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'Jackanory gets revamp for specials with CGI characters' by Owen Gibson, The Guardian, 20 October 2006.

'Darwin's entire works go online' by Ian Sample, The Guardian, 19 October 2006.

"Ted Hughes's wife, Sylvia Plath, famously killed herself. But what of his mistress, who four years later did the same?" 'Written out of history', The Guardian, 19 October 2006.

For the reading list: A Lover of Unreason: The Biography of Assia Wevill by Yehuda Koren and Eilat Negev. Published by Robson Books, price £20.00.

"But the novelties come thick and fast, beginning (so far as I was concerned) with the suggestion on page 10 that Dante and other poets he associated with in Florence as a young man might have given their visionary and dreamlike imaginings a boost with the stimulus of love-potions. These herbal stimulants, cannabis perhaps, may, it turns out later, be what Dante is referring to in the comparison, near the start of Paradiso, between his own “trans-human” experience and what Glaucus felt “on tasting of the herb” (nel gustar dell’erba) which made him into a sea-god. As Reynolds explains at greater length when she comes to the final vision of the Godhead, mystics did often use drugs of one kind or another in conjunction with fasting and meditation in their pursuit of visionary illumination. There is no reason, she argues, why Dante should not have done so too."
'Dante on drugs' by Peter Hainsworth, reviewing Dante: the poet, the political thinker, the man, Shaw (ed.), Tauris, 2006. Times Literary Supplement, 18 October 2006.

"Female crime writers should give thanks that [Agatha Christie] vanished, even if it's really no mystery at all" 'Agatha, we all owe you' by Frances Fyfield, The Guardian, 17 October 2006.

'A small-sized history of fashion in the movies' by Sheila Johnston, Telegraph.co.uk, 16 September 2006.

"What drove two artists to track down every stuffed polar bear in Britain?" 'Bear-faced chic of Arctic giants' by Benjamin Secher, The Telegraph, 14th October 2006.

'Horniman Museum searches for missing polar bear' by Melina Greenfield, 24 Museum, 11 October 2006.

The Great White Bear at the Horniman Museum, 21 October 2006 - 25 March 2007.

"Visitors to Tate Modern will be able to try out five giant slides that have been unveiled at the London gallery."
'Tate Modern unveils giant slides', BBC News, 9 October 2006.

"Poetry is perennially on the ropes, a pensive, esoteric artform in a world absorbed by novelty and new media. But Poet Laureate Andrew Motion says it can resonate with all ages and an unlikely ambassador for the young is a certain Pete Doherty."
'Chatter and verse' by Sean Coughlan, BBC News Magazine, 9 October 2006.

Pete Doherty's favourite poets:
''Emily Dickinson? She's hardcore'', The Guardian, 3 October 2006.

'Power and Taboo: Polynesian gods at the British Museum', 24 Hour Museum, 2 October 2006.

Power & Taboo: Sacred Objects from the Pacific, British Museum, 28 September 2006 - 7 January 2007.

'Robert Frost Poem Discovered Tucked Away in Book' by Andrea Seabrook, NPR, 1 October 2006.

Review of Rodin Exhibition:
'At the Royal Academy' by Peter Campbell, London Review of Books, 28(19).

"As the 300th anniversary of the Act of Union nears, an academic has fanned controversy by claiming the 'parcel of rogues' did not sell Scotland down the river." 'Betrayed? No, Scots wanted the Union' by Lorna Martin, The Observer, 24 September 2006.

'Unveiled: early copy that reveals Mona Lisa as her creator intended' by Charlotte Higgins, The Guardian, 23 September 2006.

'How lust shaped the art of Rodin' by Richard Dorment, The Telegraph, 19 September 2006 - includes slideshow and podcast.

"None of Leonardo's inventions ever took off, but an exhibition of his scientific drawings reveals how his extraordinary mind worked"
'New light on a high-flying genius' by Richard Dorment, The Telegraph, 19 September 2006 - includes slideshow.

"Martyrs and lovers, kissers and thinkers, the good and the damned ... Rodin's exaggerated figures tell us what it is to be human."
'Your own flesh and blood' by Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 19 September 2006.

'Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, Experiment and Design' by Adrian Searle, The Guardian, 14 September 2006.

'A walk in the dark' by Jonathan Jones. The Guardian, 17 August, 2006
- Hogarth Trail.

'Ted Hughes, the domestic tyrant ' by David Smith. The Observer, 10 September 2006.

"The bestselling novelist Susan Hill yesterday accused senior managers of public libraries of abandoning their commitment to books and manoeuvring to turn library buildings into social centres." ('Writer rues library changes' by John Ezard. The Guardian, 11 September 2006).

Index of Medieval Medical Images - from UCLA

Exploring Photography: Photographic Processes - microsite from the V&A.

'Isolated grave for "Treasure Island" author' by Iain Lundy. The Scotsman, 5 September 2006.

'Million Little Pieces may cost publishers millions in refunds' by Dan Glaister, The Guardian, 8 September 2006.

From Cradle to Grave: an art installation by David Critchley, Susie Freeman and Liz Lee

COMPASS entry

Woman's Hour, 2003

On the cover of the BMJ, 333(7557)

"From cradle to grave": NHS History

'Paddington Bear: a case study of immigration and otherness' by Angela Smith. Children's Literature in Education, 37(1), March 2006.

"Paddington, as a series of books begun in the late 1950s, presents issues of anti-racism and ‘Otherness’ which can be revealed through a close textual analysis of the introductory chapters of the first book in series, A Bear Called Paddington (1958), whilst also showing how the dominant culture retains its superior status."

Full text free to download from the Springer site.

Light Magic: The life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh (iToors.com).

'British Library acquires 'outstanding' Coleridge family archive' by Richard Lea, Guardian Unlimited, 21 August 2006.

'Coleridge's descendants sell papers that reveal family's views on a maverick poet', by Louise Jury, The Independent, 21 August 2006.

'We've had enough of Greek myths' by Bernadine Evaristo. The Independent, 13 August 2006.

"The poetry establishment needs black and Asian writers to invigorate a tired old scene."

One life: Walt Whitman, a kosmos - new minisite from the Smithsonian.

'Fable of Flesh' by Hadara Bar-Nadav. AGNI Online, August 2006.

"QUEEN guitarist Brian May has given thousands of pounds to save hedgehogs from slaughter in the Outer Hebrides, it emerged yesterday...

it is said to be enough to pay for the rescue of hundreds of hedgehogs from the Uists, where Scottish Natural Heritage has been culling the animals for the past four years.

The hedgehogs pose a threat to rare ground-nesting birds and their eggs.

So far more than 500 have been killed by lethal injection and more than 700 saved. There are believed to be about 3,000 left on the islands."


'Top rock guitarist helps save islands' hedgehogs' by Mike Merritt. The Scotsman, 7 August 2006.

'How Richard and Judy rewrote the bestseller lists' by Rob Sharp. The Observer, 6 August 2006.

The National Archives have made the Domesday Book available online. They've also provided some great accompanying material, including information on food and drink in the 'World of Domesday' feature.

'New research indicates Johnson gave up on his dictionary' by Maev Kennedy. The Guardian, 3 August 2006.

Good to know that even Johnson struggled with his deadlines.

Creative connections between Hardy and Ibsen by Paul Binding. Times Literary Supplement, 2 August 2006.

"In the past three decades, which magazines have made a substantial mark, a difference, a contribution?"

'Poésie sans frontières' by Michael Schmidt. The Guardian, 15 July 2006.

'Chilling mystery of Kelvingrove's secret signed Hitler photo' by Anna Miller. The Scotsman, 15 July 2006.