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Top tips: Pinterest as a visual bookmark for your business

28 January 2015 Innovation and enterprise

Top tips to master Pinterest for your business.

Spam as a very ephemeral (and annoying) genre…

28 January 2015 UK Web Archive

Spam is a part of modern life. Who hasn’t received any recently, is a lucky person indeed. But only try to put your email out there in the open and you’ll be blessed with endless messages you don’t want, from...

Colonial Knowledge: Lorimer’s Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia

28 January 2015 Untold lives

John Gordon Lorimer’s monumental Gazetteer of the Persian Gulf, Oman and Central Arabia – often simply referred to as ‘Lorimer’ by many researchers - has been digitised and is now accessible for free through the Qatar Digital Library. History, Geography...

Beauty in word and image

28 January 2015 European studies

Rumours of the demise of page 3 and news of the Royal Academy’s Rubens exhibition have inspired considerations on the concept of beauty in art and text. Rubens in the popular mind is associated with a particular female type, though...