‘Lesser breeds within the law’ - Dickens and minor legal officers Dickens began as a lawyer's clerk and his works show...
Japanese Women in Tanka Poetry: from the 4th to the 13th Century Hisashi Nakamura and Ria Ulleri introduced the poetic world of...
Dickens’s law makers and law breakers: Barnard's Inn and beyond Dickens had no love for lawyers. He had been trained...
Science Fiction as a Literary Genre: Science Fiction in the Nineteenth Century The second part of this symposium includes the following talks...
Light from the Orkneys: Edwin Muir and George Mackay Brown The Orkneys produced two remarkable 20th century poets, for both...
The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words...
After 150 years: The topicality of Roget's Thesaurus The first thesaurus was created by Dr Peter Mark Roget...
From dictionary user to amateur lexicographer: Possibilities of on-line searches From online dictionaries to Wikipedia: the World Wide Web presents...