Hermits and Recluses in English Society, 950-1200
The simple life of the hermit was a surprisingly complex business, Helen Castor discovers
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What If Derrida Was Wrong about Saussure?
The three books of Jacques Derrida's annus mirabilis, 1967 - L'Écriture et la difference, La voix et le phénomène and De la grammatologie - along with much of his work of the following decade, depend...
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Thinking in an Emergency
It is said that there are only seven different plots available to the storyteller, and people coping with crises is the basis for several (if not all) of these. The dramatic storytelling that forms a...
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The New North: The World in 2050
Steve Yearley is intrigued by a vision of an Arctic circle of nations benefiting from climate change
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Losing the Race: Thinking Psychosocially about Racially Motivated Crime
A few pages into this book and an old Punch cartoon came to mind: two (white) yokels leaning on a gate, watching another (white) male. The caption? Something along the lines of: "'Ere's a stranger -'...
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Radical Religion in Cromwell's England: A Concise History from the English Civil War to the End of the Commonwealth
Arch-conservatives such as Lewis Namier and A.L. Rowse could never understand why other historians wasted their time on the patently obvious losers of history and the "lunatic fringe", rather than...
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Turkey: A Short History
A historical narrative about Turkey is impressive but lacks a framework, warns M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
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One Nation Under Surveillance: A New Social Contract to Defend Freedom Without Sacrificing Liberty
Has the long, uneven crawl towards liberty that began with the Magna Carta come to an end? Much post-9/11 "everything has changed" writing claims that it has. This results either from the dirty hands...
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Social Anthropology and Human Origins
The study of human origins has, apparently, a big problem. A massive, unspoken problem, lurking like a veritable herd of elephants in the room. Or to use a metaphor more appropriate to this book, a...
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Land of the free, home of the persistent gender pay gap
Female scholars are still fewer in number, lower in status and less well paid. Sarah Cunnane reports
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Clash of the centuries
Trinity College Dublin staff follow ancient traditions in the election of their head, but one voter fears their loss as the state encroaches
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Ranks for Nature and Science by citation impact
Ranks for %3Ci%3ENature%3C/i%3E and %3Ci%3EScience%3C/i%3E by citation impactData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators, 2000-10FieldNature rankNature papersCitation...
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Banking on doubling foreign enrolments is 'unbelievable' aim
Universities are relying on unrealistic targets for overseas income, it is claimed. John Morgan reports
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Private colleges threaten legal action to challenge crippling visa policy
The government faces possible legal action by independent colleges that claim changes to the student visa system are discriminatory and risk crippling their businesses.
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UCU plans fresh strikes over USS
Union bid to expose hard-line v-cs who refuse to call for talks on pensions, writes John Morgan