Juke Box Britain
Andrew Blake discovers that the UK had its own distinctive youth culture before rock'n'roll arrived
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The Liberal Project and Human Rights: The Theory and Practice of a New World Order
The Liberal Project is unique in its contextualisation of the global human rights regime in "an evolving international society of sovereign states", a society itself underpinned by liberal...
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The Canon. Childhood Psychosis: Initial Studies and New Insights. By Leo Kanner
On my first day at the university library, I found this collection of the papers of Leo Kanner. I have never let it go. Kanner, Austrian by birth, was appointed in 1930 as the first head of an...
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The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum
Johan Franzén is disturbed by America's failure to protect Iraq's historical artefacts during the war
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A Revolution in Taste: The Rise of French Cuisine 1650-1800
French cuisine underwent a dramatic transformation during the early modern period. All kinds of new products became available: potatoes, pumpkins and turkeys from the New World; chocolate, coffee and...
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The Grown-Ups' Book of Risk
James T. Crouse considers the dangerous world of aviation, where disaster is only ever a whisker away
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A Tale of Two Monasteries: Westminster and Saint-Denis in the Thirteenth Century
Living in the information age, when we can know (or find out) almost anything we want to about public figures, it is hard to conceive of the challenges that face the medieval historian - even when...
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The English Virtuoso: Art, Medicine, and Antiquarianism in the Age of Empiricism
Look up the word "virtuoso" in the Oxford English Dictionary, and you will find an unusual admission that the various senses of the word are particularly difficult to discriminate. The first meaning...
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Women and Enlightenment in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Isobel Grundy enjoys an unusual history of the growth of feminist debate and the notion of society
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EDUCATION- Academic Evaluation: Review Genres in University SettingsEdited by Ken Hyland, professor of applied linguistics in education, Institute of Education, and Giuliana Diani, tenured researcher...
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Cancer research portal will benefit researchers
'Resource catalogue' will offer access to multiple data sources. David Schley reports
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Grant winners
ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCILSeven new projects have been awarded funding under the AHRC's Research Networking Scheme. The financial backing has been provided to encourage the discussion and...
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Thames Valley University - Twitter to the rescue
A university has launched a new Twitter profile that aims to help would-be students who have fallen short of their expected grades to find a place to study. Thames Valley University's Clearing Guru...
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University of Bath - Stem-cell alternative
The number of animal experiments conducted by researchers investigating motor neurone disease could be cut. A project led by Vasanta Subramanian, lecturer at the department of biology and...
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Cardiff University - Swaagatam in the hillsides
An agreement has been signed offering budding journalists from India the chance to develop their skills with a Welsh university. The deal between Cardiff University and the Asian College of...