Birkbeck, University of London - Theatre co-produces MA

'Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain' play at the Garrick Theatre, London, Britain

How young academics are breathing new life into Horrible Histories

As the celebrated children’s historical sketch show marks its 15th anniversary, Jack Grove speaks to its head writer, history producer and PhD researchers on how scholarly sleuthing has been crucial to its long success

By Jack Grove

25 April

Will the global culture wars save the humanities or destroy them?

Attacks by the likes of Donald Trump and Narendra Modi on how the humanities are taught speak to the enduring political power of these subjects despite their precarity within the academy, says Saikat Majumdar

By Saikat Majumdar

29 February

Richard Sennett: ‘I’ve always felt like a fish out of water in academia’

The feted urban sociologist Richard Sennett tells Matthew Reisz about how his former career as a cellist inspired his latest trilogy of books, why his ideal university would be more night school than Oxbridge college and why it helps him to imagine his readers as female biologists

By Matthew Reisz

15 February

Alan Johnson: ‘Tuition fees almost brought down Blair government’

As higher education minister in the Blair government, Alan Johnson steered plans for top-up fees of £3,000 through Parliament. As he returns to the sector in a new role, the former postman talks to John Morgan about why fee-funded university expansion remains the best hope for creating a fairer UK

By John Morgan

28 September

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