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The article reports on the innovative use of information technology towards the learning of British history in Great Britain. Accordingly, readers and researchers can have online access to a wealth of British history, specifically in the 18th century parliamentary papers, through a public/private cooperative venture. Moreover, the collection of 18th century papers will be full-text searchable with hit-term highlighting, bibliographic data and subject indexing.

An interview is presented with author Sandra Hempel. Hempel states that the inspiration for her 2013 book "The Inheritor's Powder: A Tale of Arsenic, Murder & the New Forensic Science" came from a research paper on criminal poisoning in the 19th century. She states that her own research surprised her by the haphazard nature of criminal justice in that time. Hempel states that creating the book's structure was the most challenging part of its authorship.