Personal recommendations of selected Web Links

 See also - Classic Links from 1995

Music

Best of British

    BBC -- British Broadcasting Corporation
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/

    Martin Baker -- Ejector Seats
    http://www.martin-baker.co.uk/

    Oxford Instruments
    http://www.oxford-instruments.com/

    Durston Rolling Mills -- W. Durston Limited of Chesham
    http://www.durston.com/

    Laphroaig -- Islay Malt Whisky
    http://www.laphroaig.com/

    Sterling Inkjet-- cheap bubble jet cartridges
    http://www.sterling-inkjet.co.uk/

    Lloyd Loom -- W. Lusty & Sons Ltd, Lloyd Loom furniture since 1922
    http://www.lloyd-loom.co.uk/

    Information Press is Oxford's leading printer for commercial, academic, charity and scientific printing. Short run books a speciality. Printers based in Eynsham in Oxfordshire offering a quality service across the UK.
    http://www.informationpress.com/

    Blenheim Colour -- located at Eynsham, Oxford, a Reprographic Digital Data Management company specialising in typography, print design, reprographics using Taiga workflow system, film, computer to plate (ctp), and colour proofing. Pre-Press facilities in Oxfordshire. Digital Cromalin B2, Black Magic proof to Epson 9600, film output on Screen imagesetters, Screen CtP production. Digital asset management, archiving, book production, Screen drum scanning.
    http://www.blencolour.com/

    Infotype Ltd are specialists in all types of journal production. Based in Eynsham near Oxford and serving Oxfordshire and all the UK.
    http://www.infotype.co.uk/

    Britannia Print Finishers of Eynsham are specialists in lamination and other finishes for the printing industry.

    Oxford University Press is Britain's premier academic publisher. It is a department of the University of Oxford and furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide.
    http://www.oup.co.uk/

    Robert Horne Group are suppliers of paper and board.
    http://www.roberthorne.co.uk/

    JASSO -- the Jewellery and Silver Society of Oxford -- is a registered charity which exists to advance the education of the public in the arts and crafts of jewellery and silversmithing. Based in Abingdon, Oxfordshire.
    http://pages.zoom.co.uk/leveridge/jasso.html

    Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) is one of 47 Wildlife Trusts across the UK working to achieve the shared aim of securing a better future for wildlife.
    http://www.bbowt.org.uk/

    Who's Who in Gold and Silver is the Goldsmiths' Company's online directory providing access to the work of over 140 jewellers and silversmiths and provides an illustrated portfolio of work for each designer, along with descriptions, price guides and biographical information.
    http://www.whoswhoingoldandsilver.com

Research compilations - authoritative and meticulous

Fascinating Stories

Words and Phrases

Good Books

    The Voyage of the Arctic Tern by Hugh Montgomery
    http://www.arctictern.com/

    Review from The Times (29 May 2002)
    ...
    Fortunately, Montgomery was never warned by publishers' readers and agents that a long novel in verse was never going to be the next Harry Potter. Montgomery, an intensive care consultant and scientific resarcher, wrote Voyage of the Arctic Tern purely for the entertainment of his godchildren.
      The most lasting children's books are usually those written for pleasure alone and the result is a tour de force -- a beautifully illustrated (by Nick Poulis), completely accessible, highly atmospheric adventure story about piracy on the Spanish Main, ghosts, revenge and redemption -- written entirely in verse.
      Just by itself, Montgomery's story of the Flying Dutchman-style fisherman who is doomed to wander the earth until he has paid for betraying his village to pirates would have made a fairly good yarn. But writing it as a long, conversational ballad, using a variety of verse styles to suit the pace of each chapter, was a very clever stroke.
      The verse is sometimes a little bumpy -- but it shows children that poetry can be accessible, understandable and even mimic the rhythms of modern speech.
    ...

    Weg-wyzer voor Aankomende Goud en Zilversmeeden. Voorhandelende veele weetenschappen, die Konsten raakende ... voor alle Jonge Goud en Zilver-Smeeden. by Willem van Laer, Amsterdam, Fredrik Helm, 1723.
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    A 1723 treatise on silversmithing and allied crafts by Zwolle silversmith Willem van Laer (1674-1722).

Playtime

Wikipedia

    Wikipedia -- an open content encyclopedia.
    http://www.wikipedia.com/

    Roald Dahl -- biography and bibliography of Roald Dahl.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald Dahl

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