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Dial‐Information Retrieval Centres
Charles M. MorrisonThis paper was read at the Library Association Conference, Resource Centres in Schools, at Loughborough University of Technology in October 1971. It describes some of the more…
The Walter de la Mare Centenary
Frances CollingwoodWALTER DE LA MARE, the centenary of whose birth falls on 25th April, was a master of English prose as well as being the supreme lyric poet of his age in the tradition of Campion…
Heritage of Trees
Ruth BainesLIME GREEN and olive, emerald and bottle—the trees of England are coming into leaf again and our woodlands show a myriad shades of green. A legion of poets will turn in their…
Three Peas in a Pod: A Hero and Two Heroines
Caroline E. WerkleyANDREW CARNEGIE would have liked my mother, who for many years presided over one of his public libraries, but I am not sure he would have cottoned to me. Mother, after all, had…
Hasted's Kent
Barbara E. CollinsKENT is one of the more beautiful of England's counties and one of the richest in ancient history. From the days of early invasions it has been in the forefront of national…
History in the Library of Winchester Cathedral
John UdalTHE PLACE Whitehall; the time 29 October 1618. An ageing man with a grey beard stands on a scaffold. He asks to see the axe that will behead him.
The Americanization of English
James EdgarWHEN WE ARE TALKING TO AMERICANS it is the differences in usage, pronunciation and vocabulary, rather than the similarities, which first strike us. But today nobody imagines that…