Readers of this Blog with easy access to Edinburgh may find it useful to have a reminder that Professor Thomas Duve, Director of the Max-Planck…
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Your blogger is no luddite. Computers make life easier. They assist research. There is an astonishing and increasing amount of, for example, rare books and…
Comments closedJames Boswell was once best known as the author of The Life of Samuel Johnson. In the second half of the twentieth century, he became…
Comments closedPeter Chiene was an Edinburgh graduate in law and philosophy who practised as a solicitor in Edinburgh. He died tragically young in an accident on…
Comments closed(Images of Bede and George Buchanan courtesy of Wikipedia Commons) According to the Venerable Bede, the language that linked the varied peoples who inhabited Britain…
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