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This paper aims to highlight the impact that Covid-19 has had on the quality of education in prisons. This study considers the restrictive approaches taken by Her Majesty’s Prison Service during this challenging time, to argue that prisoner education is not being adequately prioritised. This study highlight issues relating to the digital divide in prisons and the lack of technological advancement, which could improve educational continuity and in-cell learning.

This study provides an examination of the broad impact the national pandemic has had on prisons and punishment, Covid-19 National Frameworks and policies relating to prison restrictions, the movements within prisoner education policy, scholarship and reflections from delivering Learning Together in HMP Full Sutton, to argue that prisoners are at the bottom of the educational hierarchy in terms of delivery, innovation and prioritisation of learner needs. However, this study proposes that some of the technologically enhanced learning is a potential solution, to transform educational equity and to reduce the digital divide.

This study highlights that education in prisons has taken a sudden and substantial deterioration. Findings suggest that there are few signs of this improving in the immediate future due to ongoing national restrictions. The Covid-19 prison restrictions further demonstrate the neglect of prisoners' educational needs. In addition, the national pandemic has highlighted the lack of use of technology within educational delivery in prisoners. However, findings suggest that through engaging digital learning platforms and the greater inclusions of technology in prisons, they can enhance educational opportunities and inclusive experiences for isolated learners.

This is a study piece with support from a review of policy and scholarship. This is not based on data collected with serving prisoners during the national pandemic.

This study provides an overview of the current restrictions and lockdowns in prison associated with the national pandemic. Contemporary consideration to this underexplored area is essential to highlight the severe deprivations of prisoners and the fundamental impact this has had on educational delivery and much anticipated progression. Nuanced approaches to increase the use of technology within prison education are considered, in light of the challenges the pandemic has spotlighted.

This is the second part of a detailed annotated chronology of significant events in the history of money in the context of social, economic, political and technological developments from the dawn of civilization until the closing years of the twentieth century. Part 2 covers events from the start of the industrial revolution onwards. This period saw major changes in the relative importance of coinage, paper money and bank money, as well as the beginnings of electronic money. These changes, and the financial effects of the Napoleonic and World Wars, the rise and decline of the British Empire, the emergence of the United States and Japan, decolonisation and Third World debt, and moves towards a single currency in Europe, are all covered.

This is the first part of a detailed annotated chronology of significant events in the history of money in the context of social, economic, political and technological developments from the dawn of civilization until the closing years of the twentieth century. Starting with the origins of money and of banking the chronology moves on to the development of coinage in Asia Minor and its extension by the conquests of Alexander and later Rome before proceeding to the start of the long history of the pound sterling. The origins of paper money in China, the re‐emergence of banking in Europe, the financial effects of various wars and conflicts and the age of exploration, and subsequent developments up to the threshold of the industrial revolution are all covered.

The purpose of this paper is to address the fact that whilst most providers of professional services in the UK are regulated by means of pre‐entry qualifications or required standards, those setting themselves up as estate agents face no such impediment. This is particularly surprising in that these practitioners are centrally involved in what is often the largest and most stressful of consumer transactions.

The paper traces the many and various attempts at establishing a regulatory framework, the many and various ways in which they failed, and current proposals for change.

It is asserted that more and better protection is owed to these vulnerable consumers. Whilst the majority of practitioners are members of one professional body or another, there remains a significant minority who are not, and that the time has come for universal regulation.

The paper is important in that it seeks to take a long view of a matter of public concern that has not been taken since the late 1960s.

WILLIAM DAVIES has been appointed City Librarian of Bradford in succession to Mr H Bilton, who is retiring. Bill Davies is presently Deputy City Librarian of Hull, having previously served in Stockton on Tees, Wellingborough North Riding County and Teesside Public Libraries. He is an ‘old boy’ of the Newcastle School of Librarianship and was President of the AAL in 1971.

The Financial Services and Markets Bill is an impressive attempt to revisit the field of financial regulation and to replace the existing regulatory structure with a single regulator with coherent powers. There is a danger, from the legal perspective, that the Dill is too widely drawn, vesting the new single regulator with too wide a discretion to formulate rules and policies which themselves will not be susceptible to legislative scrutiny.

Sustained growth in the short break market has enabled hotel companies to develop nationally recognised brands such as Thistle Hotels′ “Highlife Breaks”. Success in the serviced accommodation sector of this market critically depends on effective retail brand distribution and the responsiveness of managers in meeting consumer expectations. Some of the challenges for managers arising from a consumer research project undertaken by Highlife Breaks are considered.

Baker Perkins will be exhibiting two MPC/V compounding lines; a 330/660 litre Drydisperser high speed mixer/cooler combination and a laboratory double Z‐blade mixer‐extruder at the Europlastique Exhibition in Paris, 3–10 June.

What is the function of the annual Public Libraries Group Weekend School, other than to prove that even if our public libraries are not all‐singing, all‐dancing, our chief librarians are? The final plenary session of this year's, for example, was self‐mockingly described as ‘the annual bloodletting’, raising spectres of Ancient Rome, innocent Christians, ravenous lions, bloodthirsty spectators. Yet the actual proceedings would scarce have raised a blush on a maiden's cheek, had any been present by the end of the course. Even the eagerly‐donned hair shirts seemed to be bespoke.