2012
Shakespeare: Staging the World
Sponsor’s Foreword Director’s Foreword Authors’ Preface London, circa 1612: World City ‘Now I am in Arden’: Country, County and Custom ‘Cry “God for Harry, England and Saint George!”‘: Kingship and the English Nation ‘Beware the Ides of March’: The Legacy of Rome ‘A Fair City … Populated with Many People’: Venice Viewed from London The …
Blog Inc.: Blogging for Passion, Profit and to Create Community
Introduction to Blogging Finding your voice and niche Powering your blog Blogging community etiquette Making your blog a business Monetizing your blog The next stage of blogging growth
Thirteen Poems of Revenge
Introduction Sophie Hannah
Barry Manilow at the BBC
00:00:00 Montage of news clips and stage footage of Manilow 00:04:00 Interview footage about when music came into his life, and grandparents / parents encouraging musicality 00:07:30 Interview with Parkinson; modesty about whether people in UK would want him to tour here, in advance of gigs at the London Palladium in 1978. Pleasures of anonimity in the UK. 00:12:40 With Parkinson, …
The Story of English in 100 Words
A short history of English words[rtoc] Roe – the first word (C5) Lea – naming places (C8) And – an early abbreviation (C8) Loaf – an unexpected origin (C9) Out – changing grammar (C9) Street – a Latin loan (C9) Mead – a window into history (C9) Merry – a dialect survivor (C9) Riddle – …
On the Map: Why the World Looks the Way It Does
Forword: For the Love of Maps Dava Sobel Introduction: The Map That Wrote Itself [rtoc] What Great Minds Knew: How the ancient Greeks – Erastothenes and Ptolomy – first worked out the size and shape of the world and our place upon it The Men Who Sold the World: The day Britain’s greatest cartographic treasure …
The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens’ London
A Note on Currency [rtoc]Part One: The City Wakes 1810: The Berners Street Hoax Early to Rise On the Road Travelling (Mostly) Hopefully In and Out of London Part Two: Staying Alive 1861: The Tooley Street Fire The World’s Markets Selling the Streets Slumming The Waters of Death Part Three: Enjoying Life 1867: The Regent’s …
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Major and Mrs Holt’s Battlefield Guide to Operation Market-Garden
Historical Summary Approach: Channel Port to Leopoldsburg Itinerary One: Leopoldsburg to Eindhoven: XXX Corps Movements Itinerary Two: Eindhoven to Nijmegen: XXX Corps and US Airborne Itinerary Three: The Groesbeek Circuit: XXX Corps, Canadians & US Airborne Itinerary Four: Nijmegen Centre – The Island: XXX Corps & US Airborne Itinerary Five: Oosterbeek – Arnhem – Driel: …
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Now All Roads Lead to France: The Last Years of Edward Thomas
List of Illustrations List of Maps Steep, 1913 Dymock, 1914 High Beech, 1915-16 Arras, 1917
Connectome: How the Brain’s Wiring Makes Us Who We Are
Introduction Part I: Does Size Matter? Genius and Madness Border Disputes Part II: Connectionism No Neuron Is An Island Neurons All the Way Down The Assembly of Memories Part III: Nature and Nurture The Forestry of the Genes Renewing Our Potential Part IV: Connectomics Seeing Is Believing Following the Trail Carving Codebreaking Comparing Changing Part …
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How to Thrive in the Digital Age
Introduction From Past to Present Wired and Unwired Time Taking Control Reframing Technology Sharing, Expertise and the End of Authority On Becoming Less Than Human Play and Pleasure The New Politics Conclusion Homework