A collation of the Gospel texts contained in Durham Cathedral mss. A.II.10, A.II.16 and A.II.17, and some provisional conclusions therefrom regarding the type of Vulgate text employed in Northumbria in the 8th century, together with a full description of each ms.

Part I. A description of the types of Latin Gospel texts in use in the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon Churches: (a) The Latin Gospels in the Celtic Church - the evidence of Patrick, Gildas and Columbanus; the early, seventh century, MSS.; the text of the "Celtic mixed family": a discussion of the reputed characteristics of that family and the conclusion that those characteristics indicate a common editorial tradition rather than a common textual tradition. (b) The Latin Gospels in England - in the south; in Northumbria; the conclusion that the Gospel texts in the early Ango-Saxon Gospel Books show a continuing influence of Italian text-types. Part II. The early history of Durham A.II.10, A.II.16 and A.II.17 - conclusion that both parts of A.II.17 (foll. 2-102, Majuscule, and foll. 103 - 111, Uncial) came from Lindisfarne with the community of St. Cuthbert and that A.II.17, Uncial, is part of the exemplar of the Lindisfarne Gospels; earliest eveidence for A.II.16 being at Durham is twelfth century; the fourteenth century catalogues; Rud and the loan of A.II.16 and A.II.17 to Richard Bentley; earliest eveidence for A.II.10 not until the nineteenth century. Part III. Full collation of the texts of A.II.10, A.II.16 and A.II.17 (excluding John in A.II.16 and the Uncial leaves in A.II.17) against the text of Wordsworth and White, Novum Testamentum Domini Nostri Iesu Christi Latine, pars prior - Quattuor Evangelia, Oxford 1889-1898, and description of the individual mss. (a) A.II.10 (and C.II.13 and E.III.20) contains an Old Latin section (MK.II:12 - VI:6) with a text very close to the of Dublin, Trinity College Ms. 55; the rest of the text appears to be Old Latin corrected against the Vulgate. (b) A.II.17 (foll 2-102) belongs textually to the OXZ, mixed Italian, tradition; also certain points of contact with the text of the Book of Kells. (c) A.II.16 (foll. 1-102) - the text of Mark is very close to that in A.II.17; the text of Matthew is similar to that found in the Echternach Gospels (Paris lat. 9389), with certain "Celtic" readings; Luke presents a mixed text with many points of contact with the texts of the "Celtic" Vulgate

When do children get burnt?

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd and ISBI. All rights reserved. Burns are a cause of more than 5000 paediatric hospital admissions per year in England and Wales. Injury prevention and service provision may be better planned with knowledge of burn timing. Prospectively collected records from 1st January 2010 to 31st December 2011 were analysed. All episodes involving patients less than 16 years of age reviewed by the South West Children's Burns Centre were included. Data was collected from 1480 records to investigate seasonal, weekly, and daily variation. Day to day analysis showed significantly more burns occurred on Saturday and Sunday than Monday-Friday (p 10% body surface area), 38% occurred after 19:00. There was no statistically significant variation in the monthly (p = 0.105) or seasonal (p = 0.270) distribution of burns. Bank holidays did not cause a statistically significant increase in numbers. Injury prevention strategies are likely to have most volume impact by increasing awareness of the peak time for burns in children, enabling parents at home with young children to modify any risky behaviour and by targeting older children and their behaviour

‘The Beauty of a Sick Room’: Family Care for the Dying in the English Upper and Middle Class Home c.1840-c.1890

With the standard of care provided by hospitals and nursing homes to those nearing the end of their lives in Britain the subject of much concern and when increasing numbers of people would like to die at home, it is a timely moment to consider end of life care in the 19th century, when death at home was the norm and families had a leading role in providing care. This was also a period of change that laid the foundations for the 20th century model of hospital-centred palliative care. The article examines the experiences of middle and upper class carers, the objectives of care, including the importance of spiritual care, and the practicalities of providing care in the home. It also considers the support available to through informal networks of extended family, friends and neighbour and suggests aspects of care that may still have relevance to palliative care practice today