A talk by Professor Alastair Blanshard | Thursday 12 November 2026 | 6:00–7:00pm
Secret Pompeii: How a Roman provincial town rewrote the West’s erotic imagination. The excavations in Pompeii shocked and scandalised modern Europe. Beneath the ash, archaeologists uncovered vivid frescoes, graffiti, statues, and household objects that revealed a far more open and playful attitude to sex than people had imagined. This lecture uncovers how these finds transformed…
