Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin
No one doubts that the fate of the populations of the European borderlands between Poland and Russia in the age of total war was an atrocious one. Tens of millions died; not just in the barbaric...
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Diary
StockholmNasa - A Human AdventureThe Tekniska Museet (Sweden's National Museum of Science and Technology), founded in 1936, offers "an exciting journey from the infancy of industry to grand visions...
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The Pick - After Sebald: Place and Re-Enchantment
Credit: Patience (After Sebald)/Grant GeeAfter Sebald: Place and Re-EnchantmentAldeburgh, SuffolkThey sound like an unlikely coupling.W.G. Sebald (1944-2001), for many years professor of European...
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Our vice-chancellor's on the job - official
"Not our vice-chancellor." That was the forthright response of Ted Odgers to the assertion by Tim Wilson, the outgoing vice-chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, that "a vice-chancellor's...
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David Bradby, 1942-2011
David Bradby was an "incredibly ethical" scholar with a "dry wit" who spent his academic career working to promote the study of non-English theatre.He was born on February 1942 and studied modern...
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TV review: Hattie
Was Hattie Jacques' passion for her driver simply a response to her own self-loathing, asks Gary Day
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Film review: Biutiful
Philip Dodd finds Javier Bardem the pivotal centre of a film about our inescapable mortality
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The Wal-Mart ethos attracts few buyers among US lecturers
Staff chafe but administrators press on with efforts to instil consumer focus. Jon Marcus writes
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What happens in Vegas
...is cheer and courtesy, says Sally Feldman, and we could do with a little here
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Odds and quads
This wedding dress and these accessories, made entirely of glass fibre, were worn by Helen Nairn Munro on the day she married W.E.S. Turner in 1943.
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Research intelligence - Slow train coming
The sciences may be embracing open access, but the humanities remain cool to the idea. Paul Jump investigates
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Arguments over space
A tumultuous exhibition places debates about sculpture's position and possibilities in sharp relief, finds Alex Danchev
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From where I sit - Where passion trumps technology
With the new academic year in Australia set to start in a few weeks, I am savouring a time of quiet contemplation before the madness begins. Naturally, I think about fresh strategies for teaching...
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A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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The Week in Higher Education
He may be known as "Two Brains", but universities minister David Willetts has always relied on four eyes - until now. Mr Willetts has shed his spectacles thanks to laser eye surgery and on 20 January...