Daily Archives: March 11, 2013

Savory Sailors or Neptune’s Barber: Sweeney Todd and the Royal Navy

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Claudia Funke

In 1846, the prolific but now-obscure Victorian writer James Malcolm Rymer introduced the notorious Sweeney Todd in the String of Pearls, or, The Barber of Fleet Street: A Domestic Romance. The story of a London barber who kills and robs … Continue reading →

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Ken Hillis on Libraries

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Claudia Funke

If you didn’t have a chance to join us at Prof. Hillis’s lecture “From Alexandria to Google: The Mythic Quest for Universal Libraries”, tune into the “State of Things” podcast on “What is a Library in Today’s High Tech Tech … Continue reading →

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