Household Servants in Early Modern England
In this new survey of well mapped if politically contentious terrain, R.C. Richardson sets out fresh and important queries. Why has the history of household service recently become fashionable via...
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ARTS AND DESIGN- Between Art and Anthropology: Contemporary Ethnographic PracticeBy Arnd Schneider, professor of social anthropology, University of Oslo; and Christopher Wright, lecturer in...
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Book of the Week: The Moment of Caravaggio
Alex Danchev takes a thrilling ride that immerses the reader in the work of Caravaggio but bypasses his infamous personal life
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The Reformation of the English Parish Church
On the eve of the Reformation, Lucy Wooding is struck by the evidence of popular piety
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Sophistication: A Literary and Cultural History
'Sophistication' eludes definition, and yet provocatively invites us to pursue, capture and possess it." So Faye Hammill begins her fascinating and engaging study of the je ne sais quoi of...
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The Canon: Outwitting the Gestapo by Lucie Aubrac
In this, the 70th anniversary year of Charles de Gaulle's appeal to the French people to continue their fight against the occupying Germans, it is timely to review one of the most important books...
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DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education
Francisco Ramirez sizes up a bold bootstrap-and-technology bid to fix the 'broken' US academy
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Who will speak up for languages?
These are testing and paradoxical times for universities' modern languages departments. A significant number have closed in recent years; others have been hacked to the bone, nearing the point of...
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Wide web of best practice
In your article "Deciphering the code" (19 August) you provided a (somewhat confusing) league table of the best-performing institutional websites as judged by a group of sixth-formers. While the...
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Shining a light on NGOs
Matthew Reisz ("Criticism of universities has provoked a sharp response", 26 August) mischaracterises NGO Monitor.As is clear from our publications and website, NGO Monitor is a highly credible...
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STEM needs more branches
I have been enjoying the articles about STEM in your magazine. When I first saw the acronym, I interpreted it spontaneously as referring to science, technology, English and mathematics, until I...
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Proxy strengths may vary
Phil Baty (World University Rankings column, 19 August) tells us that citations data are "widely accepted as a strong proxy for research quality" and they "will have a high weighting" in the Times...
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Fair winds ahead
The potential for up to 50,000 new jobs in the offshore wind energy sector is welcome news indeed, and it will of course require the necessary skills to fill this tremendous number of opportunities...
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It's discrimination, full stop
Does anyone else find the phrase "reverse discrimination" somewhat offensive and patronising ("A straight case of discrimination? Lawsuits come in all shades for US institutions", 26 August)?...
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Science needs effective PR
Zoë Corbyn's article "Trial by error" (26 August) depressingly restates the same sterile arguments made too many times in the past 30 years. Researcher versus media disagreements will continue until...