The Social Life of Books: Reading Together in the Eighteenth-Century Home, by Abigail Williams
Bibliophiles in the 1700s liked soundbites and sharing. Are we so different, asks Valerie Sanders
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Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance: The Mirror up to Nature, by John H. Astington
Peter J. Smith on a study of the interrelationship between visual culture and the theatre in 16th- and 17th-century England
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What are you reading? – 10 August 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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We must rescue social science research from obscurity
The publication game that researchers are obliged to play has stripped the purpose out of social research. Time to change the rules, says Yiannis Gabriel
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Danes step away from patenting in favour of ‘open science’
Aarhus University has signed up companies to fund fundamental research in what it calls a ‘patent-free playground’
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The steel city forging a university-industry-community alloy
John Morgan witnesses a pioneering collaboration between two Sheffield universities, drawing upon the city’s manufacturing heritage to become a hub of industrial innovation and a model of civic...
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Books interview: Rita Chin
The professor of history discusses the ‘crisis of multiculturalism in Europe’
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The Toxic University: Zombie Leadership, Academic Rock Stars, and Neoliberal Ideology, by John Smyth
Book of the week: A cancerous, consumer-driven capitalism has weakened higher education, says David Wheeler
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Clearing ‘set to be more competitive than ever’
Dip in number of applications puts students in the driving seat, say sector experts
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The week in higher education: 10 August 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Laurie Taylor – 10 August 2017
The official weekly newsletter of the University of Poppleton. Finem respice!
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Turn the tide of negativity with some show and tell
Institutions are feeling under attack; they need to counter their critics by showing proudly and publicly the immense good work they do