The Great British Dream Factory: The Strange History of our National Imagination, by Dominic Sandbrook
Fred Inglis on the innumerable shows and figures from 50 years of popular culture
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Is industry funding undermining trust in science?
How valid are fears that financial conflicts of interest are damaging confidence in academic research?
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Soul Machine: The Invention of the Modern Mind, by George Makari
Janet Sayers on a study of the emergence of a new way of thinking about our inner world
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A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing Aid, by Nancy H. Kwak
Danny Dorling sees how bricks and mortar became part of the arsenal with which the US fought the Cold War
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Making Nature: The History of a Scientific Journal, by Melinda Baldwin
Helen Bynum lauds an exploration of the moral and social aspects of science through the evolution of a leading publication
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On Stalin’s Team: The Years of Living Dangerously in Soviet Politics, by Sheila Fitzpatrick
Lara Cook lauds a study of the comrades who kept the Man of Steel company for 30 years
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What are you reading? – 29 October 2015
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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QAA acts on concerns over college provision of Pearson programmes
Fifteen per cent of recommendations issued to further education colleges by watchdog relate to courses leading to the FTSE 100 firm’s qualifications
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‘Are you a construction worker?’ Life as a black Rhodes scholar
Donald Brown shares the experiences that prompted him to talk about ‘institutional racism’ at Oxford
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The week in higher education - 29 October 2015
The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press
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Grant winners – 29 October 2015
A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash
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We must act now to save part-time university education
Higher fees are to blame for plunging enrolments, says Claire Callender, and dismantling of provision may make loss irreversible
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Climate change will take all our expertise
Universal challenges demand cross-disciplinary focus, argues Dame Julia King, and a thematic approach to university teaching will be essential