ancient history

The young socialist has tried to downplay his previous hostility to police, but this isn’t ancient history.

“Talking about all this like ancient history makes me feel, ‘Oh yeah, we’ve kind of come a long way,’” Pickles ruminates.

She also said plans to close two courses - ancient history and religion and theology - would go ahead, subject to final approval by the University Council.

But proposals to close the schools of music, modern languages, ancient history and religion and theology remain on the table, as well as plans to merge other departments.

It seems like ancient history now, but once upon a time, there was a little backdoor pilot that dreamed of growing up to be a full-fledged reality television spectacle.