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State of Emergency: The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974
When Edward Heath became prime minister in 1970, he declared that his aim was to lead a revolution - a quiet revolution - in the way Britain was governed. Less than four years later that revolution...
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Genetic Twists of Fate
Suppose you and your buddy are accomplished human geneticists. You hold chairs, run labs and edit journals, and have made real contributions to the field. As the work advanced, you realised this...
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Networks, Crowds and Markets: Reasoning about a Highly Connected World
John Gilbey connects with his inner geek as he enjoys an examination of all things networked
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The Classical Country House: From the Archives of Country Life
Ever since 1897, the magazine Country Life has published articles about country houses, illustrated with photographs specially taken for the purpose. This archive is a wonderful resource, and of...
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Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
No one doubts that the fate of the populations of the European borderlands between Poland and Russia in the age of total war was an atrocious one. Tens of millions died; not just in the barbaric...
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Diary
StockholmNasa - A Human AdventureThe Tekniska Museet (Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology), founded in 1936, offers "an exciting journey from the infancy of industry to grand visions...
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The Pick - After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment
Credit: Patience (After Sebald)/Grant GeeAfter Sebald: Place and Re-EnchantmentAldeburgh, SuffolkThey sound like an unlikely coupling.W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), for many years professor of European...
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Our vice-chancellor's on the job - official
"Not our vice-chancellor." That was the forthright response of Ted Odgers to the assertion by Tim Wilson, the outgoing vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, that "a vice-chancellor's...
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David Bradby, 1942-2011
David Bradby was an "incredibly ethical" scholar with a "dry wit" who spent his academic career working to promote the study of non-English theatre.He was born on February 1942 and studied modern...
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TV review: Hattie
Was Hattie Jacques' passion for her driver simply a response to her own self-loathing, asks Gary Day
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Film review: Biutiful
Philip Dodd finds Javier Bardem the pivotal centre of a film about our inescapable mortality
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The Wal-Mart ethos attracts few buyers among US lecturers
Staff chafe but administrators press on with efforts to instil consumer focus. Jon Marcus writes
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What happens in Vegas
...is cheer and courtesy, says Sally Feldman, and we could do with a little here
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Odds and quads
This wedding dress and these accessories, made entirely of glass fibre, were worn by Helen Nairn Munro on the day she married W.E.S. Turner in 1943.