CA) will consider applications for: subventions to summer schools and institutions offering extra-mural courses in Greek, Latin and Classical Civilisation; bursaries for teachers attending courses abroad, notably the British School at Athens Easter Course; support of Greek and Latin reading competitions arranged by CA branches; support of regional Greek or Roman days or of school conferences; subventions to academic conferences, particularly when of broad appeal and held in major centres, with a view especially to assisting students, teachers and East European scholars to attend. The CA runs its own bursary scheme for students (undergraduate, graduate, PGCE) and teachers attending the annual CA Conference held in April each year: details are published three or four months in advance.

The Jowett Copyright Trust
Contact: Professor Jasper Griffin, Secretary, Jowett Copyright Trust, Balliol College, Oxford OX1 3BJ

The Trustees make grants to assist scholarly publications of editions of Greek authors or to promote the study of Greek literature.

JACT Greek Project
Contact: Dr Peter Jones, 28 Akenside Terrace, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE2 1TN Tel: 0191 281 1451; Fax: 0191 281 3948

Royalties from the CUP’s Reading Greek series are ploughed back into grants furthering the spread of ancient Greek language, history and culture in schools, summer schools and continuing education. These are given to institutions, not individuals. Applications for grants should be as specific as possible.

Friends of Classics
Contact: Mrs. Jeannie Cohen, Executive Secretary, Friends of Classics, 51 Achilles Road, London NW6 1DZ Tel & Fax: 020 7331 5088

Friends of Classics is a charitable organisation established primarily to raise funds to support Classics in schools. In general, it supports institutions not individuals, and is keen to develop INSET.

The Gilbert Murray Trust
Contact: The Hon Sec of the Classical Sub-Committee, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU

The Classical Sub-Committee gives grants towards travel in Greece or attendance at courses run by the British School at Athens. These are for teachers, though there are a few grants for students.

Books For Sale And Wanted

This new section of the website replaces the sections in the old JACT Bulletins: this allows notices to stay up for a longer period of time, in order to help you sell or find your desired items. Please let us know if you would like to post requests here- and if you have posted a notice and subsequently have sold or found the book(s) you are looking for, please also let us know in order to remove the notice!

WANTED ( notice posted Jan 2005 )

Any help would be much appreciated in obtaining A B Cooks - Zeus : A Study in Ancient Religion in three volumes comprising five parts ( five books ) originally published by Cambridge University Press between 1914 – 1940 and partly reprinted by Biblo and Tannen in the 1960’s. I have now been trying to obtain this elusive work for ten years. If you can help please contact Karl Winship on (01653) 692194 or by e mail on k.a.winship@btinternet.com

Ancient Greece from the Air

ANCIENT GREECE FROM THE AIR by Raymond V. Schoder . This book was first published in the United Kingdom by Thames & Hudson Ltd in 1974, but has been out of print for several years. Its 256 9 2 " x 6" pages contain 140 aerial colour photographs and 138 ground plans of 92 Greek sites, together with a chronological chart, glossary, bibliography and index. It is now available again at £8.95 plus £3.00 p & p if total order value under £50 from Old Vicarage Publications, The Old Vicarage, Reades Lane , Dane in Shaw, Congleton , Cheshire , CW12 3LL.