Happy New Year! Welcome to the first edition of 2011’s SPOT Newsletter. Today we have uploaded 3 podcasts from the Franco-British History seminar held jointly by the IHR and the University of Paris, our first screencast, and podcasts from our recent conference on...
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416...
‘A world of repositioning and dispersal’ is how Professor David McKitterick describes libraries in the UK in his discussion on present day difficulties that are facing libraries and in particular their rare book collections. This is our first podcasted session from...
With all of this snow and wintery weather affecting the majority of the UK you might be looking forward to your next summer beach holiday more than ever. To help pass the time towards next summer this week’s SPOT newsletter begins with two short papers from the...
“Wrong target, using the wrong methods” is the message in the first of this fortnight’s SPOT Newsletter podcasts. From a lifetimes’ involvement in sport policies largely at the universities of Loughborough and Gloucestershire, Michael Collins discusses the sports...
How is it that a man cannot avoid getting drunk with washer women when he knows his job is threatened by it? Why does a thief running from a crime scene stop to buy a hat? These are just some of the questions that Peter Andersson asks in his exploration of social...
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