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The mouth may be presented and understood in different ways, be subject to judgement by others and, as we age, may intrude on everyday life due to problems that affect oral health. However, research that considers older people's experiences concerning their mouths and teeth is limited. This paper reports on qualitative research with 43 people in England and Scotland, aged 65–91, exploring the significance of the mouth over the lifecourse. It uses the concept of 'mouth talk' to explore narratives of maintaining, losing and replacing teeth. Participants engaged in 'mouth talk' to downplay the impact of the mouth, demonstrate socially appropriate ageing, and distance themselves from 'real' old age by retaining a moral identity and sense of self. They also found means to challenge dominant discourses of ageing in how they spoke about missing teeth. Referring to Leder's notion of 'dys-appearance' and Gilleard and Higgs' work on the social imaginary of the fourth age, the study illustrates the ways in which 'mouth talk' can contribute to sustaining a sense of self in later life, presenting the ageing mouth, with and without teeth, as an absent presence. It also argues for the importance of listening to stories of the mouth in order to expand understanding of people's approaches to oral health in older age. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several abstracts are presented from the Otology Section Meetings of the Royal Society of Medicine on topics including validity of the Visible Ear Simulator as a tool for temporal bone dissection; and comparison of cervical and ocular vestibular-evoked myogenic potentials in patients with Ménière's disease.

Several abstracts are presented from the Otology Section Meetings of the Royal Society of Medicine on topics including stability of the bone-anchored hearing aid (BAHA) abutment; identification of genetic variants in otosclerosis; and characterization of eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Prices and Famine in Early Modern England: An Analysis of Tudor-Stuart Public Policy,' by Randall Nielsen, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Institutional Change in Income Assistance: Fiscal Federalism During the Lancashire Cotton Famine,' by L. Lynne Kiesling, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

Presents an abstract of the paper `Government Debt and Private Capital Markets: England, 1727-1837,' by Gregory Clark, during the fifty-fifth annual meeting of the Economic History Association.

The article discusses several papers presented at the conference "Church, Identity/ies and Postcolonialism," held at the University of Manchester in England from May 1 to 3, 2008. The topics of the papers included Anglican identities, the challenges facing the Anglican Communion and the relationship between the Church of England and the empire of Great Britain. Assistant Bishop Stephen Pickard, Steven Shakespeare of Liverpool Hope University in England and postcolonial theologian Robert Heaney were among the presenters featured.

Information about the several papers discussed at the annual meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain held at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne in England on March 30 to August 2, 2006 is presented. Linguists had special sessions on morphology, and dynamic syntax. A list of linguists and their papers is presented.

The National Evangelical Anglican Congress which took place at Keele University in April 1967 is widely acknowledged as a major watershed for the evangelical movement in the Church of England. This paper offers a fresh analysis of the event, based on detailed archival research. It argues that there was a decisive attitudinal shift at the congress, driven especially by the younger generation – from piety to policy, conservatism to radicalism, homogeneity to diversity, and exclusivism to ecumenism. It shows how in these four areas the Keele Congress established a new agenda for Anglican evangelicalism, a legacy which still continues today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information about several papers discussed at the Expert Meeting on Procedural Safeguards for Security Detention in Non-International Armed Conflict hosted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Chatham House on September 22-23, 2008 in London, England is presented. Topics include criminal and administrative detention, international armed conflict and occupation. The meeting features experts of military, academic and government and NGOs representatives.

Information on several papers discussed at a symposium held at the Faculty of Divinity in Cambridge, England in April 9, 2011 on the life and work of missionary bishop George Augustus Selwyn is presented. Topics include the work of Selwyn in New Zealand, his contribution towards the Anglican Communion, and its history and ecclesiology. It also celebrated the bicentenary of the birth of Selwyn. Several notable person attended the event including Warren Limbrick, Colin Podmore, and Bill Jacob.

Information about several papers discussed at a symposium "War and Peace in the Qajar Era" at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge, England in 2005 is presented. The International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA) conducted the symposium focusing on the themes of photography. There are 17 papers that discuss during the conference with keynote speeches of Dr. Rudi Matthee and Dr. Homa Katouzian.