Shakespeare: From Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan, 1592-1623
Queen Elizabeth II opened the new Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon on 4 March, four years after it closed for a redevelopment costing £115 million. On 30 March, the coalition...
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The Lure of the Arena: Social Psychology and the Crowd at the Roman Games
Tom Palaima agrees that people's fascination with watching violence against others doesn't change
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Talking to the Enemy: Violent Extremism, Sacred Values, and What it Means to be Human
During the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln upbraided a critic by asking "do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" Scott Atran wants the US to follow Abe's example by, if not...
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Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next
As a scholar of scientific and technological utopias, I have read countless visions of the allegedly perfect society. It has long been common to depict a future society in which transportation is...
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The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
David Gewanter detects the inconvenient truths in a passionate look at a great British cultural export
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The Battle of the Styles: Society, Culture and the Design of a New Foreign Office, 1855-1861
The present-day Foreign Office in Whitehall is an imposing building...whose genesis is bizarre. In 1857 a competition was held to pick an architect, which provoked a huge row between two rival...
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Liberty's Exiles: The Loss of America and the Remaking of the British Empire
The American Revolution against British rule in the future US tore families apart. While Benjamin Franklin, American Patriot and inventor of the lightning rod, was in Paris drumming up support for...
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Grant winners
THE WELLCOME TRUSTEach winner will receive between £1 million and £3 million, with the total allocation worth £56 millionInvestigator Awards• Award winner: Jurg Bahler• Institution: University...
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BPP write-down raises penetrative questions
For-profit 'impairment' causes concern, but firm's chief hails 'shrewd move'. Simon Baker writes
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Evolutionary psychologists turn on controversial peer
An international group of more than 60 academics has accused a controversial evolutionary psychologist of refusing to engage in scientific dialogue, highlighting long-standing criticism of his work...
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School of Pharmacy documents reveal internal divisions over UCL decision
Questions have been raised over how the decision to merge the School of Pharmacy with University College London was reached, as a bitter rift between senior managers and some staff continues to...
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One front not enough: let's fight a total war
Delegates vote for a summer of discontent over pay and pensions. John Morgan reports
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Diverse motions: uncertain ratios and attacks on standing snout-to-snout
A diverse range of motions at the University and College Union congress covered worries over student-to-staff ratios, vice-chancellors standing "snout-to-snout in the trough" against their employees...
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Battle to regain respect is vital
As the new union president takes office, he tells John Morgan about his priorities for the future
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Husband and wife in data duplication papers probe
German university investigates allegations of research misconduct. Paul Jump reports