The ones to watch
Thanks to the Centre for Science and Policy, a constellation of UK research stars gathered recently at the Royal Society to hear Sir Mark Walport and others ponder “future directions for scientific...
Thanks to the Centre for Science and Policy, a constellation of UK research stars gathered recently at the Royal Society to hear Sir Mark Walport and others ponder “future directions for scientific...
Roger Morgan’s review of the late Eric Hobsbawm’s Fractured Times: Culture and Society in the 20th Century (“Fragmentation of a framework”, Books, 11 April) remarks on the historian’s “long-held...
Janet Fluellen will not necessarily be able to claim a first for the University of Poppleton if the institution launches a course in creative history, although I would still encourage her to consider...

Weekly transmissions from the blogosphere


Barbara Graziosi on a renowned reviewer’s disciplinary skirmishes

Stephen Halliday on a forgotten tragedy of the First World War

Shelley King on asking questions, realist fiction and female subjectivity in Victorian novels

Robert Eaglestone on the experiences of a Holocaust survivor and how he rebuilt his life afterwards

Jelena Obradovic-Wochnik on a study of the process of researching the Bosnian wars

The Politics of Exile reads like a novel, but it is an academic work that asks important questions about the research process and, specifically, researching wars such as the one that took place in...

Presumably, many people who become leading physicists - for example, Felix Weinberg, who was professor of combustion physics and a fellow of the Royal Society - display an early curiosity about the...

Shelley King is dazzled by a recasting of 19th-century classics as accounts of female agency

What would the world look like if a young Cambridge dropout named Charles had fallen overboard from a Royal Navy survey vessel sometime in the 1830s? If the man in question was the one who would go...

Sir Edgar Speyer (1862-1932) was born in New York of German Jewish descent, worked in Germany in the family banking business and came to England at the age of 24, where he settled into a successful...