Picturing Politics: Exploring the Political Poster in BritainPeople's History Museum, Manchester, until 17 June 2012For the 1929 general election, the Labour Party created a poster of a heroic worker...
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Martin Scorsese's film shows that none of life's strings can last, says Gary Day
Philip Dodd is disturbed by a vision of hell, where the audience is forced into unendurable complicity
"Slightly provocative, slightly cocky, but always intellectually impressive," Kevin Sharpe was a unique scholar, and one of the first to embrace the importance of interdisciplinarity.Born on 26...
'Transnational' education isn't dying, but it is changing. Jon Marcus reports on Western institutions' moves to mitigate the risks of foreign outposts, thanks to a little help from their hosts
Asia, India and Middle East are becoming study-abroad destinations of choice, reports Jon Marcus
University of OxfordJane HumphriesA "number-crunching economic historian" has won the Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize, awarded for an outstanding book on European economic history. Jane Humphries,...
These "neck pieces" - necklaces made entirely of hair - are the work of Kerry Howley, a recent jewellery graduate from Middlesex University.
After a morning visit to Koya University, situated towards Kurdistan-Iraq's Iranian border, I learned that the main road to Raniya was blocked.Outside the cities, where new roads and buildings mark...
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University College London/NottinghamOff with their headsScientists have created an interactive website based on Lewis Carroll's Wonderland stories to help children learn about the brain. The...
• The "sea of rage" promised by anarchists before last week's student protest turned into something of a damp squib, with police matching or outnumbering demonstrators. The press treated the event...
As a cancer survivor, Sally Feldman has been a research object and participant
Plum role - Leader, researcher, teacher, mentor: professor, who do you think you are?