Glasgow University has announced an interesting research project looking at social networking of today in comparison to the social networking of the 19th century - conducted through the post office instead of the internet.Â
The introduction to the project explains, “Social networking employs the whole range of available communications technologies to a fault; but communication has […]

Why should religious music be of interest to our largely secular society? BBC 4’s Sacred Music, presented by Simon Russel Beale, visited Notre Dame de Paris to show how two innovations of the 12th Century Notre Dame School underpin what has since come to be known as western classical music.
Four members of early music specialist […]

Is it possible to use a blog to genuinely bring history to life? The answer is a resounding yes as this imaginative blog ably demonstrates.
As many of you may know, as well as being an advocate for all things Web2.0 I’m also a keen student of the Great War. As such, you can probably guess […]

Jim in The Highlands was quick to note Channel 4’s move from £6m per year on educational television programming to a large part of £6m per year on online educational programming. Is educational TV dead on C4? Not quite, but it’s certainly undergone some serious surgery to make it recognisable to a 2008 teen. Channel […]

Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog
While revisiting V. S. Ramachandran’s 4th 2003 Reith Lecture on synaesthesia, I was struck by the term synaestheticmetaphor. This was raised as one of four possible causes for this neurological phenomenon – which affects 1 in 200.
Artists of all sorts, whose currency is metaphor, constitute 1 in 8 of famous […]

It’s amazing what a dispute about composers’ dates can do. In an attempt to prove that Mozart was still alive when Beethoven was born, I entered “composers timeline” into Google and chanced upon a great resource at Classical.net, compiled by Dave Lampson and a healthy team of reviewers and contributors.
On this very scholarly website, composers […]

A pupil from Doune Primary School, explains how the pupils act a junior tour guides at Doune Castle to guide other school children round the castle and explain its history. They dress in medieval costume and have medieval weapons to shwo the visitors.
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