1968 may have been the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, but the year’s events had given scant scope for celebration: the My Lai massacre in Vietnam, the end of the Prague Spring, assassinations in the US (Martin Luther King Jr in April, Robert F Kennedy in June), anti-terrorism… Read More »
HeinOnline has now made available a database called Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture, & Law & holders of an Oxford Single Sign On will now see it listed as part of our general HeinOnline subscription. But it also accessible to anyone separately: after registration and voluntary donation: more details here. The publisher’s… Read More »
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” Henry VI Part 2 Act 4 Scene 2 Can the Law Bod join in the Bodleian’s celebrations of the birthday of the author of such a phrase? Perhaps we should rather be gleefully chuckling over a possible interpretation of the title of the accompanying exhibition Shakespeare’s… Read More »
A little over 457 years ago, on the 15th January 1559, Elizabeth I was crowned the Queen of England and Ireland in Westminster Abbey. She succeeded to the throne 59 days earlier, on the 17th November 1558. That succession and coronation led to a stable monarchy lasting more than 44 years. Elizabeth’s father was Henry VIII… Read More »
My Christmas film is Russian Ark. In one lingering ‘take’, the film leads us through the Hermitage in a series of dreamlike sequences, like the thread that guided Theseus through the labyrinth, until we arrive not at the Minotaur, but at a magnificent Romanov Ball. The film brilliantly negotiates 300 years of history as the… Read More »
The fun & high jinks of The Muppet Christmas Carol movie do not entirely hide the fact that the story raises a range of important social & legal issues. From the very outset, the opening sequence reveals a snowy city setting and quickly the viewer is alerted to the atrocious working conditions of those poor,… Read More »
Tired of saccharine Christmas films featuring cute kids and elaborate dance routines? Maybe the 1957 horror film The Abominable Snowman ( of the Himalayas in US release), starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing, would be more to your taste? No, it’s not a Christmas film, but it does feature some snow. And yes, it… Read More »
“Do you know the butchers in the next street but one?” “I should hope so.” “Good. Intelligent boy. Remarkable boy! Tell me, have they sold the prize turkey that was hanging there, not the little turkey, the big one?” “What, the one as big as me?” “Yes. Delightful boy! Yes, my boy, the one as… Read More »
Father Christmas himself plays a brief but crucial appearance in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe as a symbol of hope and, more immediately and conventionally, the bearer of gifts. Those he gave to the Pevensie children became vital in the vanquishing of the White Witch & the restoration of a peaceable kingdom. In… Read More »
John Cannan, research and instructional services librarian at Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, made the history books yesterday, June 25 2015. The United States Supreme Court opinion King v. Burwell cites Cannan’s Law Library Journal article, “A Legislative History of the Affordable Care Act: How Legislative Procedure Shapes Legislative History,”… Read More »
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