The Book of London Place Names

Ever wondered if Cheapside really is cheap, what you do in Threadneedle Street, or who the ...

The Book of English Place Names

Take a journey down winding lanes and Roman roads in this witty and informative guide to the m...

Pushing The Envelope

The bottom line is this: the workplace is a minefield of business jargon that people bandy about ...

Answers To Rhetorical Questions

The rhetorical question is one of those grammatical quirks that just doesn't seem to have any log...

Christmas at War - True Stories of How Britain Came Together on the Home Front

Apple a Day

In 'An Apple A Day'...Caroline Taggart explores the truth behind our favourite proverbs, their hi...

Classical Education

How many times have you wished that you'd been taught Latin at school? Or that your history stret...

Grammar Secrets

El libro joven del mundo clásico

 Una aproximación sencilla a la mitología, el arte, la cultura y el teatro, la historia y las cos...

I Used to Know That

If you've forgotten the capital city of Chile; the basics of osmosis; how to solve a quadratic eq...

My Grammar and I (Or Should That be ’Me’?)

For anyone who has ever had a problem with dangling modifiers and split infinitives, or for those...

Das habe ich doch mal gewusst!

Fotosynthese ¿ wie war das noch? Und was stand eigentlich in den »Räubern«? Da hat man viele Jahr...