At the time of the formation of the Women’s Equality party, Jo Swinson was women’s minister and a minister at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, not, as we described her in “Why the Women’s Equality party is long overdue” (Comment, 27 September, page 41), an aide to the then deputy prime minister, Nick Clegg.
The RSPCA is Britain’s oldest animal welfare organisation. It is not, as we described it in text and a subheading, an animal rights group (“£1,000 for the micro-pig in the window”, News, last week, page 5).
The Pierrepoint family served as hangmen in England for 50 years, beginning in 1901 with Henry Pierrepoint. He was followed by his brother, Thomas, and then his eldest son, Albert. In “Yard reveals the grisly clues to its most notorious murder cases” (News, last week, page 14), we said Albert hanged murderer Patrick Mahon in 1924, but Albert did not assume his grim responsibilities until 1932. We meant his uncle Thomas.
An exhibition on 19th-century computing pioneer Ada Lovelace opens at London’s Science Museum on Tuesday, not, as we say in today’s Tech Monthly, tomorrow.
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