Famous and infamous characters from Britain’s past, and nearly 200,000 other defendants – the hard work of three British historians has brought the bloodstained past of London’s Old Bailey courthouse to life in a fascinating online archive |
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Thanks to the rise of the Internet and e-mail, the world has become a smaller place. Language is still a major barrier to communication, though, but research at British universities is knocking down linguistic walls |
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The furore over The Da Vinci Code and the continued popularity of Jane Austen’s work proves that, as a genre, the novel is still a real force. Chris Leadbeater meets the director of the University of Aberdeen’s new Centre For The Novel |
