Maritime great who sank without trace
Anton Gill sketches the life of William Dampier, an explorer to rank with Raleigh and Drake but also a privateer and pirate who died in obscurity. William Dampier figures in a footnote of a book...
Anton Gill sketches the life of William Dampier, an explorer to rank with Raleigh and Drake but also a privateer and pirate who died in obscurity. William Dampier figures in a footnote of a book...
The Artful Universe - The Artful Eye
John MacColl sets out the agenda for the librarians' new online magazine. One of the aims of the eLib programme has been to raise awareness of the technological change which is transforming libraries...
The Films of Akira Kurosawa
Part six: the story so far . . . Despite Henry's apologies for following her, Toni hands in her resignation from the press office. Faced with such a serious threat to his well-laid romantic plans,...
Part six: the story so far . . . Despite Henry's apologies for following her, Toni hands in her resignation from the press office. Faced with such a serious threat to his well-laid romantic plans,...
Higher Education Funding Council for England allocations for the academic year 1995/96 are more of the same; steady down the slope to mediocrity. There is nothing dramatic: nothing glaringly unfair;...
Molecular biologists at Birkbeck College are using the World Wide Web, Tony Durham explains. The glossary group are talking about building their own room and having meetings in there." Fortunately it...
Democracy and International Trade
Richard Poynder scours the Net for resources for the humanities and offers some good starting points. For those prepared to make the effort of seeking it out, there is a rich seam of material on the...
Andrew Charlesworth cuts a path through the legal jungle on the World-Wide Web, in the first of a series of articles on Net law . It is apparent, from even a cursory survey of the Internet, that the...
Are some people addicted to the fast expanding Internet? Mark Griffiths argues the case for research. With the numbers of online computer users more than doubling over the past two years, it has been...
The convergence of information technologies will fundamentally alter the role of universities but early experimenters are getting it wrong, Chris Hutchison argues. Education is entering a new era....
Henry Wellcome