by chrisa | Apr 28, 2014 | Conferences, Research Projects
When we proposed our AHRC project on the NW collector, R.E. Hart last year, ‘connecting descendants’ was not included as one of our research aims. This was in fact one of the very pleasing, but completely unexpected, results of our work. As our project drew to a close...
by chrisa | Dec 20, 2013 | Oxford University Press
Oxford University was a large mass-producer of books by the 1820s. Despite this, it was still occupying a very elegant but modest-sized neo-classical building in the centre of Oxford designed for it in 1713 by Nicholas Hawksmoor. By the mid-1820s this building was...
by chrisa | Dec 17, 2013 | Oxford University Press
Until the 1840s time in Oxford, and therefore at the University Press, was five minutes behind that of London. With no uniform national time until the coming of the railways and the telegraph, the sealed clocks carried by mail coaches would have to be adjusted to...