• An article about a reader who was wrongly pursued for an energy bill said the debt collection company, BW Legal, confirmed it had sent further payment demands after the customer disputed the bill. In fact, the company had said it did not contact the customer about the balance after that time, other than to request evidence of non-liability. We regret the error, which was made during editing (BW Legal is chasing a debt I don’t owe, 23 January, p63).
• In early editions last week, an article said that Eric Williams’s seminal book, Capitalism and Slavery, first published in the US in 1944, “continued to be spurned by British publishers until 1966, when a small university press gave it a very limited print run”. In fact, the UK publishing house was André Deutsch, which published the work in 1964, with a number of reprints over the next 20 years (Shunned critique of Britain’s slavery role finally hits bookshops, p31). In correcting this for later editions, we misspelled the surnames of two more authors published by André Deutsch, Margaret Atwood and VS Naipaul.
• A travel piece about sculpture trails (Time to get in shape, 23 January, Magazine, p43), which featured the New Art Centre at Roche Court in Wiltshire, referred to the Lord Nelson pub “in nearby Middleton”. That is the hostelry’s street address but the village is Winterslow.
• The psychologist whose work is shown in BBC Two’s Couples Therapy is Dr Orna Guralnik, not “Orla” (I’ve seen everything as a couples therapist. It’s not a job for the faint-hearted, 23 January, p46).
Other recently amended articles include:
Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn to see honorary university degrees revoked
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