Corrections and clarifications
Our obituary of Dame Averil Cameron stated that “in 1978 she became the first female head of the [King's College London] classics department, appointing Mary Beard to her first job there the following year.” In fact, Cameron did not become department head until 1984, though she did encourage Beard to apply for a lectureship in 1979 (23 April, Journal, p6).
A picture was described as being of Hulme Hippodrome in 1949; however, it was of a different music hall in the city, the Manchester Hippodrome at Ardwick Green (Look back in grandeur, 30 April, G2, p4).
Other recently amended articles include:
- Two Britons evacuated from hantavirus-hit ship ‘improving’ in hospital
- ‘Everything went black. Then fire poured down’: one man’s terror onboard a ship hit in the Iran war
- Meet the Americans who choose to live without a car in the US: ‘It takes some doing’
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