Learning to love biographers
Ben Pimlott stands up for a derided bunch of individuals. A colleague recently told me a story that could have been meant to put me my place. He had been talking over the brandy at an international...
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Silence greets Leviathan
As the state swelled in the 1940s, political theory retreated into the shadows. Jose Harris explains why. A striking feature of political life in Britain from the mid-17th to the early 20th century...
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Safety pins for a safety net
Nicholas Timmins describes the ever-troubled history of the country's welfare state. "It is the same story . . . in every social service. there is greater demand. . . because the standards of the...
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Summer semester pilots get Pounds 9 million
After years of debate on the academic year, pilot summer extension programmes are to begin in 1996. The Higher Education Funding Council for England agreed at a meeting this week to allot Pounds 9...
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Radical economists left out in the cold
Non-mainstream economists are being marginalised by research assessment, a new survey of the subject in universities argues. The report, The Academic Labour Process and the Research Assessment...
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Internet News
The THES Internet Service includes details of the contents of this week's newspaper and all our advertisements, updated on the Tuesday before publication of the paper. The service is availableon the...
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Britain 1945-95
(Photograph) - In at Number Ten: Since 1945 ten prime ministers have come and nine gone, yet serious historical study of "the twilight years" has only recently been attempted by academics. Next week...
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A hybrid in full blossom
Anglo-Irish
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A pox on the Englishman
Syphilis in Shakespeare's England
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Building the ideal engineer
Beyond Utility
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English is as English does
The Cultural Politics of English as an International Language
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Open season on the child crippler
A Summer Plague
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Remembrance day prayers
The Day the War Ended
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The crushed bowler hat
Company Man
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The empress's new clothes
The Raja's Magic Clothes