Hard Wordes in Plaine English By Scott McLemee Longtime readers of Intellectual Affairs may recall that this column occasionally indulges in reference-book...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Apr 6, 2007 7:28 pm
Michael R, Fascinating: of Cawdrey I was unaware. Thanks. Terry F...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
Apr 7, 2007 6:34 am
** High Priority ** Fascinating - I especially liked the definition of decision. Never heard of him before - a great find! Thanks! Australian Susan Susan...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
Apr 8, 2007 9:37 am
Monday, 5 March (This day will be always remembered, as the day when books were assassinated by the forces of darkness, hatred and fanaticism.) The beginning...
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djc_ucl
Apr 12, 2007 11:24 am
Friday 25 May 2007 12:00 The Annual Pepys Commemoratrion Service and Lecture St Olave Hart St...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Apr 16, 2007 10:05 pm
Folks, Someone in this group who is connected to an academic or other research institution in the UK has the best chance at clearance to access the Dataset:...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Apr 17, 2007 3:25 pm
Nice find Terry. I've emailed the Met Office to see if I can get hold of the data and permission to include it on the site. In time I'd like to add historical...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
Apr 19, 2007 8:01 am
Food in Early Modern England Joan Thirsk Continuum, 396pp, £30, ISBN 9781852855383 John Evelyn would find our agonies about food all too familiar. He was ...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Apr 19, 2007 3:47 pm
Michael, Nice review of what seems to be a neat book -- another for Additional Reading? The mere mention of fennel made my mouth water for certain Italian...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Apr 26, 2007 3:52 am
YOUR LIFE Posted on Fri, Apr. 13, 2007 Stinging nettles have many uses "The English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote, "Long live the weeds." You'd think as a...
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Peter Easton
phe_tryagain
Apr 27, 2007 5:56 am
The Central England Temperature data (CET) - as monthly mean - are available here, dating from 1659: http://hadobs.metoffice.com/hadcet/cetml1659on.dat From a...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
Apr 27, 2007 3:48 pm
Peter, Phil wrote: "I've emailed the Met Office to see if I can get hold of the data and permission to include it on the site." ...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
Apr 28, 2007 8:53 pm
Hi, ... I'm a bit confused by this, but I probably didn't help matters by not realising the daily data wasn't available until 1772. So I've tried again, this...
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Shawn Laasch
shawnlaasch
May 1, 2007 1:29 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/interactive/timelines/british/index.shtml I'm not sure if the rest of our BBC-obsessive Anglophiles (like me) have come across...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
May 1, 2007 1:50 am
** High Priority ** Thanks for drawing my attention to this - wonderful site! Susan Thomas for Emphron Informatics Pty. Ltd. (07) 3378 7344 0411 094 688 ... ...
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Phil Gyford
gyford
May 4, 2007 1:39 pm
Hi all, To keep you updated... the Met Office have confirmed that this data is copyright-free, because it's so old, so I hope to include the monthly...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
May 5, 2007 7:04 pm
Includes an extensive section on Blake and The First Anglo-Dutch War, 1652–1654 http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/dnb/2582.html Available through their...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
May 9, 2007 3:09 pm
See the info boxes below the photo to the right of this article and click on JAMESTOWN 400 to see other stories, multimedia about 17th century English ...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
May 10, 2007 12:04 am
** High Priority ** Wonderful site, Terry! Spent ages looking at everything - only one quibble - the ships are flying the wrong flag! The Union Flag showing...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
May 10, 2007 1:43 am
Email them! Terry...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
May 10, 2007 2:33 am
Email them! Terry ... Yahoo! Groups Links...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
May 10, 2007 7:01 pm
Of course, Australian Susan, another possibility is that, because the replica ships were sailing long after 1707, they had to have flags required by the law of...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
May 11, 2007 3:03 am
** High Priority ** I have done now! (the University which is co-ordinating the celebrations). Will let you know if they reply. The English and Scottish Union...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
May 11, 2007 3:33 am
I gather the Navy in SP's time flew these:? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_George's_Cross http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/flags/gb-ensig.html Terry F...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
May 11, 2007 3:37 am
This is more period-accurate for what ships flew: http://tmg110.tripod.com/british1.htm Terry F...
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Susan Thomas
susan.thomas@...
May 11, 2007 4:09 am
** High Priority ** Yes! But I am mystified by what this Hearts of Oak website says about the Union Flag - it says it was designed to be used at sea - yet the...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
May 11, 2007 8:42 am
Vyner [Viner], Sir Thomas, first baronet (1588-1665), goldsmith and banker, http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/lotw/2007-05-11...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
May 11, 2007 9:13 am
The ships were chartered by the Virginia Company (probably from the Muscovy Company)and under the command of Christopher Newport "a sort of sailor of fortune...
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Michael Robinson
robinsonmf
May 11, 2007 10:08 am
In 1606, following some altercations over flags between English and Scottish ships, James VI and I issued the following proclamation: ... The exact design that...
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Terry Foreman
thforeman
May 11, 2007 3:15 pm
Nice clarification. Also interesting ongoing 17c flag history, proclamation of C II that governed flagging in Pepys's day....
