What is the best way to add footnotes to an essay on the web? Make a footnote a link like this (1) but you slip get back. Perhaps javascr...

My PhD subject looks like it will be on science around 1500 rather than the fourteenth century where my studies have been concentrated until...

The notorious book, the Jesus Mysteries, has an amulet on the front that shows a crucified man and is labelled Bacchus. The authors claim t...

Back from skiiing which was very hard work as I am having great trouble turning right. Have to try again next year. At least I got some ...

Off skiing for a week in the Alps. This is only my second time but I hope for a refreshing week when my brain can have a rest and my body g...

Not updating this as often as I thought I might. I have been translating some Latin sources on medieval academics who got into trouble with...

Another nice web site from the Wayne Church of Christ , this time on the text of the bible and other stuff. It is a useful introduction to ...

Found a great website called Non - contradiction . It is a learned site all about Aristotle and contains English translations of much of hi...

On Question of Sport on BBC 1 last Friday, the panel had to work out which balls, shuttlecocks, darts etc were heaviest. In order to work t...

There was a good programme on BBC 2 on Saturday night (yes, it's sad but I wasn't down the pub). It was based on the research repor...