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  1. Acquittal was just a chance in 73 million

    Misleading statistics may have convicted a mother of murder. Adam James reports Cheshire solicitor Sally Clark was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1999 for the murder of her two sons, 11-week-old...

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  2. 'We'll make Saturn by '70'

    In the late 1950s, Freeman Dyson worked on a project to turn weapons of mass destruction into an intergalactic fuel source. Helen Hague reports. When the young George Dyson told school pals in...

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  3. Where there's smokes, there's ire

    When Nottingham University accepted cash from a tobacco company a storm erupted - staff quit and cancer charities were furious. Tony Tysome talks to researcher David Thurston, who left, and those who...

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  4. New key in same old lock

    Can fresh approaches to history stand the test of time, asks David Cannadine, who opens four pages on 'rewriting the past', the theme of the Anglo-American Conference of Historians. In What is...

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  5. Science's struggle to mould imperial subjects

    'Native' scholars used to help transmit knowledge of western science to Indians, undermining the British effort to present European learning as an example of civilisation superiority, argues Michael...

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  6. When a lottery was as good as it ever got

    Fortune and need, not a woman's morals, decided whether single mothers in 18th-century London could obtain charity for their children, writes Tanya Evans. Unmarried motherhood in 18th-century London...

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  7. Past, presence and future

    Academics can take advantage of the history boom without adding a sour note to the drum-and-trumpet variety parading on TV, argues Peter Mandler Is history the new rock 'n' roll? Journalistic...

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  8. Conference highlights

    While Eric Hobsbawm's plenary lecture is sure to mark the high point for many attending the conference - the 83-year-old radical is talking about his life in history (his autobiography is out in...

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  9. Right in the line of a republic's fire

    Jacques Chirac's party has swept to power with a huge majority, but, says Jim Shields, the left, once recovered, may just have to let history repeat itself. The parliamentary elections of June 16...

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  10. Tiger feat?

    The Australian Museum plans to clone the extinct thylacine from preserved DNA. Critics are sceptical, says Linda Vergnani. Unlocking a metal cabinet, Sandy Ingleby pulls out a shallow drawer with an...

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  11. Learned but weak?

    Rid of its funding role, the British Academy has more time for scholarship and global collaborations. But will giving up the purse strings lead to a loss of influence at home? Nicholas Mann writes....

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  12. Just how can a centenarian rediscover its youthful aim?

    The British Academy at 100 finds itself shorn of much of its research-granting powers and facing the prospect of becoming a self-perpetuating club for old folk. Harriet Swain reports on how it...

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