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British Cinema of the 90s
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Modernity ushered in with a bang
India's Nuclear Bomb - New Nukes
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The cutting words of a gentle man
Talking Films
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Vulgar views in sterile ideas
Bold! Daring! Shocking! True!
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a modest Swiss autobiographer: " I have resolved on an enterprise which has no precedent, and which,...
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No Marx for young Mosley
Dumbing Down - The Idea of Culture
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Education has changed - but who changed it?
Reforming Higher Education
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Sports science: 25 years old
Tom Reilly, professor of sports science at Liverpool John Moores University, was a staff member at LJMU (then a polytechnic) when it set up Britain's first sports science degree in 1975. The...
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A peace of the action
For an expert on war, Michael Howard is much taken with the bits in between - peace. Harriet Swain talks to him It is a warm day and Sir Michael Howard suggests we take our tea - the shorter silver...
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A peaceful look at sights for war eyes
Jonathan Black looks at how working-class artists depicted British Tommys Sculptors face numerous problems when tackling the subject of war in peacetime. After the first world war, for example, they...
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Racial tolerance on a wartime ration
Britain stood alone against the Nazis in 1940, but as Sonya Rose explains, the thousands of blacks who came to its aid discovered racism and injustice and that the cliffs at Dover were very, very...
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Any excuse to miss the horror
Some soldiers faked VD to avoid combat, while more than 300 were shot for deserting. Joanna Bourke explores cowardice In war, mass slaughter is intentional. No one who has witnessed the agonised...
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Gulf war syndrome: a psychological illness?
We have just left behind a century of unprecedented violence. In the dawn of the 21st century, it is imperative that we study how different societies have participated in acts of war, often with...
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Higher channels
John Davies studies the broadcasting schedules (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week Murder, arson, suicide; baptisms, weddings, beauty contests; bankers, farmers and a crazed window-smasher...
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Goodbye to the garret
Will the students now displaying their work at degree shows nationwide ever make money out of it? Harriet Swain reports on efforts to teach business techniques to art students Starving in a garret...