Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire
Nicholas Thomas creates such a clear sense of these islands and their heterogeneous peoples as a pulsing, productive set of entities that it comes as a shock to look at the map in the front of the...
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The Darwinian Tourist: Viewing the World through Evolutionary Eyes
Darwin was a lucky tourist. He travelled widely for five years in the 1830s on board HMS Beagle, gathering data and specimens that enabled him to make spectacular scientific breakthroughs. He did not...
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Lessons Learned: Reflections of a University President
Sir Drummond Bone warms to a sensitive account of the pressures incurred in leading a university
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Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination
For a long while now the idea that modernity comes into being partly by casting off the medieval - leaving behind childish and spiritual things, as it were - has been readily accepted as an...
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Migration and Empire
Between the end of the wars against Napoleon in 1815 and the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939, some 50 million Europeans left for the New World. Almost two-fifths of these (more than 18...
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Underground resistance
Uta Kornmeier muses on the unexpected unearthing in Berlin of some remarkable survivors of Nazi cultural vandalism
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Diary
LondonFrankensteinMary Shelley's Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, published anonymously in 1818 when she was just 19, remains one of the archetypal statements of anxiety about modernity,...
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Catch me if you can
Our Head of Overseas Recruitment, Geraldine Transept, has refused to apologise for an open letter addressed to potential EU students that would appear to encourage a degree of duplicity.In the letter...
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Reynolds Price, 1933-2011
The best-selling author Reynolds Price was originally appointed to a three-year teaching post at Duke University in 1958, a contract that had "no chance of being extended".He died last month after 53...
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TV review: Science Under Attack
Gary Day winces at an encounter between Sir Paul Nurse and James Delingpole, where rationality loses
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Film review: All Good Things
Duncan Wu is impressed by an intelligent, complex murder story that has been poorly received in the US
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Age of retirement: American payouts target tenured staff
Cash-strapped states offer golden goodbyes to slash the wage bill. Jon Marcus reports
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Odds and quads: Sir Hamilton Harty's collapsible top hat
This collapsible top hat belonged to the conductor and composer Sir Hamilton Harty (1879-1941).
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Too small to fail
Tim Birkhead ponders the optimal size and location of the conference venue
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Research Intelligence - When every little helps
Amid tight budgets and uncertainty, Nerc's head looks to cost efficiency to protect its mission. Paul Jump reports