Franco’s Crypt: Spanish Culture and Memory Since 1936, by Jeremy Treglown
Mercedes Camino on a cultural analysis spanning seven decades
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Pain and Retribution: A Short History of British Prisons, 1066 to the Present, by David Wilson
A millennium of jails, their inmates and those in charge makes riveting reading for Yvonne Jewkes
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Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents, by Lisa Gitelman
Colin Higgins on a history of printed materials that have uses but no readers
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The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths About Who We Are, by Matthew Hertenstein
Steven Schwartz on using physical attributes to predict people’s personalities and behaviours
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Records Ruin the Landscape: John Cage, the Sixties, and Sound Recording, by David Grubbs
David Revill tunes in to an ambivalence about capturing live musical performances
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The Oxford Map Companion: One Hundred Sources in World History, by Patricia Seed
Robert Mayhew is delighted to follow a determinedly non-Eurocentric cartographic collection through the ages
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Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States, by Denise Brennan
Lee Maril on how immigration policies prolong the misery of the exploited
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Forever blowing bubbles
“With some people, it’s moan, moan, moan.”That was how Professor D. W. Stout of our Department of Forensic Murder responded to the news from the Times Higher Education Best University Workplace...
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Sizing up a colossus
An eccentric approach helped build the Oxford University Press empire, argues Felipe Fernández-Armesto
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Commons speaker John Bercow to be Bedfordshire chancellor
Appointment revealed by Tory MP Nadine Dorries in Commons
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Switzerland downgraded by EU on research involvement
Move follows referendum decision to restrict immigration
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Nick Clegg says ‘wild’ fees fears unfounded
Nick Clegg has defended the Liberal Democrats’ decision to back higher fees and said “wild predictions” about their impact have proven unfounded
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How the government sees Moocs (video)
David Willetts, minister for universities and science, gives a few observations on how the coalition government views massive open online courses
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Hospitals with degree-educated nurses ‘have lower death rates’
Hospitals staffed by nurses educated to degree level have significantly lower death rates, a new study says.
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University donations could trigger visas for investors, suggests committee
Wealthy foreigners could gain visas and an accelerated route to British citizenship by donating large sums to universities, a new report suggests