Threshold Modernism: New Public Women and the Literary Spaces of Imperial London, by Elizabeth F. Evans
Rebecca Bowler on how middle-class women saw and were seen in the metropolis

Rebecca Bowler on how middle-class women saw and were seen in the metropolis

Deborah Rogers on a testament to literature’s power to sustain life in the face of the indignities of disease and age

Matthew Reisz discovers how intricate details in objects and substances can be captured with even the most basic equipment

Seemingly owned by an Oxbridge Essays shareholder, company offers up to 100,000 words of ‘model writing assistance’

UK universities and research institutes drawing up contingency plans for chaotic departure from European Union

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Tributes paid to leading research integrity expert

V-c suggests English regulator, created a year ago, is ‘probably not long for this world’

Four lab leaders explain how universities can help academics in the early days of running their first research group

The press may castigate ‘snowflake students’ over free speech, but resistance to far-right speakers has a long history, says Evan Smith

Evidence of strong public demand for access to papers is scant. Might a sophisticated database of lay summaries be more valuable?

The women’s rights activist on balancing fun and purpose and growing up as the great-granddaughter of the leader of the British suffragette movement