Book Review of Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum. Great Britain, 21. Harrow School, by Jasper Gaunt

Book reviews* GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

This important book is a pioneering application of a Geographical Information System (GIS) to medieval data, bringing together two national sources: the Inquisitions Post Mortem (IPM) for the period 1300–49 and the 1327, 1332, and 1334 lay subsidies.The results are in the form of numerous tables, graphs, and maps. Built around these is a series of invaluable commentaries. After a concise accoun...

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Much of cognitive science seeks to provide principled descriptions of various kinds and aspects of rational behaviour, especially in beings like us or AI simulacra of beings like us. For the most part, these investigators presuppose an unarticulated common sense appreciation of the rationality that such behaviour consists in. On those occasions when they undertake to bring the relevant norms to...

Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland

Official Year Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland

This well-known annual is the eighteenth issue, ! and during this period it has earned the reputa! tion of being an accurate and concise review of the history, organisation and conditions of membership of the various scientific aud learned Societies of Great Britain and Ireland. It is compiled from data furnished bv the societies themselves, and each year chronicles the work done by each societ...

Maternity in Great Britain

Here is a comprehensive study of nearly 14,000 cases of births during the week beginning March 3rd, 1946. The enquiry was sponsored by the Joint Committee of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the Population Investigation Committee, under the chairmanship of Professor James Young. Antenatal supervision, the places of confinement, and care during confinement, the relief of...