Humanities

Milton expert Stanley Fish refuses to demonise the administrator and warns against influencing the moral character of students, he tells Matthew Reisz

To understand Rothko, one must cross boundaries. We should force students to do the same, says Mary Evans

A rich portrait of a country at the crossroads offers Richard King a sense of where it might be headed

Drummond Bone does not warm to a harsh critic but enjoys his cut-throat literary world

Charlotte Methuen on Early Protestantism's continuing influence on modern-day culture

A Classic Greek holiday via time-machine: Simon Goldhill strolls the agora and wishes you were here

Linda Colley tells Matthew Reisz how her work on 'Britishness' fed into an exhibition about the fight to enshrine liberty in the national fabric

The Freedom of Information Act could be a boon to scholars seeking hidden data. Zoe Corbyn reports

Convincing the public of merits of this field of research remains taxing, reports Melanie Newman

A.W. Purdue on ten years of adroit scholarship that helped to revitalise a discipline in Britain

It's credit where due, says Tom Rutter, in this account of the monetary context of the Bard's work

Richard Sha explores the influence of science on Romanticism

Sean Matthews discusses Raymond Williams' reliance on his own life experiences in his work

Talking dust-bowl blues: historian and resolutely amateur musician Will Kaufman hymns the world of Guthrie and Steinbeck

Renowned feminist writer Sheila Rowbotham talks to Matthew Reisz about writing from her own experience and imagining what it is like to be inside a homosexual man's body

Biblical values are needed to balance secular bias, claims lecturer. Melanie Newman reports

An Anglican academic is urging the party to discard the Thatcher legacy, writes Melanie Newman

Lecturer Rebekka Kill's love of DJ-ing and popular music led her to build links between academe and Britain's vibrant creative industries

Workshop set up after concern at the low success rate for grants in the field. Matthew Reisz reports

Fred Inglis is moved by a meditation on loss that transforms into an unforgettable study of America's soul

A hate figure of popular history reveals his more caring side to Tom Palaima in a vivid new treatment

Richard Evans, Cambridge's new Regius professor of modern history, finds much to be optimistic about in his discipline