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My TEDx talk on “lessons from ancient social media” 19 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
The video of my TEDxOxbridge talk on “lessons from ancient social media”, based on my forthcoming book “Writing on the Wall” is finally available! I’m quite pleased with it, even if they did cut ou...
Share it like Cicero: How Roman authors used social networking 21 Jun 2013 | 06:18 pm
One of the stories I tell in “Writing on the Wall” is about the way the Roman book-trade worked. There were no printing presses, so copying of books, which took the form of multiple papyrus rolls, was...
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Borders Boarded cameronperon.com 28 Feb 2011 | 07:34 am
Your favorite category killer bookstore, and others just like it, may be on the way out. I remember in my home town in Michigan there was a quaint small book shop in our picturesque 19th century main...
Harry Potter readbooksonlineforfree.net 30 Apr 2012 | 07:16 am
Where do we start. There are apparently three golden ages when it comes to children’s books: the end of the 19th century saw classics like Alice in Wonderland and the Secret Garden, during the 60s the...
MUSIC - BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES 1stfloorflatfreebies.blogspot.com 4 Jan 2012 | 09:39 am
Hardback, case-bound, this was very wide when opened, so I think is a very early one. As per usual, a lot of these early books don't have dates in, so I can only estimate mid 19th century.
Notes on London Review of Books, February 3, 2005 (Volume 27, Number 3) soldbyvolume.blogspot.com 1 Nov 2010 | 06:01 am
Linda Colley on N.A.M Rodger: the superiority of British Sea Power is a mid-19th century construction, not consistently supported by the actual history of the preceding three centuries. Joyce’s “Step...
Measuring the Victorians ourmutualread.blogspot.com 5 Dec 2010 | 12:19 pm
The New York Times has an article (from December 3rd) called Analyzing Literature by Words and Numbers about how "the titles of every British book published in English in and around the 19th century —...
OTTOMAN OBSERVERS OF THE EUROPEAN SCENE kaknus.com.tr 3 Dec 2008 | 04:31 am
Ottoman government officials and travelers embarked on journeys to fascinating and unfamiliar lands—most particularly, Europe in the 19th century—and presented reports of their impressions in various ...
"Fairer Than Morning" Book Review & Giveaway (Ends 9/19) thetwinners.com 10 Sep 2011 | 12:53 pm
About the Book: "Ann dreams of a marriage proposal from her poetic suitor, Eli - until Will Hanby shows her that nobility is more than fine words. On a small farm in 19th-century Ohio, young Ann Mill...
British library newspapers mjphoto-n-design.com 24 Mar 2011 | 05:44 pm
Amazon has gone into a very positive partnership with the UK’s british library newspapers. Now, Kindle owners will have access to over 65,000 out-of-print books dating back to the 19th Century, and be...
The Inexplicables by Cherie Priest the-iceberg.blogspot.com 3 Mar 2013 | 12:32 am
Cherie Priest just gets better and better and has written a fast paced and moving fifth book in The Clockwork Century series, an alternate history of Civil War era late 19th century America. Priest ha...
April Drudion headheritage.co.uk 1 Apr 2013 | 03:00 am
Many of the Archdrude’s recent art pieces and album covers have been created in this over-sized 19th century book – Fender 12-string shown for scale – whose worn and antiqued pages add tremendously to...
