A meeting in London at the beginning of the month kicked off the double celebration next year of Darwin's birth 200 hundred years ago and the first publication of the Origin of Species 50 years later. A number of events are planned which include a major television series and exhibitions in London, Cambridge and Washington. The celebration at the Linnean Society marked the original low-key start...

P atient safety seems irritatingly positive. Its scientific literature and conference proceedings are replete with tales of improvement and stories of success. This is partly understandable. It is difficult to move people and organisations to change when the outcome is uncertain; hospitals and funding organisations do not like to hear that projects in which they have invested have failed; ‘‘saf...

Compared to the triumphalist celebrations at the beginning of the Popular Front government in 1936, the Bastille Day ceremonies that were held in France three years later appear to have been rather perfunctory exercises that took place in the context of a paralyzed political system. From an Algerian perspective, however, the celebrations of 1939 were far from unspectacular. In the runup to the ...

National celebrations and commemorations are believed to increase national cohesion. It is unknown however who participates in these activities. In this contribution, we address to what extent socialization by the parents and school, and integration into religious intermediary groups affect participation in national celebrations and commemorations. With the strong reference to the relevance of ...