Friday Procrastination: Link Love
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs | May 29, 2009
What Rebecca has been reading.
Archive for May, 2009
How the New York Times (and Almost Everyone Else) Missed the Watergate Scandal
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & American History & Current Events & Media & Politics | May 28, 2009
Donald Ritchie looks at the reporting of Watergate.
Tarmac – Podictionary Word of the Day
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Podictionary | May 28, 2009
How Did Your Garden Grow?
Gardening the Seventeenth-Century Way
Filed in A-Featured & Current Events & History & Leisure & Literature & Prose & UK | May 28, 2009
OUP UK Publicity Manager Juliet Evans snags some bargains at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, and looks to 17th century gardener John Evelyn for some tips on how to make the most of them.
The Dirty Dozen:
Top 12 Helen Gurley Brown-isms
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Biography & History | May 27, 2009
Advice from Helen Gurley Brown.
Monthly Gleanings: May 2009
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Lexicography & Oxford Etymologist | May 27, 2009
Anatoly’s monthly gleanings.
The Aftermath: Rwanda in 1995
Filed in A-Featured & Current Events & History & Media & Notes From Africa & Politics & Religion | May 26, 2009
A look at Rwanda after the genocide and the violence that led to the Kibeho massacre.
Like Grimoires? Read More!
Filed in A-Featured | May 26, 2009
Owen Davies, professor of social history at the University of Hertfordshire, has written extensively about the history of magic, witchcraft and ghosts. His most recent book, Grimoires: A History of Magic Books, is a history of magic books that takes us from ancient Eygpt, through Kabbalah, Scandinavian witchcraft, 19th-century Egyptology, West African folk religion, a [...]
Reflections on A Check-Room Romance
Filed in Blogs & Music | May 22, 2009
Michelle discusses the premiere of A Check-Room Romance–and what happens when music and graphic art merge into one theatrical genre.
A Memorial Day Tribute To The G.I. Bill
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & American History & Current Events & Education & Law & Politics | May 22, 2009
An excerpt from The G.I. Bill: A New Deal For Veterans.
