Innovation’s core values
Britain needs Fraunhofer centres as well as Catapults if the ‘invention revolution’ is to materialise, asserts Tim Holt
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Ciaran Driver, Andreas Hess, Karen McAulay, A. W. Purdue and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Archduke Franz Ferdinand Lives! A World Without World War I, by Richard Ned Lebow
Richard J. Evans considers the comfort of the counterfactual
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The Drama of Reform: Theology and Theatricality, 1461-1553, by Tamara Atkin
With the stage set for passionate religious argument, Helen Smith takes her seat
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Fragments: Transcribing the Holocaust, by Frances Rapport with Anka Bergman, Terry Farago and Edith Salter
Robert Eaglestone on an attempt to capture barbarism in poetry, not prose
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The Artistry of Exile: Romantic and Victorian Writers in Italy, by Jane Stabler
Jane Darcy on wanderers’ thoughts turning to home
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Wicked Intelligence: Visual Art and the Science of Experiment in Restoration London, by Matthew Hunter
William Poole enjoys the insights but prefers his prose less florid
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Coming Up Short: Working-class Adulthood in an Age of Uncertainty, by Jennifer M. Silva
Angelia Wilson hopes for a turn against therapy and towards political engagement in the US
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Top 10 Wellcome trust grant-funded institutions
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge each secured about a 25 per cent rise in grant funding from the Wellcome Trust last year, according to the organisation’s annual report
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9 January 2014
False fronts - Why some academics feel like frauds
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THE Scholarly Web - 9 January 2014
Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere
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Q&A with Joanna Newman
We speak to the new vice-principal (international) of King’s College London
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Mark Bickerton, 1963-2013
A passionate advocate of international education has died
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Grant winners - 9 January 2014
Leverhulme TrustResearch Project GrantsHumanitiesAward winner: Paul BotleyInstitution: University of WarwickValue: £184,040Isaac Casaubon in England (1610-14): a critical edition of his...
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Between the lines
Alan Collins, in his appropriately positive review of Douwe Draaisma’s The Nostalgia Factory: Memory, Time and Ageing (Books, 12 December), notes that “Draaisma writes in a lively style”, but fails...