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Dr Jess Venner is an award-winning ancient historian and archaeologist. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford (2025-28) and was a previous holder of the presitigous Rome Award at the British School at Rome (2025-26). She is also an elected Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a Trustee of the Herculaneum Society, amongst other academic posts.

Dr Venner is passionate about making ancient history accessible to her 240k+ followers on Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Threads, and Substack, creating and sharing expert content via her platform @lifeinthepastlane_.

Dr Venner has appeared in publications such as The Times, The Mirror, The Daily Star and BBC History Magazine and has featured as a gue ...more

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The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day

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Swann's Way (Penguin Drop Caps) by Marcel Proust (2013-12-26)

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Jess Venner liked Em Barton's review of The Lost Voices of Pompeii: "📚 ARC / Tandem Book Club 📚 “Nothing lasts forever. Not names, nor monuments. Not even cities.” When I was younger and I first heard about the devastation of Pompeii in early CE, I found myself constantly coming back to it. It was such a huge disaster t" Read more of this review »
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Jess Venner and 1 other person liked Chrissie Patterson's review of The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day: "I picked this up as part of a readalong with Tandem Collective, and honestly, I wasn’t sure how I’d get on with it. It’s the first non fiction book I’ve read in a long time, and I fully expected it to take me ages or feel a bit heavy. It did take me " Read more of this review »
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Jess Venner and 2 other people liked Nicola Stott's review of The Lost Voices of Pompeii: The Final Day in Seven Lives: "Absolutely fascinating! "
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Jess Venner made a comment on Michelle Castaneda’s review of The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day " Michelle, thank you so much for such a wonderful review! "
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Jess Venner made a comment on Angelina Titeryakova’s review of The Lost Voices of Pompeii: Life and Death on Pompeii's Final Day " Thank you for your review, Angelina! It was my hope, as you say, this book will move away from the dry, academic treatises of other non-fiction books ...more "
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