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Excellent article on the future of the book very pessimistic but seems to have a point. My own feeling is that the way it will go will be books will be published which are really special physical objects. So books will become a souvenir. We read them electronically but true fans by the physical book (signed?) as an object to treasure with extra content? The other thing is that like the music industry writers will move to live events and make money from other aspects of their work. Are books dead, and can authors survive? | Ewan Morrison | Books | guardian.co.uk

So many stories in this list - one lot executed at Charing Cross, others at Tyburn, others fled to american, germany, belgium or holland, some forcibly repatriated to their deaths, others died, others pardoned, others imprisoned. List of regicides of Charles I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I looked this up because I thought she would have spoken with a french accent but with an english mum and being brought up in Somerset maybe the BBC's decision to give her an english accent is correct. (He dad was French) Elizabeth Pepys (wife, b. St Michel) (Pepys' Diary)

Virtual books (accessible version) - Jane Austen's The History of England: Pages 13 and 14

George Shillibeer's Omnibus The London Omnibus

The builder of Albion Mills, London Bridge, Southwark Bridge and more is celebrated at an exhibition until Ag 31 2011 Institution of Civil Engineers - John Rennie @ 250: Celebrating one of Britain''s greatest engineers

1st Sept at 7.pm at the Old Operating Theatre Museum THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY At this exclusive evening of mind-reading and cold-reading performance,The London Magician will talk about, and demonstrate, the mind-reading and magical effects that first flourished in the Victorian séances hosted by fraudulent mediums -people who were emulating genuine psychics in parlours across England. Meeting the dead, past-life regressions, amazing mind-reading, apports - the fraudulent mediums were the forefathers of the cold reading prodigies of today. But more than being told, you will be shown: magic will be performed, minds read, tales and fortunes told. Illusion, mentalism and conjuring meet, through a glass darkly. £15 (available on the door or at lastminute.com) ~