Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London, by Angus McLaren
Clive Bloom enjoys a sociological study of why a group of rich layabouts became crooks – and how society dealt with them
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Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton, by Rob Iliffe
God was a priority for the often unchristian soul who discovered gravity, says Graham Farmelo
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From Madman to Crime Fighter: The Scientist in Western Culture, by Roslynn D. Haynes
Do you recognise seven stereotypes in literature and film? Richard Joyner appraises a study ranging from Sherlock to Frankenstein
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Books interview: Kate Flint
The author of Flash! on photography in fiction and poetry, and the power of the photographic image
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USS pension reform plan an ‘undesirable’ and ‘retrograde’ step
Pensions expert criticises Universities UK’s ‘outdated’ proposal to end defined benefit scheme for almost 200,000 staff
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What are you reading? – 23 November 2017
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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EU’s ‘Bologna 2.0’ vision threatens to leave UK behind
British universities face potential challenges if they are left outside the ‘Sorbonne process’, experts warn
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The week in higher education – 23 November 2017
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media
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Research impact is more than a multimillion-dollar question
Australia’s new impact assessment exercise recognises cultural, social and environmental impacts, but there is a danger that economic impact will override everything, says David Lloyd
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Does the TEF spell the end for quality assurance?
The TEF’s new name may be less misleading, but its incentives remain just as perverse, says Roger Brown
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Who can resist the pleasure of Schadenfreude?
Academic disputes can be acrimonious and unedifying, but victory is always sweet, says Shahidha Bari
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Universities must be places of intellectual discomfort
If the Office for Students ever intervenes over freedom of speech, it will only be to widen it, says Michael Barber