Historical Thesaurus: On Kinship
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Reference & UK | November 5, 2009
Professor Christian Kay from the HTOED team blogs about one of her favourite sections of the Historical Thesaurus.
Archive for the 'UK' Category
Gaspard de Coligny and the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
Filed in A-Featured & History & UK & World History | November 4, 2009
An excerpt from Martyrs and Murderers by Stuart Carroll.
Friday Procrastination: UK Link Love
Filed in A-Featured & Blogs & UK | October 30, 2009
What Kirsty has been reading in Oxford this week.
Historical Thesaurus Week – Christian Kay reflects
Filed in A-Editor's Picks & A-Featured & Dictionaries & Reference & UK | October 29, 2009
Professor Christian Kay reflects on her 40 years’ work on the HTOED.
No peace for a Cambridge Classics don
Filed in A-Featured & History & UK & World History | October 28, 2009
Professor Paul Cartledge on the cities of Ancient Greece.
The Historical Thesarus of the Oxford English Dictionary: Some fun facts and figures
Historial Thesaurus Week
Filed in A-Featured & Lexicography & Reference & UK | October 27, 2009
Some facts and figures about the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Divide and Conquer? Splitting the Roles of Chair and CEO
Filed in A-Featured & Business & Finance & UK | October 21, 2009
Chris Mallin, author of Corporate Finance, blogs about companies splitting the role of Chair and CEO.
What Made the Crocodile Cry? …And other language questions
Filed in A-Featured & Reference & UK | October 15, 2009
Susie Dent answers some of your language questions.
A Linguistic Archaeology of the Mind
Filed in A-Featured & Dictionaries & Reference & UK | October 14, 2009
Julia Cresswell, author of The Insect that Stole Butter? on the puzzling history of the word ’sack’.
The English Girl and the Tsunami
Filed in A-Featured & Geography & History & Science & UK | October 8, 2009
An excerpt from Megadisasters by Florin Diacu
