The Axe and the Oath: Ordinary Life in the Middle Ages
Despite the awkward translation, Helen Castor is moved by an absorbing study of medieval life
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European Governmentality: The Liberal Drift of Multilevel Governance
From the very beginning of European integration in the 1950s onwards, observers have disagreed about whether the process is driven by European states and adds to their power or, on the contrary, sets...
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Blog Theory: Feedback and Capture in the Circuits of Drive
Blog Theory brings the heavy guns of literary theory to bear on the purportedly trivial activity of blogging. The usual artillery is deployed - a bombardment of arguments from Slavoj Žižek and...
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Two cultures, one song
Artist-in-residence schemes create a fertile breeding ground for fresh ideas, as scientists and engineers share their knowledge and insights with those in the humanities. Hannah Fearn discovers how...
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Wings but no prayers
Willy Maley on a brooding two-hander's twitchy vision of the end of love - and possibly the end of times
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Daytime TV: States of mind
Can dreams predict the future - or even influence it? Gary Day watches a personal investigation
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Diary
LondonBritish Library pockets PinterMore than 50 medals, plaques and artworks won by Harold Pinter have been acquired by the British Library under a government scheme aimed at keeping cultural...
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The Pick - Blues and Greys in the UK
Walking tours of American Civil War connections in LondonThe City, Marylebone and Mayfair, daily except MondayIn the US, the American Civil War is much studied in universities and is a focus of...
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Benoît Mandelbrot, 1924-2010
A mathematician who transformed our understanding of "complex systems" - from the shape of clouds to the performance of the stock market - has died.Benoît Mandelbrot was born into a Jewish family in...
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Gone but not forgotten
We are pleased to announce that all members of academic staff have been invited to attend the funeral service for the Quality Assurance Agency, which will be held shortly in a centrally located...
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Browne and the CSR: it is time for Plan B (part 1)
Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, says that implementing the Browne Review will see our world-class university system through a funding "valley of death" ("The sum of our worst fears: UUK...
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Browne and the CSR: it is time for Plan B (part 2)
Lord Browne and his colleagues were asked to inquire into higher education funding and student finance. Their remit did not extend to the many other matters on which they have seen fit to pronounce...
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Browne and the CSR: it is time for Plan B (part 3)
The Comprehensive Spending Review's removal of a high proportion of university funding follows hard on the heels of the recommendations in the Browne Review, which go far beyond the terms of...
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Browne and the CSR: it is time for Plan B (part 4)
The Comprehensive Spending Review's cuts will have grave economic and social implications for the "Big Society" beyond the college gates. With state-funded arts programmes cut to the bone, the...
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Browne and the CSR: it is time for Plan B (part 5)
As someone who was intimately involved in the extensive consultation over the Office of the Independent Adjudicator and its subsequent establishment, I was surprised to learn that the Browne Review...