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Happily ever after?
Which fairy tale is the greatest of them all? Sally Feldman on enduring themes
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Belle, directed by Amma Asante
Catherine Clinton admires the story of a mixed-race girl with an aristocratic upbringing told against the background of the abolition of slavery
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Philip Kemp, Peet Morris, James I. Rogers, Bruce Scharlau and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Cracking the Particle Code of the Universe, by John W. Moffat
A former Higgs boson sceptic is a formidable guide on the hunt for the elusive particle
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Guilty Knowledge, Guilty Pleasures: The Dirty Art of Poetry, by William Logan
Duncan Wu on a collection of essays and reviews from a discerning critic
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Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era, by Saladin Ambar
Hakim Adi finds an analysis of an often overlooked speech reveals much about the activist’s views
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Revolutionizing Retail: Workers, Political Action, and Social Change, by Kendra Coulter
Amanda Pyman on the changes necessary to improve conditions for shop workers
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Outside the Gates of Eden: The Dream of America from Hiroshima to Now, by Peter Bacon Hales
Marilyn Young on a cultural history of the US from the atomic age to the present
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Campus close-up: London South Bank University
Vice-chancellor to split institution’s four faculties into seven in drive to boost intake and forge new links with industry
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Complaints to the OIA fall for the first time
Better university grievance processes may be behind the drop in adjudicator’s caseload
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QAA warning over UK international branch campus definition
Standards watchdog calls on universities to beware misleading students about overseas facilities
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A State of Play: British Politics on Screen, Stage and Page, from Anthony Trollope to The Thick of It, by Steven Fielding
Vernon Bogdanor has a few points of order on an analysis of political fiction’s wider effects
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Richard J. Evans on a most unusual college
The provost-elect of Gresham College examines the institution’s long and surprising history
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Sharing is a way of life for millions on Academia.edu
The head of the online academic social network discusses open goals and communal joys