Ancient Worlds Network 2026-27:
Details on events for next year's programme will be available in the coming months.
To hear about the experiences of previous attendees who have since started at Oxford University please visit our YouTube page:
Student Ambassador Q&A - Why Apply to AWN?
Ancient Worlds Network 2025-26:
AWN Residential
This year we invited 30 current Year 12 students in the North-West of England with an interest in Classics and the ancient world to Corpus Christi for a four-day residential in Oxford.
Over the week students attended a variety of different sessions as an introduction to Classics. Through lectures, language classes and small group Oxford-style tutorials, students spent the week developing the skills needed to study classics (and more generally, the Humanities) at Oxford.
Trips visiting Roman ruins at the Ashmolean and North Leigh Villa in Witney, evening activities and talks from student ambassadors also helped to humanise the Oxford experience. Through these interactions students were able to see that the University open to all pupils with a genuine interest in the subject.
AWN Taster Lecture:
'Introduction to Classics' Lecture event
The AWN were joined by Giuseppe Pezzini, Professor of Latin Language and Literature at CCC as well as current Humanities students for an afternoon of lectures and myth busting about applying to Oxford.
