Charles Rennie Mackintosh: A Biography
Another book on Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928), the Glasgow-born architect, painter and designer, may seem superfluous, but this new substantial volume, graced with superb colour plates by...
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Published this Week
(?) = Review forthcomingARTS AND DESIGN- Picasso and Apollinaire: The Persistence of MemoryBy Peter Read, professor of French, University of Kent. University of California Press, £24.95. ISBN...
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Book of the week: The Wind from the East
Beneath the political theory, the future: Tim Unwin asks whether it is still too soon to tell what May '68 meant
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When Doctors Kill - Who, Why and How
Lloyd Bradley finds this eclectic trawl through the profession's alleged killers a lot to stomach
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A Short History of Celebrity
While Leo Braudy's history of fame, The Frenzy of Renown, began in antiquity with specific reference to the self-publicising strategies of Alexander the Great, Fred Inglis, in A Short History of...
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The Canon: The Hanging Tree: Execution and the English People 1770-1868. By V.A.C. Gatrell
I was a postgraduate when I read V.A.C. Gatrell's utterly gritty - and illustrated! - account of public hangings as a social and political ritual enacted over and over under England's "bloody code"....
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Cake: A Global History
Robert Appelbaum savours a small remembrance of gateaux past and is left hungry for more
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African American Writers and Classical Tradition
In African American Writers and Classical Tradition, William Cook and James Tatum, professors emeriti of English and African American studies and of Classics, respectively, analyse the influence of...
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Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616
In a recent interview for Times Higher Education, the world's foremost Shakespearean, Stanley Wells, distances himself from the literary theorists: "I ... see myself as a sort of populariser. I have...
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Imperial College London - Return of the Silurian blob
An ancient creature of the deep has been revealed by scientists at Imperial College London. They have developed a 3D model of the only known fossilised specimen of a creature, called Drakozoon, which...
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Harper Adams University College - Food for thought
Four postgraduate scholarships, worth £1,000 each, have been launched by Harper Adams University College. They are open to graduates hoping to study estate and land management, farm and agri-business...
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The Open University - Be there, or be somewhere else
A conference held entirely in the virtual world of Second Life will look at issues including teaching and learning in the computer age. An Open University expert on education in Second Life, Anna...
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University of Reading - Penguin paradigm
The role Penguin paperbacks played in revolutionising publishing is the subject of research to mark 75 years since the first books in the format were released. Nicola Wilson, a postdoctoral research...
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Aberystwyth University - Welsh on the move
Welsh-speaking academics have developed a new application to help people learn the language while on the move. An app for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch designed by computer scientists Chris Price...
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University of Liverpool - Joint first
The first students to graduate from a UK university's joint-venture campus in China have picked up their degrees. A ceremony was held in China for graduates of Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University,...