2: Rosemary Sutcliff: History is People Coffee and Circuses

In this essay, 'History is People' acclaimed historical novelist Rosemary discussed her responsibilities as a children's author and her belief that human nature remains essentially consistent and relatable throughout history, using a range of texts from the Homeric Age to the English Civil War to illustrate her points.The essay was originally distributed at a conference for the Children's Literature in Education journal in Exeter in 1971, and was later reprinted in the 1973 anthology Children and Literature: Views and Reviews, edited by Virginia Haviland, which is where this reading is taken from. The text can be found here: https://archive.org/details/childrenliteratu00haviVoice Cast:Alex Davis as Rosemary SutcliffNikos Karydis as HomerFlavio Bacci as the Roman soldierSarah Bremner as Margret PastonVicky Saward Read as Catherine ParrAnd Jay Ingate as Edward SpencerMusic Credits:Meditation Impromptu One to Three, Touching Memories, Relaxing Piano Music and Crossing the Divide, all by Kevin Macleod and available from incompetech.comIf you’d like to find out more about Rosemary Sutcliff, you can visit the official website at RosemarySutcliff.netYou can also read David's analyses of various Sutcliff novels and short stories on website for the Our Mythical Childhood Survey, an international project which looks at the influence of Classical culture on modern children’s media: http://www.omc.obta.al.uw.edu.pl/myth-survey/search

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