Articles written by Erin Britton

Rich in historical detail and beautifully written, Elizabeth the Queen is Alison Weir's stunning biography of Elizabeth I.

Jan 18, 2009 - Erin Britton

Kate Summerscale chronicles the work of Jack Whicher, one of Britain's first detectives, and the gruesome murder case that nearly ended his career.

Jan 13, 2009 - Erin Britton

Simon Brighton's In Search of the Knights Templar is the first comprehensive survey of all of the Templar sites in Britain.

Jan 5, 2009 - Erin Britton

In criminal law, mens rea - the guilty mind - is usually one of the necessary elements of a crime.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

Strict liability makes a person responsible for the loss or damage caused by their acts or omissions regardless of culpability.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

Actus reus comprises all the elements of the statutory or common law definition of a crime save those to do with the defendant's state of mind.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

On Liberty was a radical volume at the time of publication advocating as it did the moral and economic freedom of individuals from the state.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

The Blind Watchmaker offers an inspiring and accessible introduction to evolution, one of the most important scientific discoveries of all time.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

Ohm's law states that the current through a conductor between two points is proportional to the potential difference and inversely proportional to the resistance.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

Planck's revolutionary idea of describing light statistically rather than as a continuous wave seeded the birth of quantum physics.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

In Sherlock Holmes' world, the tricksters, thieves and murderers who stalk their prey undetected use the strangest and most sinister of weapons.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

A coded message summons Sherlock Holmes to the aide of Jack Douglas but, before he can get to him, Douglas is found dead.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

In The Hound of the Baskervilles Sherlock Holmes faces his most challenging case yet.

Dec 28, 2008 - Erin Britton

The great Sherlock Holmes is back from the dead and is once more devoting his life to solving the seemingly unsolvable crimes that plague London.

Dec 27, 2008 - Erin Britton

The eleven mysteries gathered in this second collection of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson's adventures reveal the brilliant detective at the height of his powers.

Dec 27, 2008 - Erin Britton

A request from Miss Mary Morstan plucks Sherlock Holmes from a drug-induced stupor and presents him with a most intriguing case.

Dec 27, 2008 - Erin Britton

Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet first introduced the world to iconic consulting detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful companion Doctor Watson.

Dec 26, 2008 - Erin Britton

Good arguments need to be rationally justified and this cannot be done without firm and rigorous underpinning.

Dec 25, 2008 - Erin Britton

In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the system of morality is based on the idea of divine command.

Dec 25, 2008 - Erin Britton

If a substance is cooled enough it will become so cold that its atoms stop moving completely. This hypothetical point is called absolute zero.

Dec 25, 2008 - Erin Britton

Brownian motion describes the jerky movements of small particles as they are buffeted by invisible water or gas molecules.

Dec 25, 2008 - Erin Britton

Shine white light through a glass prism and the emerging rays of light will spread out in a rainbow of colours.

Dec 25, 2008 - Erin Britton

Machiavelli's The Prince is known for its ruthless tactics for gaining absolute power and for its abandonment of conventional morality.

Dec 24, 2008 - Erin Britton

The tendency of hot and cold bodies to exchange heat and move towards an even temperature is captured in the second law of thermodynamics.

Dec 23, 2008 - Erin Britton

The unnamed Bride is shot and left for dead on her wedding day by the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad. After four years in a coma she awakes....

Dec 23, 2008 - Erin Britton

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits and their sanity as they endure terrible abuse as the inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.

Dec 23, 2008 - Erin Britton

In 1950s Connecticut, housewife Cathy Whitaker faces the breakdown of her marriage and mounting racial tensions in her community.

Dec 23, 2008 - Erin Britton

A review of Barack Obama's moving account of his journey towards understanding both his father's life and his own cultural inheritance.

Dec 22, 2008 - Erin Britton

Used in engineering, construction and materials science, Hooke's law shows how materials deform when forces are applied.

Dec 22, 2008 - Erin Britton

First stated by physicist Emil Clapeyron, the ideal gas law describes how the pressure, temperature and volume of a gas are all interrelated.

Dec 22, 2008 - Erin Britton

Nietzsche's seminal work tells of the travels and pedagogy of Zarathustra, the Persian prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism.

Dec 17, 2008 - Erin Britton

In Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes set out his doctrine of the foundation of states and legitimate government based on social contract theories.

Dec 16, 2008 - Erin Britton

Is knowledge gained through the use of reason? Or does it perhaps stem from the experience of the senses?

Dec 16, 2008 - Erin Britton

A mathematician, astronomer and astrologer, Johannes Kepler was a key figure in the 17th century scientific revolution.

Dec 16, 2008 - Erin Britton

Ernst Mach was an Austrian physicist and philosopher who established important principles of optics, mechanics, motion, wave dynamics and sensory experience.

Dec 16, 2008 - Erin Britton

Newton's law of gravitation is one of the most powerful ideas in physics, explaining much of the behaviour of the physical world.

Dec 16, 2008 - Erin Britton

As well as transforming the study of astronomy, Kepler's three laws laid the foundations for Newton's law of gravity.

Dec 16, 2008 - Erin Britton

Essentially an inquiry into morality, Republic is the central work of Plato, the western world's most influential philosopher.

Dec 14, 2008 - Erin Britton

Sir Isaac Newton was a pioneering physicist and mathematician and one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time.

Dec 14, 2008 - Erin Britton

Newton's three laws of motion prove relationships between the forces acting on a body and the motion of the body.

Dec 14, 2008 - Erin Britton

Mach's Principle states that 'mass there influences inertia here'.

Dec 14, 2008 - Erin Britton

In his Allegory of the Cave Plato seeks to illuminate his distinctive views on reality and our knowledge of it.

Dec 12, 2008 - Erin Britton

The study of ethics, or moral philosophy, can be divided into three broad areas: meta-ethics, normative ethics and applied ethics.

Dec 11, 2008 - Erin Britton

In the UK, the differing interpretations of equality fall within two categories: those involving formal equality and those involving substantive equality.

Dec 11, 2008 - Erin Britton

Written by a nameless author in the mid 16th century in the Quiche language with Latin characters, the Popol Vuh is a valuable record of pre-Hispanic Maya thought.

Dec 10, 2008 - Erin Britton

A review of Jenny Uglow's excellent biography of the extraordinary characters that made up the Lunar Society of Birmingham.

Nov 26, 2008 - Erin Britton

Examining the beliefs and actions of conscientious objectors, Will Ellsworth-Jones' We Will Not Fight offers a unique perspective on the First World War.

Nov 22, 2008 - Erin Britton

A cup of tea is the classic British beverage but taking a bit of care while brewing the tea can make it an even better drink.

Nov 14, 2008 - Erin Britton

David Starkey is one of the greatest historians of all time, an excellent writer, an authoritative speaker and, at one time at least, Britain's rudest man.

Nov 14, 2008 - Erin Britton

Jeremy Paxman's The English is filled with stories and anecdotes that build to form an interesting, if rather limited, picture of a country and its people.

Nov 14, 2008 - Erin Britton