by Administrator | Nov 15, 2019 | News & Press
The full programme is now available for our International Heritage Symposium on 28th November at Nottingham Conference Centre! We are delighted to welcome three keynote speakers at the forefront of their fields, and to present an exciting range of heritage best...
by Administrator | May 18, 2018 | Quick Reads
1924 Byron and Greece by George Gordon Byron, Harold M. Spender (1924) To mark the centenary of Byron’s death, there were several republications of the poet’s work, including The Works of Lord Byron (Volume 1-6), The Selected Poems of Lord Byron and Byron and Greece,...
by Administrator | May 11, 2018 | Quick Reads
1921 An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English by Ernest Weekley (1921) Ernest Weekley (see 1912-14) had a dictionary published in this year. It was published for lovers of our language and those with ‘an intelligent curiosity as to words origins and earlier...
by Administrator | May 4, 2018 | Quick Reads
1918 Pandemic 1918: The Story of the Deadliest Influenza in History by Catharine Arnold (2018) In the wake of the war, which took 18 million human lives, the Spanish flu pandemic killed up to 100 million more (250,000 in Britain), making it the deadliest natural...
by Administrator | Apr 27, 2018 | Quick Reads
1915 The Rainbow by D. H. Lawrence (1915) Concerning three generations of the Brangwens, The Rainbow takes place between the mid-19th Century and the early 20th. Tom falls in love with a genteel Polish widow and adopts her daughter as his own. Interfamily relations...